A dimension within Healthy School Meals
This theme focuses on the importance of nutrition and healthy diets for children's overall health and well-being.
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Milk, paneer, lentils for children's health.
— Chanda · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Milk, bread, and lentils are beneficial for keeping children healthy.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
If children are given food like Kangu, Jannasua in school, their health will be good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
To keep children healthy, pigeon pea lentils and a good amount of spinach.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
If our children are given food, their health will be good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
If rice gruel, potato, etc., are given to children, their weight will increase, and their health will be good.
— Basanti · Nayagarh, Odisha
Nutritious food should be used in children's meals, and they should be given eggs and lentil meals once a week so that children can become strong.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh
Pulses, porridge, and milk are nutritious food for children, and the government should make these available to children at all times.
— Chanda
If school children are given foods like ragi, foxtail millet, pearl millet, and kodo millet three days a week, their health will be good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Children will remain healthy by eating spinach and goat's milk.
— Chanda · Baghauri, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
School children will have good health if nutritious food is provided in their midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
If children are given millet and tribal food two days a week in school midday meals, their health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Children's health will improve if they are given cereal-based food for their midday meal. Giving cereal-based food will maintain good health.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
If food like ragi, suva, and millet is given to school children for two days a week in their mid-day meal, their health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Nutritious food for children is tur dal and goat's milk. Nutritious food for children is tur dal and goat's milk.
— Chanda
If traditional food is given to children in midday meals, their health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
Giving millet and ragi-based food to school children twice a week will keep them healthy.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
If children are given initial cooked food twice a week, their health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
If traditional foods are given for lunch, children's health will be very good.
— Basanti · Nayagarh, Odisha
Providing millet-based food to children two days a week in their midday meal will keep them healthy.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Nutritious food should be given to local children.
— Bijayalaxmi sabar · Khilapadar, Rayagada, Odisha
If local food is provided to school children in their mid-day meal, their health will be good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Spinach greens, goat's milk, banana, cow's milk, and lentils are all good for children's nutrition, for their health, and for their brains.
— arun raja · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
It is nutritionally active from herbs. Feeding it can improve children's health.
— ANIL KUMAR · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
If traditional food is provided to children in our school, they will become healthy and strong.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Our children will remain healthy if they are given millet food twice a week.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
If traditional food is given as a midday meal to school children, they will maintain good health.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
Sago, spinach juice, and goat's milk are nutritious food for children.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Providing traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal will keep them healthy.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
If we give traditional food to school children for lunch, they will remain healthy.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
Balanced and nutritious food should be provided in ragi (marwa) flour to promote the mental and physical development of children.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
As nutritious food, we should include milk and eggs in children's school meals so that children can get complete nutritional food.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Beetroot and spinach are nutritious food for children.
— Chanda
Egg and milk can be included in the food to provide nutritious meals to children in anganwadis and schools.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Respected Guruji, if this food is consumed, it will have a good effect on the physical and mental well-being of children.
— RUDRA PRASAD BAG · Jagānpadar, Nuapada, Odisha
This is nutritious food. Papaya vegetable, spinach greens, and drumstick vegetable are excellent. This will keep children healthy and strong.
— Chanda · Baghauri, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
If children are given traditional cooked food two days a week, their health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Giving traditional food to school children for lunch will keep them healthy.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Nutritious food for children, such as Darua dal, is provided at school.
— Chanda
Include drumstick and spinach vegetable in the mid-day meal so that children's physical development will occur and they will get nutrition.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.
By incorporating local, traditional grains like ragi and millet into school lunch programs, communities can significantly improve children's health and well-being.
By embracing our ancestral foods, language, and traditions, we can nourish our children and strengthen our community's identity and well-being.
Our community advocates for the integration of traditional, locally sourced foods into public programs to nourish children and preserve cultural heritage for future generations.
We ensure our children's well-being and cultural continuity by teaching them about the forest's bounty and the richness of our ancestral language and traditions.
