Sitting at home, parents still see images of what their children eat at school.

A new student's lunch was sent by the school to the Department of Education and Training of Thu Duc City.

The principal sent pictures of the meals and meals to the Department of Education and Training.

To strengthen management and improve the quality of boarding meals for students at schools, in addition to increasing regular and surprise inspections of food suppliers, communal kitchens, etc., Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City has an additional solution requiring all school principals to send photos of meals and meals to the Department of Education and Training.

Providing these images will help the Department of Education and Training better understand the quality of the meals provided at the units. At the same time, keeping these images daily is also a channel for comparison with the information about the meals reported.

Not only sending pictures of meals, in recent days, the school has also sent to the Department of Education and Training of Thu Duc City actual pictures of the boarding meal time.

This morning, November 10, speaking with Thanh Nien Newspaper reporter, Mr. Nguyen Thai Vinh Nguyen, Head of the Department of Education and Training of Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City, said: "The schools all agreed and seriously sent pictures of the meals and pictures of the meals to the Department of Education and Training. The units also sent pictures of the meals to the parents' representative committee."

"The management of information and images of meals and boarding meals is assigned to leaders and specialists at all levels; leaders and specialists in charge of boarding and food safety. The workload for all parties will be greater than before, but this approach will help all parties involved become more aware of their responsibility for providing and serving meals to students," emphasized Mr. Nguyen Thai Vinh Nguyen.

Mr. Nguyen cited many pictures of boarding meals sent by school leaders in the area. For example, on November 7, 2023, Dinh Tien Hoang Primary School had fried chicken fillet with garlic butter sauce, cabbage soup with minced pork, stir-fried vegetables, and dragon fruit dessert. An Phu Secondary School sent pictures showing students during lunch.

Several other schools also sent pictures of lunches with white rice, meat cooked with radish, stir-fried squash, spinach soup, sponge cake, etc.

Actual images of boarding meals and boarding meal times have been sent by schools to the Department of Education and Training of Thu Duc City.

Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City has over 160 schools. 6 schools temporarily stopped serving boarding meals last week, but have now resumed serving boarding meals after finding a new meal provider. Previously, the principal sent pictures of the daily boarding meals to the Department of Education and Training via Zalo group. Currently, for convenience, science, and ease of storing pictures of boarding meals, the Department of Education and Training of Thu Duc City created a link called "Boarding lunch" so that leaders of units can send pictures more quickly and conveniently.

Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City is in November - the peak month for surprise inspections of facilities providing meals for boarding students, collective kitchens, canteens, and food services in schools. The education and training sector, together with relevant agencies, is strengthening inspections, rectification, ensuring food safety, and improving the quality of meals for boarding students.

Publish menu, listen to students' opinions

Not only in Thu Duc City, currently schools in districts, towns, and Thu Duc City of Ho Chi Minh City all publicly display their school menus on their school websites. Many schools also update actual images of students' meals every day on the school's fanpage so that parents know what their children eat at school today, whether the rice, salty dishes, stir-fried dishes, desserts, etc. are full and varied or not.

Boarding meal of students at Long Thanh My Primary School, Thu Duc City on November 6 with rice, braised pork and eggs, vegetable soup with minced meat, stir-fried vegetables, and banana for dessert

Parents feel more secure when they are updated with real images of their children's meals and lunchtimes.

As at Vang Anh Kindergarten, District 5, the school said that in order to balance the food cost of 35,000 VND/child/day, including lunch and snacks for young children while still balancing nutrition, the school builds a menu according to the nutrition calculation software for children instructed by the Department of Preschool Education, Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City. Every day, the menu, portions, cost, nutritional composition of protein, fat, sugar, fiber... are entered into the system, the Department of Education and Training, Department of Education and Training can immediately see the school's report, if there is any feedback or suggestion, it can also be done on this system.

At Nguyen Thai Son Primary School, District 3; Nguyen Binh Khiem Primary School, District 1; Dinh Tien Hoang Primary School, District 1… all publicize the boarding menu on the school website. Every day, teachers in charge of boarding and the school board observe the students' boarding meal times, listen to feedback on meals, and with reasonable suggestions, the school and the kitchen will balance and adjust so that students can eat more deliciously and always finish their meals.

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