Free Taste Lessons in the classroom

Three lessons have been developed for Trommel zonder Rommel for the early years, middle years and upper years. With these lessons, you can draw attention to healthy lunchboxes at your school at the start of the new school year.

The three lessons

Early years

What do you, as a teacher, eat for lunch? And what do the pupils eat? Using an example lunch, you will look at which foods help you grow and which foods are treats.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Lesson duration: 40 minutes

Middle years

The pupils will work on a number of lunch food swaps and use the sandwich builder to come up with new lunch recipes for their lunchboxes.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Lesson duration: 50 minutes

Upper years

The pupils will work with the Wheel of Five and look at which products from the lunchbox are included in the Wheel of Five and which are not. They will finish with a fun quiz!

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Lesson duration: 70 minutes

Create an account on Chef!

If you would like to use the Trommel zonder Rommel lessons, you first need to create a free account on the Chef! teaching portal.

This is easy to do in three steps:

1. Go to Chef! via www.voedseleducatie.nl.

2. Enter your details and link your school.

3. Verify your account via your inbox.

When you log in to your account on Chef!, you can filter by the Lunch theme under Offers. Here, under Lessons, you will find the three Trommel zonder Rommel lessons.

Trommel zonder Rommel initiative

Through the Trommel zonder Rommel initiative, parents are encouraged to provide healthy food and drinks for their children to take to school, so that children can make the most of their day.

If your school considers healthy food important, Trommel zonder Rommel can be a useful tool for informing parents and carers about healthy food. Providing information is one of the ways to involve parents and carers in what the school is doing about nutrition. A brochure has also been developed for this purpose.

The Trommel zonder Rommel initiative was created through a collaboration between GGD ZHZ, JOGG Zuid-Holland Zuid, Jong JGZ and the Netherlands Nutrition Centre. GGD West-Brabant and JOGG Breda are also participating. In the JOGG municipalities, the initiative is brought to people’s attention. Lidl Nederland is also giving it national attention.

Lidl is a partner of the Food Education Platform, in which government, businesses, academia (WUR), education and civil society organisations work together in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) on objective education about food and nutrition for children. Two educational programmes developed by the Food Education Platform are Taste Lessons and Taste Missions.