[School feeding programs for children and adolescents in East Germany (personal observations)]

The percentage of pupils in school feeding in the German Democratic Republic increased in the years from 1965 to 1980 from 26 to about 80. There are given organizational principles, as well as nutritional and financial principles in the school feeding programme in the GDR. On account of own observations there is described the state of school feeding in Leipzig. In this town with about 500000 inhabitants the number of daily produced school lunches is ca 64000 portions. The biggest part of it, ca 47000 portions, is prepared in 7 central kitchens; the rest--ca 17000 portions--is prepared at 40 different kitchens (restaurants, institutional, hotels). There is described the whole organizational--technological system from central potato peeling plants to the school canteens. Three bigger schools (1-12 forms) in Leipzig were visited where the percentage of pupils in milk drinking were: 46,7, 50 and 68,2 and in lunch consumption: 66,3, 84,0 and 85,3.