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Meals in Czech school canteens often have insufficient nutritional quality, which has a negative impact on children''s health. Teaching children to healthy eating habits remains an untapped teaching potential. Currently, about 10% of children with specific dietary needs are excluded from school catering. The whole system has an excessive ecological footprint - about 96 million meals are thrown away in canteens each year and also because of the high animal food content and carbon footprint. It is evident that the school catering system offers a huge opportunity to improve the health of children and gives the chance to make our education more sustainable. Examples from a number of EU countries show that school canteens can work differently.