The junior high school students in Suzuka city in Mie prefecture brought their box lunch from home in 2005, but some students could not prepare lunch for some reason. Therefore, the Suzuka city board of education provided box lunch made by company such student as the child care support from May, 2005 to April, 2015. The registered dietitian who is a staff of Suzuka city managed making box lunch corresponding to school lunch standards or similar standards. It was important to make box lunch attractive by devising content of it, since the attractiveness of it for student must affect on the utilization rate of it. As the city board of education did not have a track record of box lunch menu for student at that time, we founded basic menus that aimed for a taste that gives us a generally positive opinion and as a result, we were able to make lunch boxes for our purpose. After that, the registered dietitian developed various menus such as ″Warm Noodle Menu ″, and was able to establish a lunch service that is easy and familiar for student to use, so that fulfilled the function as child care support. We will report how we struggled with this effort and offer the reference material for doing lunch service or similar services.

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We examined important elements for continuous support from the cases of dietary support or activities for preschool children with looking dietary issues of school children. We selected cities and towns that are carrying out support activities in cooperation with organization for preschool children (health centers, nursery schools, etc.) and organization for school aged children (elementary schools etc.), and conducted an interview survey. The voice data of the contents of the statement was verbalization, and the activity name, aim, target and contents were organized. After that, we extracted indicators considered to be important in both preschool and school age.　 Seven activities cases were obtained. There were activities from nutrition consultation at health check-up, activities to improve the problems of school lunch after entering elementary school, education for appropriate amount of meal developed by the city, and activities to promote Shokuiku. The important indicators included "reduction in picky eating ", " understanding of proper amount of meal ", "increase of vegetable intake ", "understanding of a balance diet ", "decrease of those who skipped breakfast " and "increase of those who enjoyed meal ".

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