Free school meals provide support to vulnerable families in the Republic of Ireland. Funding is allocated as part of an anti-poverty strategy. An investigation was carried out to discover if the school meal could be used to provide nutritious scratch-cooked food as well as providing opportunities for increased socialisation and pedagogy. Food affects students in a myriad of ways and schools are in a unique position to guide what and how young people eat. This article draws on data from an ethnographic study in an inner city Dublin school. The school recently had a scratch-cooking canteen embedded within it. Using a case study methodology, this paper investigates whether this type of canteen can lead to the school becoming a more food literate entity by building a scaffolding that can facilitate a greater knowledge of food throughout the school, increased interest in tasting new foods and spaces for socialisation over a meal.

免费校餐为爱尔兰共和国的弱势家庭提供支持。资金分配作为反贫困战略的一部分。进行了一项调查，以发现学校膳食是否可用于提供营养丰富的手抓食物，以及是否为增加社会化和教学法提供机会。食物以多种方式影响学生，而学校在指导年轻人吃什么和如何吃方面处于独特的地位。本文借鉴了都柏林市中心一所学校的民族志研究数据。学校最近在其中嵌入了一个临时烹饪食堂。本文使用案例研究方法，调查了这种类型的食堂是否可以通过建造一个可以促进整个学校对食物有更多了解的脚手架，使学校成为一个更具食物素养的实体，