Food is not just one of the pleasures in life, but properly choosing food keeps our health and reduces the risk of various diseases such as childhood diabetes, obesity, behavioral disorders, etc. Therefore, it is important to adhere to the principles of a healthy eating. Food is divided into six groups based on the presence of certain nutrients: meat, fish, eggs; milk and dairy products; fruits and vegetables; fat and candy. Healthy dough diet ensures optimum intake of vitamins, liquids, minerals and calories, and optimum fat, carbohydrate and protein ratio. My Plate serves as a guide to preparing healthy and balanced meals. Half of the plate should consist of fruits and vegetables, more than a quarter should be cereals, and the rest of the plate proteins. Children’s proper nutrition consists of five main meals (meal before breakfast, breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner) and they should consume food on a daily basis from different categories taking into account the proportions, avoid sweet drinks, restrict intake of milk and dairy products, drink lots of water, use healthy herbal oils and deal with some physical activity. Parents and the school have the most important role in these eating habits of children. They should provide children of the earliest age with a various and balanced diet that is crucial to their proper growth and development and to inform them about the principles of healthy eating to help children create healthy habits for the future. Children spend most of their time at school, so I have been researching several elementary school meals in Požega to see which food children are eating and whether the school kitchen adhere to the national guidelines of proper nutrition.