Essay About Canteen

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What is a canteen? Based on Merriam-Webster Dictionary a canteen is "A store in a camp, school, etc., in which food, drinks, and small supplies are sold”. A canteen serves different kinds of variety of foods to the community. As a transferee student and studying for two semesters here in this school, I have noticed that the Far Eastern University - Diliman needs to have changes in their canteen.

As a college student, I think that the canteen in FEU Diliman lacks nutritional foods for the community. To start off, the canteen serves junk foods to everyone. I have read an article online that talks about Junk foods and based on what I have learned a Junk foods contains high levels of calories from fat and sugar and has little fiber, proteins, vitamins and minerals. For me, a school should not be selling these kinds of foods since junk foods does not give any health benefits and it just makes the person gets sick from eating too much amount of junk foods regularly. Most especially to grade school and high school students, the canteen in the school …show more content…

The community in the canteen are very strict with the non-biodegradable, biodegradable and recyclable waste bins. All the student body follows this rule. Through this, our community is becoming earth friendly and the segregation of trashes are good. It can help everyone to dispose their trashes properly and knowledgeable to where they are supposed to dispose their wastes. Also, FEU Diliman canteen offers breakfast, lunch and snacks to everyone. They have variety of foods to choose from. The thing that is nice about the canteen in school is that they serve Filipino dishes as well during snack time. They serve variety of foods that most Filipino community likes. I have noticed that even the foreigners at the school likes the Filipino dishes that are offered in school and they order it often when it is served and

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