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Healthy Nutrition

Nutrition counseling in the workplace often fails because it tries to do too much at once: dietary overhauls, calorie counting, meal-prep instructions. Nutrition info works differently – small, practical for everyday life, without prohibitions.

What a weekly tip can do better than a nutrition seminar A well-placed nutrition tip – as a short poster in the kitchen, a paragraph in the internal newsletter, a short video on the intranet – reaches people at the exact moment food decisions are made: at lunch, when reaching for a snack, while shopping for the next day. No seminar can do that. Providing knowledge in that moment, rather than setting rules, activates self-determination instead of resistance.

Which topics actually land Not 'Eat less sugar,' but 'Why does sugar make you tired at 3 p.m.?' Not 'Eat more vegetables,' but 'These five ingredients make a lunch sandwich truly filling.' Concrete, explanatory, without a moralizing tone. The best nutrition info answers a question employees already had – and leaves them feeling smarter for having read it.

How to put it in place

  1. 1
    Ist-Situation prüfen: Wie sieht das Kantinen- oder Verpflegungsangebot aktuell aus, gibt es gesunde Optionen?
  2. 2
    Gespräch mit Kantinenbetreiber oder Caterer suchen, um mehr ausgewogene Gerichte und Wasser-/Obstangebote zu vereinbaren
  3. 3
    Ernährungsberaterin und Termin für einen Koch-Workshop anfragen
  4. 4
    Neue Angebote vorstellen – z.B. gesündere Menülinie, kostenloses Obst, Wasserspender
  5. 5
    Ernährungsberatung und Koch-Workshop ankündigen und zur Anmeldung einladen
  6. 6
    Betonen, dass es um Genuss und einfache Alltagstipps geht, nicht um Verbote
  7. 7
    Gesündere Optionen dauerhaft im Angebot verankern und gut sichtbar platzieren
  8. 8
    Koch-Workshop und Ernährungsberatung durchführen und Terminreihen anbieten
  9. 9
    Kleine Impulse streuen – z.B. Rezept der Woche oder Obstkorb im Pausenraum
  10. 10
    Rückmeldung einholen: Werden die gesünderen Optionen angenommen, was wünscht sich das Team?
  11. 11
    Mit Kantine oder Caterer die Verkaufszahlen der neuen Gerichte auswerten
  12. 12
    Erfolgreiche Angebote fest ins Sortiment übernehmen und weitere Impulse planen

What you need

Effort
half a day
Cost
with budget
Setup
240 min
  • Daily touchpoint
  • Visible change
  • Team building

Eligible for funding: up to €600 tax-free

As part of a structured workplace health process, this measure is tax-free under § 3 no. 34 of the German Income Tax Act (EStG) up to €600 per employee per year — BGF-Kompass supplies the process. Certified offers (e.g. from Upfit) are additionally subsidised by statutory health insurers under § 20b SGB V.

Health-insurer funding & tax: how to apply →

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Contributes to

Establish healthy food offerings

Measure the impact with

Ernährungs-Puls (Kurzbefragung)

Action field

Nutrition

A fitting occasion

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BGF-Kompass covers German workplace health promotion (BGF): funding paths, figures and legal references (e.g. § 20b SGB V, § 3 No. 34 EStG, the statutory-health-insurer prevention guidelines) apply to Germany.