Food with purpose
Food is about community and conversation over meals, created from quality ingredients.
Our fantastic kitchen team takes great pride in serving tasty folk high school meals. Most dishes are prepared from scratch to ensure students and course participants enjoy nutritious meals made with fresh, seasonal ingredients.
Organic produce and sustainability are key focuses, and our kitchen holds the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration’s “Organic Dining Label” in silver. This means that 60-90% of the food and beverages purchased and used are organic.
The kitchen focuses on using Danish ingredients when in season. For example, the Danish apple season doesn’t go unnoticed by the kitchen. And apples can actually be picked right from Engelsholm’s own garden.
About four times a week, lunch consists exclusively of vegetarian dishes, while fish is served about once a week.
The kitchen team prioritizes variety, so throughout the semester, you can enjoy different flavors and dishes. New ideas are always welcome, and students are encouraged to share thoughts through idea sheets or by contacting the kitchen team directly.
Allergens and Special Dietary Requirements
The kitchen handles allergens and special diets with care. Please inform us about allergens and special dietary requirements in the registration form.
Please note that there may be certain limitations for gluten-free diets, as the kitchen uses the same utensils and facilities where flour dust may be present.
If you have special needs due to celiac disease or other sensitivities requiring your food to be prepared without flour dust or separate from other dishes, please contact us before registration.
Upon arrival, you can always discuss with the kitchen how we can best accommodate your needs. It’s also possible to change your diet during your folk high school stay. This just needs to be arranged with the kitchen.
Our meals
Breakfast
Breakfast consists of various dairy products, porridge, our own delicious freshly baked sourdough bread with cheese, jam, breakfast cereals, and fruit.
Lunch
On weekdays, we serve hot food for lunch. This can range from soup, vegetarian and meat dishes to fish, always served with accompanying vegetables.
Dinner
Dinner can be rye bread with cold cuts, pasta dishes, soups and similar items, which we supplement with leftovers from other meals.
Snacks
In addition to the main meals, there is fruit, bread or cake served with coffee during the morning, afternoon and evening breaks.
Weekends
A late breakfast is served in the morning. Lunch is typically a cold dish like rye bread with cold cuts, sandwiches, or pasta salad. In the evening, a hot dish is served, with dessert on Saturday nights.
Inputs and fun suggestions
Theme weeks
The kitchen loves to arrange theme weeks where lunch is adapted to the week’s theme. Examples of themes can be Grandma’s Cooking, Moroccan, Italian, or Mexican. If anyone has ideas for new themes, the kitchen always welcomes them with pleasure.
Popular dishes
If you ask our food artists whether the students have any favorite dishes, the answer is a clear “Yes!”
Across all groups, there are some popular dishes that offer great variety and choices: build-your-own sandwich, burger, tacos, chili sin carne with various sides, and salmon lasagna with spinach. It’s fantastic when both new and traditional dishes capture the students’ hearts.
Ideas
The kitchen is always open to suggestions, whether for specific dishes or fun ideas. Sometimes students take charge of evening menus, participate in cooking events like sushi making, or even host a baking competition. You can also borrow the kitchen for cake baking – just ask first.
Organic and Sustainability
Organic
It’s important for us to serve delicious, tasty dishes to our students and course participants, and we naturally focus on having a large proportion of organic ingredients. Therefore, we are incredibly proud to have received the “Silver Organic Cuisine Label” from the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, which means that 60-90% of all food and beverages we purchase are organic. We achieve this by purchasing ingredients according to the following principles:
- All bread, potatoes, root vegetables, pasta, rice, dairy products and eggs are organic
- Pork and beef, as well as most of our poultry, are organic
- We have various types of organic specialty beer
- We use Anton’s Juice, which is an organic juice with a wide range of flavor variations
- We primarily offer organic wines
- We collaborate with Danish fruit and vegetable growers through our supplier when Danish fruits are in season
- We mainly cook seasonal food, as ingredients are at their peak in taste and nutrition
- We use Hørkram as our supplier as they are market leaders in both organic and conventional ingredients
- Our coffee is fair trade and organic
Sustainability
A sustainable focus is a natural part of the kitchen’s weekly meal planning. For dinner, you might therefore experience leftovers from today’s or yesterday’s lunch being served.
We also have a strong focus on reducing food waste by using larger portions of ingredients and reducing waste overall.
We utilize ingredients in the best possible way – for example, by making pesto from carrot tops or using the entire broccoli stalk instead of just the florets. Even our coffee grounds are passed on to neighbors who use it as fertilizer in their vegetable gardens.