Food, health and wellbeing are central concepts in our modern society. These three concepts should be as important to those who works in preschool, where the beginning of lifelong learning is founded.

Therefore we have chosen to examine if the teachers approach to the mealtime in preschool have any impact on a food habit in 5-years-olds.

We have studied two preschools with a different educational orientation, a Waldorf preschool and a traditional Swedish preschool influenced by Reggio Emilia.

Data have been collected through various observations and through group interviews that creates a broad foundation of what we examine.

The result indicates that there are differences in the educators approach to the good meal and a connection between the educators` personal perceptions and the educational orientation. The difference consists of the educators` values, the view of learning, the competent child and the children`s participation in the meal situation.