A Budget and Nutrition-aware Mobile Application Featuring Food Menu Generation and Monitoring for the School Feeding Programme in Bangladesh

The school feeding program is regarded as one of the effective solutions to solve the malnutrition problem and primary school educations dropout issue. Hence, to run the school feeding program effectively, a budget and nutrition-aware food menu generation scheme is required along with proper monitoring, students feedback, and real-time attendance facilities. At present, the existing related works related to mobile application development for school feeding programs do not consider a budget and nutrition-aware food menu generation, real-time attendance system, evidence attachment of the distributed foods to ensure monitoring, students feedback regarding the program, and the donation facility at the same time. To tackle the existing challenges, this paper presents a budget and nutrition-aware mobile application featuring food menu generation and proper monitoring for the school feeding program in Bangladesh. By using our proposed application, an authorized teacher can select the best possible food menu for students by verifying budget, nutrition, choices, and cost, and send evidence to the higher authorities regarding distributed food number, food nutrition value, and cost. Moreover, the students can give feedback to the authority regarding the school feeding program. Our evaluation results show that more than 80% of users are satisfied with the proposed system.