In order to create and improve proper conditions for organizing high-quality, safe and balanced nutrition in educational institutions, implement effective models and improve food safety conditions, restore and modernize the catering unit using the latest technological processes, improve energy efficiency indicators and comply with the principles of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) system, the optimization and reconstruction of the catering unit of Gymnasium No. 2 in the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odessa region, st. Serhiy Faynblat, 37. On the basis of the specified educational institution, the educational process of Gymnasium No. 6 of the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odessa region, is also carried out in the second shift in a full-time format, thanks to the equipped civil defense structure (shelter), equipped with a distribution line and a dining hall, where the process of feeding students of Gymnasium No. 2 and Gymnasium No. 6 is carried out. Thus, nutrition is provided to students of two primary school institutions - at the expense of a state subvention in the amount of 351 children and a preferential contingent of senior classes (grades 5-11) - at the expense of the local budget, namely: orphans, children deprived of parental care (9 children), children from low-income families (3 children), children with special educational needs (11 children), children with disabilities (7 children), children of internally displaced persons (16 children), children from among the persons defined in Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine "On the status of war veterans, guarantees of their social protection", children one of whose parents died (missing), died while defending the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine (4 children). That is, the modernization and reconstruction of the catering unit of Gymnasium No. 2 will allow children to eat in a balanced way, improve their well-being, increase immunity, and strengthen physical and mental health. It should be noted that work is systematically being carried out among the parent community and students to popularize the culture of healthy eating by publishing information and educational information in local media and on social pages on the Internet.