Using the Eco‐Health approach, a local women's cooperative was paired with a rural school to provide traditional foods to children through a school feeding and nutrition education program. We investigated the effect of this program versus nutrition education alone on nutritional status, breakfast consumption and attitude towards traditional diets. Two elementary schools from the village of Aarsal, Lebanon participated in the study. At baseline and endpoint, height, weight, hemoglobin and breakfast recall were taken. All children received four nutrition education sessions and children from the intervention school received a daily school meal for 4 days/week for 5 months. Qualitative data were collected from meetings with parents. At baseline, stunting, overweight and anemia prevalence were at 8%, 20% and 6%, respectively. There was a significant decrease in anemia prevalence among schoolchildren taking part in the school feeding intervention (p<0.0001). Breakfast consumption habits improved at both schools with a significant decrease in number of children not consuming breakfast (p<0.001). Schoolchildren in the intervention school demonstrated improved attitudes towards traditional diet and healthy lifestyle practices. This school feeding program provides a potentially sustainable local model for school feeding programs in similar rural contexts in countries undergoing a nutrition transition.This research has been funded by Canada's International Development Research Center (IDRC).