Gluttony and education of the senses became part of the body practices that the school formed at the end of the 19th century from catholic rules that domina-ted the town’s moral education. Discourses on diet and the ur-gency to control one’s diet were written, appropriate and put into circulation by doctors, biologists, pedagogues and priests who took this knowledge as a clear way for getting into the Modern Age. The article explores the last decades of the 19th century, the first of the 20th century through the use of press documents, variety magazi-nes and publications specialized in education and pedagogy, that show regularities in the child’s dietary practices in school.