School lunches from around the world. What do your kids eat? School lunches around the world (14 photos) What schoolchildren eat in different countries

It just so happens that this is the third post about food lately, I promise, I’ll stop there for now. But I just could not get past school lunches. Already the heart ached at the milk, covered with a frozen oily foam, cold eggs with a blue yolk, a slimy omelette and gelatinous porridge, which flops into a plate like a blam and does not cause appetite.

Am I the only one full of such memories of school canteens? Or were children more fortunate in other countries? The project was prepared by a group of photographers from the Associated Press organization.

Everyone knows what people eat in different countries. But everyone knows that school is a special world. And here everything is not the same as in ordinary life. But how exactly? We have collected a whole archive of photos.

Lambersart, France. She is France! Slice of grain bread, salad with celery, orange, sweet donut, rice with salmon, ratatouille. Royal table!

Buenos Aires, Argentina. The children eat Milanesa, chicken fried in eggs and breadcrumbs. And rice for a side dish.

Bamako, Mali. Fried donuts are prepared for children, sometimes they are given rice and meat. But most of the schoolchildren believe that all this is tasteless, and eat at home.

Buenos Aires, Argentina. Another school offers potatoes and pancakes with the same Milanesa.

Havana, Cuba. Children eat rice, chicken nuggets, taro root, pea soup. Bananas and orange juice are served for dessert. I think this is a great breakfast!

Jakarta, Indonesia. Here, too, healthy food is held in high esteem. Rice, meatball soup, tofu (bean curd) and vegetables.

And schoolchildren can buy pies or pancakes with seasoning for 35 kopecks.

Jammu, India. Children carry lunch from home. The composition includes pita bread, stewed turnip and mango.

Jammu, India. Schoolchildren are also given free rice with sugar. Behind him, the students stand in line and eat it along with what they took from home.

Quito, Ecuador. They offer lunch with ham, cheese, tomato and salad. Drink - from cereals. Apple.

In London, children can choose from meals prepared in the school cafeteria. For example, here is one of the standard school lunch rations. Right: Broccoli scrambled eggs, bread, fresh fruit. Left: Broccoli rice, chili sauce, quiche biscuit, banana.

Barcelona, ​​Spain. The cult of healthy eating is instilled from childhood. Children are given vegetable cream soup, fried veal, salad, bread, oranges, bananas. Incredibly delicious! Some people don't eat like that even as adults.

Madrid, Spain. Children eat scrambled eggs, vegetable soup, drink fruit yoghurts and more water.

Nablus, Palestine. Children are given sandwiches to take with them: pita bread stuffed with ground dried thyme, sesame seeds, salted and drizzled with olive oil. The mixture is called zaatar.

Paris, France. Real gourmet food. Stewed pike with green beans and champignons.

Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The kids are trying to buy fast food. There are no lunches as such, so the school principal asks parents to prepare healthy lunches for their children and monitors how they eat right in the classroom. For lunch, they give eggs, chicken meatballs, vegetables, rice, noodles, minced lamb or beef steak. Not all at once, but selectively.

Singapore. A healthy lifestyle has been actively promoted in school canteens, so now every day children are given salads from fresh vegetables and herbs, as well as bread, fruits, juices, barley and beans.

Seattle, USA. Here, children are given fried bread with cheese, corn salad, fresh carrots, applesauce or canned pears, skim milk.

The second breakfast option is a salad with chicken, which is made from nitrate-free hams, whole grain bread, fresh red pepper, peas, beans or corn. Coriander is suggested as a condiment.

The nutrition of children is an important issue, because not only the health of these same children, but also, in a global perspective, the health of the whole nation depends on it. Here and the education of taste, and the establishment of eating habits, and teaching schoolchildren the principles of proper nutrition. It is interesting that in different countries all this is radically different, and a high standard of living does not at all mean the impeccability of school lunches and the approach to the principles of developing children's diets. Let's see what they feed secondary school students in the 12 most famous states of our world.

Iran

By law, all children under 14 in Iran are entitled to a mug of milk, some pistachios, fresh fruit and a biscuit every day. But moms often give them a lunchbox to go. This is rice, tomato and lamb kebab.

South Korea

The school food system in South Korea is one of the best in the world. In the lower large holes, as a rule, soup and a side dish (usually rice) are placed, in the upper holes - salads, seafood, vegetables and fruits. Thin children are given fish oil in measuring spoons. Popular dishes: kimchi, sesame leaves stuffed with rice in honey sauce, potato and pumpkin soup, fritters with green onion, pepper and octopus, cucumber and carrot salad.

Japan

The approach to nutrition is about the same as in South Korea: be sure to have hot soup, rice, some meat, salad and milk. Students are not allowed to bring their own food until they are in high school. Canteens do not have vending machines. Schoolchildren do not eat in the cafeteria. They put on white coats, pick up food and set the table in the classroom.

Great Britain

Fried potatoes, carrots, rice porridge, vegetable salad, fruit and Belgian waffle in chocolate icing. The budget of many schools is limited, so fast food is more often offered to children. Kids love it, it's cheap to make.

USA

This is what lunch looks like in Utah. Peaches, corn, chicken and soup. In American schools, food is different. Often these are fast food and convenience foods that children love: nuggets, french fries, pizza. Parents are more likely to give their kids lunchboxes to school.

Türkiye

Lunch prepared at home for a schoolboy. Rye bread, walnuts, grapes, apple, pomegranate and kefir. Anything that stimulates the brain.

Thailand

Pork in sweet and sour sauce, rice and pudding in banana leaves are on the menu today.

France

Lunch at a school in the west of France. Fish, spinach, potatoes, lettuce, cheese and bread. Considered the main meal of the day. The lunch break lasts from one to two hours. Students are allowed to go home during this period.

Finland

Responsible for the nutrition of schoolchildren. Each child is entitled to snacks during morning and evening classes, as well as lunch. Children have lunch in the dining room, each independently chooses from the proposed variety of dishes. Each school will accommodate if the child has a special diet for health reasons or religious beliefs. In the picture: meatballs with sauce, potatoes, salad, muesli.

Russia

In Russia, children in schools receive free breakfast in the morning from 9.00 to 12.00. Lunches in the afternoon are paid, but it is not always clear where lunch is and where breakfast is. For example, in this sausage - buckwheat porridge and tea.

Hungary

Here the children are well fed. Lunch consists of noodle soup, bean stew with meat and nuts for dessert.

Israel

Fresh fruit, muesli bar, sweets and tortilla sandwiches.

Our small reports are based on the stories of individual families. It is possible that different public schools in the same city will have different menus and prices. However, not too much, according to our informants. And one more thing: we, unfortunately, did not manage to collect all the photos from the #worldmustknowwhatwe series - many children could not take a picture of their breakfast, because they are forbidden to use phones within the walls of the school (and this will one day be the reason for a separate article).

Belarus, Minsk

The menu in the state Belarusian school is not particularly diverse and is replete with dishes of the classic culinary traditions of the USSR, the food is dense and good, Daria, a mother of many children from Minsk, told us. For breakfast, they serve scrambled eggs or mashed potatoes with meatballs, there are cereals (millet, buckwheat, rice), and occasionally casseroles. It is proposed to drink tea, compote, cocoa or a drink made from chicory, which is still familiar to Soviet students. Lunch is no less substantial: soup or borsch, again potatoes with a cutlet or potato pancakes and compote. Breakfasts (15 minutes are allocated for them) go to those who study in the first shift, and lunches (20 minutes each) - to those who are in the second.

The food in the Minsk school cafeteria is more or less tasty, eaters admit, although it all depends on the team of cooks - for example, a year earlier the same dishes in the same school came out much less appetizing. Parents believe that such food, although not the ideal of a healthy diet, is "at least harmless" - the usual "Soviet" option. Until the fifth grade, meals at school are free, then you have to pay 25,000 Belarusian rubles a day (that's a little less than a hundred Russian rubles). With a strong desire, while studying on the first shift, you can also have lunch, but then you will have to pay twice as much.

Ukraine, Dnipro and Kherson

The comment of Ivan, a student from the Dnieper public school, we quote verbatim: "Porridge is still nothing, cabbage is constantly sour, and the cutlet is very salty." In addition, as our commentator admitted, the portions are so modest that the boys steal buns from the girls, which, in turn, the girls' parents are worried about.

At the same time, in the Kherson region, students are more loyal. Despite the fact that dinners are quite monotonous - classic "Soviet" soups, gravy with potatoes, casseroles and compotes - they are considered healthy here. Breakfast is mainly porridge. It should be noted that fruit is rarely served in public schools in Ukraine. Separate billing history. In early 2016, the government canceled free meals for most elementary school students - only certain categories of families remained "benefits". A year earlier, breakfasts for middle and high school students cost an average of six hryvnias (about 15 rubles), and lunches cost ten (25 rubles).

Czech Republic, Varnsdorf

About food in public schools in the Czech Republic (at least in the town of Varnsdorf), Life was told by one of the local students, Marina. According to her, it is not customary to have breakfast in the dining room here - it opens only at noon, and is open until 14:30. Children have breakfast at home or bring snacks with them - most often these are sandwiches, cookies or fruits. Pupils eat only during breaks in the classroom. As for lunch, everything is much more fun here. The menu is very varied. Here they serve dumplings with goulash (national food of the Czech Republic), potatoes with fish fillet or chicken leg, various salads (with chicken meat, with tuna), semolina or rice porridge, lentils with pickles and boiled egg, pea porridge with sausage. According to students, the food in school canteens is delicious. Parents are also happy - they say that everything is useful. One such lunch costs 68 crowns (a little less than 200 rubles), but part of the cost is compensated by the school.

Germany, Bavaria

There are no canteens in German public schools (at least in Bavaria, because each land has its own peculiarities of the education system), said a resident of this country. Accordingly, no breakfast or lunch is offered here. Children bring breakfast with them - in elementary school they are given 10-15 minutes for food before the first break. At each break, in a specially equipped place, they offer to buy different buns, cocoa and juices, sometimes vegetables and fruits are also on sale. In addition, in Bavarian schools, children attending an extension program can be enrolled for lunch. In this case, a subscription is purchased immediately. Lunches are brought daily by a certain company (and they bring them already warmed up). Such a lunch costs 3.30 euros (about 250 rubles). The menu is very simple: for example, pasta with sauce or potatoes with sausage, and sometimes milk sweet rice is offered. According to parents, dinners may not always be healthy, but there are always fruits and vegetables in the diet, and only natural yogurt is given. Water (or other drinks) each child carries with him. By tradition, such a system of school meals in Germany has been practiced since kindergarten: your own breakfast, imported lunch. And in a personal file, you can indicate the features of the diet (if the child is a vegetarian, does not eat pork for religious reasons, or has an allergy). Note that, until recently, schools did not offer food at all: children studied less hours than, say, in Russia, so they ate at home. And only recently the number of lessons has been increased, and now each school solves this issue in its own way, there are no general rules.

Holland, The Hague

In Dutch schools, it is also not customary to feed children with canteen-made breakfasts. Life's interlocutor, Lydia Robertson, who lives with children in The Hague, said that for breakfast, students eat what caring parents put in lunch boxes - some sandwiches, cookies, fruits. According to her, small cafeterias usually operate at schools, but there is such a huge queue during the break that no one wants to stand in it once again. In the cafeteria, you can buy food from a standard set - sandwiches (each one and a half euros - about a hundred rubles), cookies, lemonade, juice, water, tea (about the same one and a half euros). But schoolchildren are given a big break for food - as much as 45 minutes (however, as parents admit, only five of them are spent on food, the rest is spent on football and games with classmates).

There can be no talk of any hot food, says the source of Life: the little ones can get burned, and the older ones are no longer accustomed, it is easier for them to intercept a sandwich. The only exceptions are local Russians, who give children hot food in thermoses.

Italy, Trieste

Life's source in Trieste described school meals in the most detailed way - of course, this is Italian cuisine! According to the mother of a first-grader, the food here is excellent both in kindergarten (once a raw carrot salad was taken into account and is now cooked at home) and at school. Pupils regularly eat products marked "bio", and when choosing fruits and vegetables, they prefer products from local producers. The menu includes vegetable puree soup with couscous, breaded chicken breast and a salad of young beet tops with olive oil. Bread and fruits are also served.

It is important that the menu is seasonal and the set of products changes. According to our interlocutor, who was not too lazy to translate the menu for the week into Russian, the diet is replete with salads from all kinds of greens. Note that children carry breakfast from home, and the school administration strongly recommends not to bring all kinds of desserts in the package. The morning meal takes place in the classroom - beforehand, the children are asked to get napkins brought from home under the cutlery and serve their desk. The food is prepared outside the school (this is done by a whole cooperative responsible for nutrition in educational institutions) and then delivered to places. By tradition, Friday is fish day for children. It is interesting that the children are not given local fish, but mostly cod: firstly, there are fewer bones, and secondly, not a single supplier (suppliers are ordinary fishermen) can provide a single batch of fish in sufficient quantities to feed all the students ( batch splitting is unacceptable from a quality control and standards point of view).

USA, Houston

For lunch in American schools, food is usually served, which is called finger food here - that which is eaten without the use of cutlery. It can be pizza, a hot dog, chicken or fish nuggets, said the mother of one of the students. Be sure to offer fruits or vegetables - sliced ​​apples or carrots. As a drink, students are offered milk with 1-2% fat or cocoa. At the same time, even ordinary schools try to make the food as healthy as possible and as less sweet as possible - they don’t eat sweet yogurts here, and they try to order milk from local farmers.

Under a new state law, children must eat half a cup of fruit or vegetables at lunchtime. Therefore, if the student supplements his main menu with fruits and vegetables, the cost of lunch is reduced. Separately, Life's interlocutor noted that after a meal, all food, without exception, is thrown away, even if the child has not touched it. In public schools, food is simpler, which means cheaper, about two to two and a half dollars per serving (within 150 rubles). The price also depends on the portion size - for younger and older students they are different. An interesting point with paying for food is related to the fact that all those "tables" in school canteens must get special cards and an account that the parent can replenish online. Notification about the imminent end of funds is sent in advance to the mail to parents.

Montenegro, Bar

In schools in Montenegro, buffets work instead of canteens, so the entire "organized" menu is standard sandwiches, rolls and drinks in the form of tea or juice. There are no fruits and vegetables. But, as a resident of the Bar told Life, next to any school there are several cafes or bakeries where high school students are allowed to go during breaks to buy food at lunchtime. Kids, who spend only a couple of hours at school, have enough homemade breakfasts. As for the school buffets, everything is strict here - for the right to work at the school, suppliers first participate in the tender.

With payment, too, is a different story: at the beginning of each month, parents make up an individual menu for the child, choosing from the proposed dishes (all the same croissants, rolls and sandwiches), and pay the bill in advance. The cost of meals is strictly regulated by the Ministry of Education. For example, a bagel costs 50 cents (about 35 rubles) in a store, and 20 cents (14 rubles) in a buffet menu. Children have breakfast in the classroom, food is brought to them in advance here.

Spain, Alicante

Breakfasts are not available in all public schools in Spain - for example, the children of Life's interlocutor carry lunch boxes with them: the youngest gets juice and fruits with vegetables, and the older ones get juice with cookies. Lunch is a completely different matter. This meal is included in the three-hour stay between classes - did you think siesta only applies to shops? It turns out that this tradition is also supported in the field of education: children study for several lessons, after which they break for a siesta, during which they can go home, or you can stay at school - take a walk, work out, play, and kids even sleep. After the siesta, the children go to the rest of the lessons. The lunch menu is monthly handed out to all parents who have paid for the stay of their children at school during the siesta. This service depends on the school and on many other factors, so the price per month varies from 50 to 150 euros, that is, 3,500 - 10,500 rubles (with the majority contributing only a part of this amount - there are various subsidies in the country). The diet necessarily includes fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables, salads. Quite often, lunch includes yogurt, and sometimes even ice cream. Other regular menu heroes include mashed vegetable soups, spaghetti, fish, and stews. The quality of the food that gets on the tables of the students is excellent, because schools are regularly subjected to the strictest checks, as a result of which a “heavy” fine, as our source put it, can be issued.

Russia Moscow

But what about in Russia? The same "Soviet" menu - casseroles and cereals for breakfast, cabbage soup, pasta with meat, compotes - for lunch. Soundly and satisfying - at least in Moscow. For many, there are benefits (up to free meals for elementary school students) and a compensation system.

As one of the schoolchildren, who agreed to tell Life about his impressions from the dining room, notes, a couple of years ago the diet was wider, but neither sugar nor salt was really put in the dishes. “It was especially disgusting to drink unsweetened tea, and drinking this drink from chicory is disgusting, you yourself understand,” he recalls. Now they put not only sugar, but even lemon - about a third of a slice, so in fact there is a lemon, but its presence in a glass does not greatly affect the taste of tea. Parents of children who have graduated from the first four classes pay about a hundred rubles for lunch (depending on the school, those same benefits and circumstances), which, as we see in the photo, includes four dishes.

Canada, Toronto

There is no school canteen as such in Canadian schools, said Olga Moretto. For a meal, either a separate room or a gym is usually allocated. The school has a special organization responsible for the supply of snacks. Parents have two options - to collect breakfasts on their own or order through this organization. In the second case, it is necessary to contact this organization directly, bypassing the school (the contact details are recorded in the child's diary), and decide what the child will eat. There are several menu options - basically these are not hot lunches, but snacks - hot dogs, sandwiches, fruits. In this case, all options are combined in advance: for example, a hot dog, carrot and apple juice or a cheese sandwich, vegetable salad and orange juice.

So many children in Canada are allergic, and therefore most schools have a strict ban on chocolate and products containing nuts - such products cannot be not only included in the general menu, but even brought with you in your own backpack for your own breakfast . “Once my daughter was not allowed to eat a sandwich with chocolate spread brought from home. She ended up hungry,” Olga admitted. For the same reason, it is forbidden to share food - if a child shares a cookie with a friend, then both will be scolded. The price for an organized snack is 5-7 Canadian dollars (about 300 rubles).

My interest in the school lunch menu of the world arose after meeting the blog of a 9-year-old schoolgirl from Scotland Martha Payne which has already become popular all over the world, especially among schoolchildren. Back in April 2012, Marta started a blog about school food NeverSeconds, in which she regularly posted photos of her lunches and reasoning about how healthy they are. After some time, the school principal decided to ban the girl from taking pictures in the canteen, but there was no stopping her: children from all over the world began to send her photos of their school lunches, Martha received more than 10 million views, Scottish parents began to protest against harmful chocolate milk in the school diet , and British newspapers dubbed Martha "the new Jamie Oliver." Now the schoolgirl participates in the Mary's Meal charity program and saves starving children in Malawi, and a book about her and her blog has become a bestseller in England.

And it all started with the fact that Martha took a camera from her father and began to photograph her school lunches. Moreover, she introduced a 10-point rating scale, in the comments to the dishes she described what her portioned lunch consisted of, the taste of the ingredients, whether a hair was found, and even how many pieces would need to be taken from a fork or spoon to eat the entire dish.

1. Scotland.

The first photo was of a slice of pizza and a potato meatball, along with sweet corn and cookies for dessert.

Martha wrote: “The benefit of this blog is that now dad understands why I am hungry when I come home. She also complained about poor satiety: “I'm a growing child and I need to be concentrated during the day, but I can't do it on one meatball. Do any of you think he can?"

On the west coast of Scotland, where Martha lives, standards for school meals vary. Martha, with the permission of her teachers, took pictures of her £2 school lunches and gave them a grade. Says Marta: “When I started posting these photos, I thought only my family and friends would see them, so I was very surprised that so many people are worried about school meals. When I posted pictures of tea on my blog, the number of views exceeded 1 million!

The news of a student being banned from posting photos of her own meals has sparked criticism from bloggers and Martha Payne's father. Petitions were even sent to the school demanding that the ban on photographing lunches in the school cafeteria be lifted. This extraordinary decision of the local authorities was also widely covered by local newspapers.

Hot dog, corn, croquette and dessert.

Local authorities did not take into account the strength and speed of reaction of social networks. Just a couple of days after the ban was introduced, Argyle and Bute County Superintendent Roddy McQuish acknowledged the mistake and ordered the ban lifted. “I changed my mind,” he admitted. “Censorship has no place in our district.”

Authorities have lifted a controversial ruling that banned a nine-year-old student from posting photos of her school lunches on her blog. The Telegraph newspaper writes about this with reference to a high-ranking representative of the district administration.

Potato, pineapple, carrot sticks, pepper, ham and dessert.

By the way, Martha's mother works as a medical practitioner. The girl herself began to write because she was interested in journalism. The girl's father admitted to the press: “I'm shocked. Never thought to attract so much interest."
Since then, Marta has been quietly leading a blog so beloved by many.

Shepherd's pie with minced meat in gravy, fresh cabbage salad, cucumber, cake and melon.

Chicken noodle soup, rice, corn, vegetable spring rolls, milk chocolate shake.

One of Martha's favorite meals: Chicken curry, rice, broccoli, shortbread and ice cream.

Martha with actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

Now consider school lunches from other countries.

2. Finland.

Vegetarian soup with sausage, rye bread with cheese, cucumber and milk.

Braised sauerkraut with lingonberry jam; salad of cabbage, cucumber and grapes; milk.

Salad, curry chicken, served with beans and carrots, pudding, milk.
Here we need a little digression. In Finnish schools, there is no rigid menu - the children themselves choose from several dishes what they want to eat. The task of the teachers is to convince the children that 50 percent of the dinner should be salads and other healthy foods. Since school in Finland starts at the age of 5, the understanding of the “right” food is formed quite early.

Vegetable soup with potatoes, carrots, onions, broccoli and zucchini, rye bread, cheese and tomato.
Another small digression. In Finland the school day is usually short, sometimes up to 12 noon. Therefore, lunch is not so voluminous :)

Fried fish with pesto sauce; potato; salad with watermelon, cucumber and peach; milk.

3. USA.

Spokane, Washington. Cheese, lettuce, turkey, kiwi and cauliflower.

Chicago, Illinois. Spaghetti bolognese, fruits and vegetables.

Austin, Texas. Turkey salad, mashed potatoes, peach pie, iced tea.

Spaghetti, salad, lollipops, chocolate drink.

Atlanta, Georgia. Jewish school. The cost is $5.5. Beef tacos, rice, crispy noodles, hummus, seeds, chicken noodle soup.

San Diego. Chili with bread, salad bar, pineapples and milk.

4. Great Britain.

Canteens have a vegetarian option on the menu (there are many Hindus in schools in the United Kingdom). Usually this peas, baked potatoes, quiche. Option: instead of potatoes, you can have cauliflower with cheese.
For ordinary students, as a rule, - sausage, hamburger or chicken nuggets, salad, apples.

Village of the West Midlands, England. Whole grain bread with lettuce and ham; apple and grapes; a cup of vegetables (tomatoes, radishes, sweet peppers);

5. Japan.

Sendai. Fish, seaweed, rice with tofu and egg, soup, salad with sesame dressing.

Yokohama. Pickled daikon radish, sour plum, konnyaku jelly (um... such a chewy extract from plants, as I understand it), green carrots, beans, garlic, white fish, vegetables and eggs boiled in soy glaze. In general, one burda :)))

Fried fish, dried seaweed, tomatoes, miso soup with potatoes, rice, milk.

Kagoshima. Rice, chicken soup, fried flying fish, steamed vegetables, milk. The cost is $2.9.

Fukushima.

Nagano.

6. China.

Nanning, Guangxi. Soup, pork with rice. The cost is 8 yuan or 0.80 euros.

Shanghai, German school. Sausage with French fries, carrot salad, a piece of cake.

7. Taiwan.

8. Germany.

Frankfurt am Main. Rye-wheat bread with butter, clementine, pomegranate seeds, homemade Turkish meatballs, candies. Cost: about 1.50€ (£1.20).

Rye-wheat bread with butter and gouda bunny cheese, cherry tomatoes and grape-cheese-sticks. Cost: about 1.30€ (£1.04).

Hamm, a city in western Germany. There is no canteen, only a cafe.

9. Israel.

Falafel, pita pieces, yoghurt with cucumber sauce, herbs.

10. Czech.

Vegetable soup with semolina, beef with garlic, served with spinach and potato dumplings, orange.

Vegetable soup with dumplings; fish stew with mashed potatoes, peas and tomatoes.

Vegetable soup, Mexican rice with beans and corn, canned pineapples and peaches, lemon water.

Beef soup with noodles and carrots; fried steak with mashed potatoes; beets, celery salad, hot fruit drink.

11. Brazil.

Meat with rice, green salad, pudding, strawberry juice.

Fish, potatoes, tomatoes and bell peppers, rice, beans, zucchini. The cost is around R$10.00 (£3.16, $5).

12. South Korea.

Seoul. Rice, Kimchi soup, pork, fried dried seaweed, tofu with soy sauce, sweet rice cake. The cost is 2500 won or $2.5.

White rice, lettuce, shrimp, fried ketchup patties, kimchi, and soup with pork bones and potatoes. The cost is the same, $2.5.

Fried rice with dried seaweed; soy paste stewed with green pumpkin, mushrooms and potatoes; kimchi radish, corn, cottage cheese casserole and grapes.

13.Spain.

Barcelona. Fried fish with tomatoes and lettuce, bread, apple.

Barcelona.

Cream of zucchini soup with fried bread; sea ​​scallop with lettuce.

Catalan soup, grilled chicken breast with french fries.

Paella (rice with carrots, zucchini and pork loin), meatballs with potatoes.

14.Singapore.

Meat, rice, lettuce, melon.

15. India.

Chennai. Lentil soup, pumpkin salad (local variety), rice, cottage cheese, and semolina dessert (kesari), kefir.

Bangalore, Canadian International School. Fish nuggets, spring rolls, lettuce, noodles, melons, figs.

16. France.

Chicken nuggets with French fries and broccoli, bread, pasta with vegetables, salad and a slice of cake.

17. Sweden.

Vegetarian option: potatoes, coleslaw and beans, crackers and lingonberry juice.

18.Cuba.

Beans, rice, fried banana, a piece of fish.

19. Australia.

Pancakes with smoked salmon and cream cheese; grape tomatoes, strawberries. The cost is $5.

Melbourne. Chicken nuggets, banana and chips.

20. UAE.

Croissant stuffed with Middle Eastern spice mixture Za "atar, cucumber, carrot, strawberry, orange, fruit juice.

21.Ukraine.

Soup, a few pieces of sausage, pasta, pickles, bread, tea.

22. Estonia.

Tallinn. Red cabbage and beetroot salad, boiled rice, baked zucchini with cheese and tomato, cocoa. The cost is 2.3 euros.

HOW ARE US?

23.Russia.

In Moscow, a reform of the school food system has recently taken place. The kitchens where breakfasts and lunches were prepared were closed. Food is supplied by large factories that provide the so-called "flight meals". Dishes are delivered in the morning. In school canteens, they are only warmed up.

Moscow. The usual lunch in the capital's school: soup, cutlet with pasta, some vegetables and juice for baby food.

Kemerovo.

Saint Petersburg. Some schools in the city have food from the Concord factory. The cost of lunch is 32 rubles.

Of course, there are no uniform dinners in countries. In private schools, the food is better, in public schools it is often worse. There are regions where meals are not provided at all - children bring food with them in lunch boxes. But in general, it is possible to imagine the peculiarities of lunches and the logic of doctors and cooks (in many countries, the school menu is coordinated with the sanitary services, in Russia, by the way, too).

lunch boxes .

But examples of lunches in lunch boxes that are prepared at home say a lot about the parents themselves and about their attitude to food and health, both their own and their child :))

England, Chester. Bean burger with chili sauce and cheese, shortbread.

USA. Chicken sandwich, salad, canned pineapple. The cost is $2.

USA. Dardanelles. Lake. Camp. Ramen noodles with green beans and almonds, Hawaiian mix, hot fruit juice, apple cider or hot chocolate of your choice. Cost: $2.32.

Georgia. Carrots, mixed fruits, peanut butter, bread and water.

Australia, Jakarta. Mini French toast with cream cheese and smoked salmon, fruit, carrots and yogurt.

Ireland. Croissant, apple, cucumber, croutons.

Ireland. Russian cuisine :)) Dumplings, cucumber, drinks.

Japan.

Canada. Fruits (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries), carrot sticks, peas, boiled egg and kefir.

France, Burgundy. Sandwich, carrot, apple, cheddar crackers and donut.

Sri Lanka. Rice in milk - Kiribath (traditional dish), fruits.

West Africa, Nigeria, Lagos. Jollof rice with chicken and beef. I'm surprised that in Africa they feed like that :). It's the same for lunch at school.

Of all the presented menus, I boldly choose the Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden, Finland and South Korea :))

And once again I am convinced that in the USA it is simply necessary to change the entire food system in schools, and in the bud. No wonder why there are so many fat people in the USA! All school years - continuous synthetics, chemistry and calories.

And how is it in your school, is the menu, prices satisfied?

The topic of school meals is being actively discussed and criticized not only here in Russia, but also, for example, in the USA. As always, everything revolves around making it healthy, tasty for schoolchildren and relatively inexpensive.

The Sweetgreen company from the USA maintains a chain of "salad" restaurants, and at the same time educates schoolchildren about what a healthy diet is. The company recreated healthy school lunches in the style of cuisine from around the world. As a result, it turned out not so much like reality, but more like a fantasy on the topic of how it could be with them.

However, each of these meal examples contains important healthy nutrition elements: variety, lots of vegetables and fruits, a significant proportion of carbohydrates (WHO recommends getting about 50-55% of kcal from carbohydrates), sources of protein.

It is worth considering, if only for inspiration, how to feed a child (and eat yourself) - and the school has nothing to do with it.

The typical school lunch in the US is cited as not the best example of how to have a great lunch.

Soup, vegetables and fruits, sea squirrels in the form of shrimp and carbohydrates in the form of rice and a delicious bun.

The company's selection also included a "Ukrainian" school lunch - more precisely, as they imagine it. We believe that Ukrainian schoolchildren would not refuse such a thing. And again, a fairly balanced diet is on the plate, except that instead of sausages, a less processed protein product, such as chicken breast, would look more harmonious. But, it was important to observe the national flavor.

School lunch in Greek is also from the category of “I wish they fed me like this at school!” And again, there is a variety and harmonious composition: vegetables and fruits, milk (Greek yogurt), boiled meat with carbohydrates and something similar to dolma.

Again, the perfect variety: soup, lots of different vegetables, and “long” carbs with protein.

A piece of roast beef, soft cheese and asparagus look not childishly appetizing. Slightly fewer carbohydrates than in the previous examples, but there is plenty of protein and a variety of vegetables and fruits.

In the Finnish dinner, in our cursory glance, there is not enough yummy rich in protein. For him - soup, most likely on a meat basis.

An Italian lunch is almost ideal (and for some it may be): a chic salad with cheese, tomatoes and greens, meat with arugula, slow carbohydrates in the form of pasta, bread and grapes.