Несъедобные обеды американских школьников

[peacetraveler22]

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[ir_cherry]

Доброго дня, Шеннон! Мене звати Ірина, я живу в Україні

[peacetraveler22]

Hello! Thank you very much for the detailed reply! These lunch meals sound tasty! :) I esp. like the pancakes with sour cream! I don't like sauerkraut, or foods with a strong vinegar or pickled taste. My family eats these types of foods in the USA, and it's common to put sauerkraut on our hot dogs. I found the photo of the Ukrainian school lunch in this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-2957301/What-school-lunches-look-like-world.html. More vegetables are always good, esp. if they are fresh, and not from the can.

[polis_2]

Actually sauerkraut is an amazing, tasty and useful product!!!
Vinegar isn't added to it - it is fermented independently, ingredients - cabbage shredded, carrot shaving, is a little salt and not enough sugar, + black peas pepper. In total!!!
But it is necessary to eat, having watered ready cabbage with the fresh sunflower oil which - isn't refined that is natural. with a pleasant smell. I adore!!!)
На самом деле квашеная капуста - это изумительный, вкусный и полезный продукт!!!
Уксус в нее не добавляется - она заквашивается самостоятельно, ингредиенты - капуста шинкованная, морковка натертая, немного соль и совсем мало сахара, + черный горошек перец. Все!!!
Но кушать нужно, полив готовую капусту свежим подсолнечным маслом - не рафинированным, то есть натуральным, с приятным запахом. Обожаю!!!)

[peacetraveler22]

I always yell at my mother when she cooks this food, because it stinks up the whole house! :))

[seadevil001]

In USSR, soup was considered mandatory for school lunch. Then some other things, already described by other people. It was not very tasty but edible. And "coffee with milk" - horrendous concoction but I miss it now.

[peacetraveler22]

Children were served coffee during school?? I don't think they have this as a drink option in U.S. cafeterias, or even hot tea.

[seadevil001]

Imagine 20 gallon pot with hot light brown liquid in it. I do not know how much coffee was in it, but if has coffee overtones on skimmed milk background with too much sugar. Somehow it was so bad, it was good actually.

[peacetraveler22]

This seems like a nightmare for teachers, because a caffeinated child is usually a wild and hyperactive child! :)) When I first entered university, I studied to be a teacher. Then, I went to a junior high school as a "substitute" teacher, and taught a classroom of teenagers for a few days. It was such a nightmare that I immediately changed my career plans.

[selfmade]

I challenge you to find actual pictures of lunches from around the globe, not the posters based on creator's fantasies.

In my USSR childhood school lunches varied from day to day. However all these varieties can be nicely summed up by this

Generally it was:
0. Black bread + butter
1. Soup - borsch, shchi, fish, macaroni.
2. potatoes - mashed or pieces, or some macaroni, or kasha. With piece of meat: a cutlet, a chicken drumstick, rarely a piece of fish.
3. tea or dried fruits compote
Season permitted it would have an additional piece or a whole of an apple, a cucumber, a tomato, a pear, a piece of melon.

School lunches in USSR if not fully subsidized would be of rather symbolic value.

My kids go to US public school system. I'm Ok with their variety since at home they have an abundance of fruits, vegetables and everything.

[peacetraveler22]

These are pictures I pulled after viewing several articles online. Of course, I can't personally visit all countries and schools to see the lunches they serve. It would be a great project, though! :) The images in this post were pulled from a UK article. A child can still eat healthy in U.S. schools, but the healthy options are definitely less than pizza, fried foods, etc.

[metler]

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[inescher]

My daughter (3rd grade) takes lunch from home every day. Last year she ate school lunches but we assumed that she started to have some health problems that completely disappears after finishing of her school year

[peacetraveler22]

How does your daughter pay for the school lunches? At my nephew's school, the parents put money on a type of prepaid card. I think kids also like this, it makes them feel very "adult" to whip out a card and have the cafeteria cashier scan it. :)) Your daughters lunch today sounds delicious...suddenly, I'm very hungry! I wish someone still packed my lunch every day for work. :)) Usually, I eat only a small yogurt and fruit.

[inescher]

We have a school account link to my daughter. Usually we put the money on and it's automatically charged when the child take lunch/ only milk. There is no card in kids hands. :)

I just finish my lunch so I could talk about the food. :)))

[koluchkka]

Wir had lunches, I don't know, free or very cheap - soup, second meal, compot or tea or coffe with milk or cacao. But that all was ... I don't know, it had special taste of russsian столовка. This is definately not that meal, that one cook at home. And also there was cafeteria with cackes and sweets.
P.S. Oups, I seemed to use german instead of english a bit )

[peacetraveler22]

German instead of English? It's good to know so many languages! I'm impressed. :)

[koluchkka]

Thank you))
Not so many - only two foreign and they are far from perfection.
Foreigners who learn russian impress me much more)