School Lunch Around the World Compared to America

  All around the world there are different standards for how students are provided lunch at school. Some countries school’s that don't allow students to bring lunch like France and Japan. While some schools don't serve lunch at all and expect kids to bring food from home like Canada. Every country has their own lunch guidelines.

  Most European countries have the same basic outlines for school lunches. Italy banned serving fried food to students in school. Lunches typically have starch like rice or pasta, at least 2 vegetables, main food being: meat, fish and fruit. Now France provides multiple courses. The first one is a starter of vegetables followed by the main dish of meat and vegetables. Next a cheese course with bread on the side. The last course is a fruit or on the last day of week a sweet. Lunch is also usually 2 hours long for both Italy and France.

  Now moving to the Asian countries. Japan has what is considered to be the healthiest school lunch. A typical lunch in Japan could have rice, grilled fish, seaweed wraps, miso soup, green tea, milk, vegetables, meat, tofu, or noodles. Students also help cook, serve, and clean after the lunches. Lunch in China  is around 40 minutes long. In China lunch usually consists of noodles, rice dumplings, steamed pork buns, soups, fruit and vegetables as well.

   In the countries in Asia and Europe school meals typically are not funded by the government. The food is funded locally and grown locally too. Food is also prepared in the school from scratch unlike America. 

 

  When it comes down to school lunches around the world some countries can't even compete for the best lunch. 1 country that can't compete is America. When you go to line up and get your tray you usually get 1-2 slots filled with some type of pre cooked food and the rest of the slots you have to fill with fruit and vegetables. The portions of food are typically not very big either. Lunch typically lasts between 30-45 minutes. Most food provided is frozen not made from scratch.

 

  In my opinion I think that school lunches in America are definitely mediocre compared to countries in europe. I think that the school boards or government should find a way to provide better meals for students. 

 

Do you like the current lunches the school provides?

 

What country's lunch would you prefer?

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https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/school-lunch-menus/ 

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=italy+school+lunch&rlz=1C1GCEV_en___US1020&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjh8eHZ58f9AhWklGoFHdkQBygQ_AUoAXoECAMQAw&biw=1366&bih=625&dpr=1#imgrc=SNylf80aMSMQmM



https://www.bokksu.com/blogs/news/lunch-in-japanese-schools#:~:text=Typical%20Japanese%20School%20Menu&text=Some%20foods%20that%20may%20appear,seaweed%20soup%2C%20and%20miso%20soup.

 

https://www.japanesefoodguide.com/japanese-school-lunch/



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  • I think that lunch in other countries are better than lunches in the US, not only that but they are also healthier and more nutricious whitch is better for our bodies. Lunches in the US in some schools its not healthy and they should be or at least its not healthy in our school.

  • I dont think the U.S provides healthy options for lunch. Somethimes the meals aren't filling so they need to put better options for lunch ideas. Growing teens and kids need filling and nutrisious meals growing up so they grow up strong and healthy. the meals all look heathy and filling but U.S needs to work on theirs a little more. 

  • I think that the Unites States doesn't provide healthy and filling meals. they defineltely need to step it up and serve us food that will not only fill us up, but benefit our body. growing kids and teenagers need meals that will help them grow throng and healthy. they might not be able to eat healthy at home, so they should definately feed us better at school. 

    • I agree that they should provide healthy lunch.

  • The school lunches served in our school do not always provide the nutrients we need to live healthily. I think our schools can step up our school lunches. I think that kids should be able to bring food from home if they want to, but they should not be required to like in Canada.

  • In Germany, we get like "full meals" served as lunch and we don't have the slots that we have to fill on our lunch plate. I think that European lunches do look better than the American one. I feel like the school serves a lot of premade and processed food. I think that the Italian lunch on the picture looks pretty good. 

  • I do not like the lunches we are served in school currently. Most of the food is unhealthy and very processed. I would also like to have more of what is being offered on the salad bar, so everybody would be able to get the food they wanted. If I had to pick a better school lunch from a country other than the United States, I would probably prefer the school lunch from Italy. 

    • Lots of food just in general that are pouplar are processed wich I agree does not make it good.

  • Personally, I think that our school could take it up a notch. A lot of people are in sports and activities that make them loose a lot of calories. When you loose a lot of calories, you need to make up for them and eat a lot more. It's hard to do that when we have very small servings of food. And some people can't afford to eat extra every day.

    • No one is getting any time of energy out of the school lunch.

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