How much did they typically cost you in the day if you had to buy it.

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  1. In Denmark most schools dont provide lunch. Instead you bring your own. usually a few pieces of smørrebrød, at least one of them being with [leverpostej and slices of cucumber](https://www.google.com/search?q=leverpostej+agurk&safe=active&sxsrf=APq-WBs4B5JeN5pTIn62U5h0RQRAmfc_Eg:1646384306776&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZiJO-i6z2AhUkSvEDHeU7C5EQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1920&bih=1057&dpr=1#imgrc=zBn9Xd9Mea6WpM).

    The design of the lunchboxes as well as their content is a traditional way of establish dominance in the classroom. From my 0th grade daughter I know that current trends are that the more unicorn stickers you have on your lunchbox, the cooler you are.

    As for the contents, it is generally the smellier the better. Leverpostej doesn’t count here, as everybody gets that. Instead, the kid with canned mackerel in tomato sauce on rye bread usually wins.

  2. We didn’t have school lunches. Most days school ended around lunch time and on the days we had afternoon lessons we either brought something from home or went to a bakery/kebap shop/restaurant to buy something for lunch.

  3. Free lunches in Finland so either:

    1) fish/mince meat/root/pea/chicken etc. **soup** (+usually soft buns on those days; rest of the time we’ve got rye bread as an option)

    2) salad & potatoes/rice/pasta in some shape or form & fish sticks/sausages/meatballs/some sort of meat or a vegetarian version. Usually a sauce, jam, or ketchup available for the meat portion e.g. sour cream for fish sticks or lingonberry jam for black sausages.

    3) porridge (with kisel and cinnamon&sugar available)

    Sometimes we might have tortillas or kebab. Milk and water always available. On special days we might get a pastry + coffee.

    Middle school food was a worse version of this; high school food’s good.

    Uni etc. students pay for lunches in these (student branded) lunch diners, and it’s only around 3€/cheap for them.

  4. We didn’t usually have afternoon classes more than once a week, when we did, we just grabbed a Leberkässemmel at the closest bakery or something. Some parents came together to provide a lunch in school at some point, but that was always horrible and we didn’t want to stay in school longer than necessary anyway.

  5. I had none. During my entire school years, no lunch of any kind was served at the schools I went to. I packed bread, fruit and snacks from home and some pocket money, if a bakery was close by. I ate my first warm meal of the day once I got home from school in the afternoon.

  6. In my primary school it was 8 euros a month. However, that was quite some time ago, so maybe it’s higher now. We didn’t have school lunches in high school.

  7. Lunch is extremely important over here. At least that’s the impression I have when I compare to other countries I lived in.

    From 1st grade to 12th grade I had between 1h and 1h30 for lunch and we always had canteen. You could go back home for lunch if your parents authorized you (or if you’re above 18) but the vast majority of people around me used the canteen. Depending on the school, food can be horrible or decent, I had both. They have an obligation to serve a balanced diet according to current health guidelines and also cater to no pork for those who don’t eat it for example.

    As for price, I can’t remember it but I know there were different prices depending on the parents’ wages (or economical situation).

    Lunch is a nice moment usually, you sit down and have a meal with your peers, it’s a nice moment to share. It’s a true downtime in the school day which is quite long in France.

  8. We didn’t have free school lunches for everyone. Only kids from large or disadvantaged families could get one. Most people bought baked goods like pirožki and school pizzas instead of proper lunches.

  9. It was heavily subsidised by the East German government. The lunch cost 0.5 – 0.7 Mark which was pretty much nothing. Milk for breakfast was also almost free.

    The lunch was typical mass produced stuff and also depended on what was available at the time.

  10. We always had soup, a piece of a small bread, a salad and a dessert option. The dessert option most times was a piece of fruit or gelatine but there where the wonderfull rare time where we had chocolate mousse or sweet rice. The main dish was always diferent and it alternated between a meat dish and fish day per day. We had several dish that were part of the Portuguese cuisine like:

    – Bacalhau com natas
    – Jardineira
    – Pea stew
    – Arroz de pato
    – Bacalhau espiritual
    – Bacalhau á Brás

    But also some dishes that are a bit more international:

    – spaguetti and meatballs
    – spaguetti carbonara
    – pizza
    – rice á la valenciana
    – fried fish ( but instead of chip usually it was carrot rice)
    – sherpards pie

    The cantine meals were paid, kids with special family situations had a discount depending on their rank (varied from 25% off to free meals).

    We also had a School bar with lunch options usually much simpler ranging from a bifana to a cold pasta with canned veggies and tuna options.

    This is the norm for a public portuguese school. With the school bar being the option that may vary more.

  11. I always had lunch at home so I don’t know.

    Only one of the schools in my town had lunch when I was a kid (nowadays I think there are more).

  12. Lunch wasn’t provided in my school, so I’d either bring my own, order or go to the bakery.

  13. We got one hour free and bought our own food.

    Nowadays were the little ones are more often the whole day in school they got something provided though

  14. In Turkey in my high school, there was a lunchroom and cooks was making food, like pasta, chicken etc and you can buy them about 1-2$ in that time. If you want to buy that plate from outside, probably it would cost 5$.

    At university, a lunch costs 0.3$. It is very cheap and very satisfying I think, there is a soup that change everyday, pasta or rice, and one food with meat(potatos and chicken for example) plus a salad.

  15. România, a piece of bread and a milk box. The ones gave by the school, because nobody ate it. They were great weapons for school fights tho

  16. No school lunches!

    We finished school at lunchtime and either went home to eat (usually) or else went to a nearby bar with friends for lunch.

    Rarely we had something connected with school in the afternoon, but there was a breaktime so we could get something from the bar.

    Many people had a snack around 11am.That was either brought from home, bought at the nearby bar or bakery,or from one of the food vans parked outside the school.

  17. It was free in the beginning and I think we had to pay for a small fraction of it later (it was paid monthly by my parents, so don’t know the details).

    We had common everyday food. Either a main course or a soup with a dessert. Ill just add some photos that I considered “common enough”: [potatoes1](https://f8.pmo.ee/DwEIFjl4j5lih3yNMKyr0WHdWA8=/685×685/smart/nginx/o/2015/01/08/3663915t1h6382.jpg), [potatoes2](https://www.vkrk.edu.ee/sites/default/files/styles/lehekulje_pilt/public/2016-12/IMG_6499v.jpg?itok=i3YNvuZP), [potatoes3](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThfPnGrM7rpp4qNp6B_vsT-wJgGo3q_5lqnIsGXN9msqqfP43RO_iQ5mJktJUraFgZZsU&usqp=CAU), [buckwheat](https://sonumid.ee/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/koolitoitRG2_UB-copy.jpg), [rice](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQI23HdD6-cpec8nF33Q7alErNWNaUpZfJB9Y3ciYlo6y-QvtwkTIR10JnggHPEdqJGDdE&usqp=CAU), [soup-dessert1](https://f7.pmo.ee/jQX4JkgD9SQLRp_CYGUB3q_CeII=/685×685/smart/nginx/o/2013/12/19/2705812t1ha5ff.jpg), [soup-dessert2](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3KZ6kgy4Mig/UJKOyu0ifMI/AAAAAAAAAEk/yzxIS7sWHPY/s1600/DSC_0671.jpg).

  18. I left high school 10 years ago but our canteen done great food. The hot food counter was excellent, we always had nice food, soup, baked potatoes etc. It was pretty cheap, I put about £5 a week on my card to keep it topped up but that was plenty. Probably less than £1 a day on hot food. The food in my school was so good that we supplied to other primary schools and nurseries in the area too. My food was low key famous for the tasty lunches. I only done that for a few years though as going out for lunch was probably more popular. Local shops etc would make up the ramen noodles in the cups and stuff, the local butchers was open, supermarkets close by. Older students who could drive just lived off McDonald’s and subways

  19. None, we make them ourselves. Typically bread slices with butter and a layer of peanut butter/chocolate sprinkles/cheese.

    Simple as.

    Though, you can buy food from the school canteens. They tend to offer mainly unhealthy food, but that’s changing with many schools also offering healthier alternatives. €2 or so for a croissant.

  20. In Switzerland you mostly don’t have lunches and Cafeterias in Schools.Sometimes you just bring an dar vida or an sandwich.

  21. It’s mostly just typical beef, rice, fish, etc. and usually there’ll be a different meal every day with grjónagrautur (rice pudding) on Fridays. I remember school lunches being abysmal and at least 70% of the time outright inedible so I, along with several other students, opted for bringing lunch instead. School lunches here are a subscription system where you pay a monthly fee of 10.000 ISK (70 euro, 75 USD) and the government will pay it for you if you can’t afford it.

  22. In my elementary school times in the eighties we didn’t have school lunch; we went home to eat lunch. A small number of students ate their lunch at school, but they had to bring their own. The only thing the school provided was milk, but you had to take a subscription on that. At the time drinking milk was subsidized and promoted heavily because of overproduction.

  23. Currently costs between 2.5 and 6€. Depends on the location and on family income.

    It’s almost always a starter (salad, charcuterie, small pieces of pizza…), a main course, a dairy product (cheese/ yogurt) and/or a dessert. Plus bread and water.

    Usually meals are planned with a nutritionist.

    Quality may vary, basically if your school use Sodexo then too bad for you
    .
    Luckily most schools I went to were great (my elementary school had a real cook working with local products) but we had very active parent association fighting for decades to keep it that way (they actually won last year, every school in the area ditched Sodexo for actual food).

  25. Schools in Cyprus operate from 07:45 until 13:05 (elementary) and 07:30 until 13:35 (Gymnasium and High School/Lyceum and technical schools) , so most eat lunch at home.

    What we ate at school was breakfast or snack around 10:00. Every school has a canteen that you can buy sandwiches, pizza and various pies (halloumi pie, olive pie, cheese pie or sausage rolls). Most kids brought their own sandwich.

    Some schools has a scheme that distributed free food to kids who couldn’t afford to buy from the canteen. They provided snack + chocolate milk. (Snack varied by day. Included cheese pie, halloumi pie, tahini pie)

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