Country: USA
Contents: Flaming Hot Cheetos with cheese sauce.
Source: http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/slow_food/blog_post/whats_for_lunch_cheetos_with_cheese/ Thanks Krista!
USA School Lunch - Cheetos with Cheese
Japan School Lunch - Rice and Soup
Contents: Soup, rice (with sorted delcious bits), vegetables and milk.
Source: ?
Notes: Anyone able to identify everything? Man that is healthy, and I bet it is dirt cheap as well.
USA School Lunch - Meatballs and Rice
Contents: Meatballs, mixed vegetables and rice.
Source: ?
Notes: Actually not all that bad, compared to a lot of lunches out there. What do you suppose that boy is saying about the meatball? "I didn't know horse meat came in meatball form?"
Japan School Lunch - Rice and Fish
Contents: Rice, soup, fish, milk, ?
Source: ?
Notes: Not sure what is next to the rice. Any thoughts?
USA School Lunch - Nachos and French Fries
Contents: Nachos, French fries, ketchup, chocolate milk, peaches.
Source: ?
Notes: Seriously? Nachos and French fries? This is why kids are fat.
USA School Lunch - Fried Chicken and Fruit
Country: USA
Contents: Chicken, potatoes (?), fruit dip, and mixed fruit.
Source: Thanks Nicole!
Notes: Fruit dip: 1 jar marshmallow fluff, 1 container (any flavor) cream cheese, 1 container (any flavor) cool whip. My mom used to make something similar to that, it was delicious.
USA School Lunch - 1936
Country: USA
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:School_Lunch_Programs.gif
Notes: Young girl prays before eating school lunch of soup, milk, and an apple. 1936. Part of U.S. Works Progress Administration Surplus Commodities: School Lunch Programs during the Great Depression.
USA School Lunch - Taquitos and Oreos
Contents: 4 homemade chicken taquitos, oranges, bananas, chocolate sauce to dip the bananas in, and Oreos.
Source: Thanks Nicole
Notes: To make the taquitos I use leftover rotisserie chicken, salsa, cumin, grated cheese. soften tortillas in a little hot oil, fill, roll and bake. Those look awesome, please mail me some.
USA School Lunch - Taco Salad and Fruit
Contents: Mini chicken taquito, leftover meat from taco salad, salad and chips (for mini taco salad), orange & banana slices, mini marshmallows & chocolate chips,
Source: Thanks Nicole!
Notes: Looks a lot better than the lunch I brought today. What dressing do you prefer on taco salad? I've come to prefer French dressing.
Honduras School Lunch - Rice Porridge
Country: Honduras
Contents: Rice porridge
USA School Lunch - Quiche
Contents: Quiche (cheese, onions, and tomatoes) dried fruit, a biscuit with jelly and butter, a black cherry Jello jiggler egg, and strawberry milk.
Source: Thanks Lea!
Notes: I love quiche, but my wife and I have to find a healthier recipe. It has a lot of cream in it, but man is it delicious.
USA School Lunch - Fish Nuggets and Pears
Country: USA (St. Louis, Missouri)
Contents: Fish nuggets, macaroni and cheese, pear slices, chocolate milk
USA School Lunch - Pizza and Fritos
Country: USA
Contents: Pizza, casserole?, fruit cup, celery with peanut butter and raisins (aka ants on a log), carrot slices, chocolate milk, ranch dressing, fruit rollup, rice crispy treat and Fritos.
Notes: Seems like a lot of food, mostly crap. Honestly, how many calories do we have here? Pizza does look like perhaps it was made on site, instead of shipped in, so that is a plus.
USA School Lunch - Homemade Lunchables
Contents: Triscuits, turkey pepperoni, cheese cubes, a Capri Sun flavored water, dried fruit, and some graham crackers dipped in chocolate.
Source: Thanks Lea!
Notes: Looks delicious and nutritious. My son doesn't like pepperoni, and it makes me sad. I hope it is because he is only 18 months, and he will learn to love them. I just can't justify buying plain cheese pizzas.
USA School Lunch - Chicken Fingers
Country: USA (Miami Dade schools)
Source: http://miamidish.net/2009/09/01/lunch-week-time-for-better-school-lunch/
Notes: Chickens don't have fingers, it's pulverized and remolded chicken parts. I think they should be renamed.
USA School Lunch - Pizza
Country: USA (Washington DC)
Contents: Pizza
Notes: Here, according to one of those boxes, is what the pizzas are made of:
"Crust: Enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, defatted soy four, yeast, contains 2% or less of soybean oil, isolate soy protein, sugar, GDL (glucono-delta-lactone, DATEM, sodium bicarbonate, salt, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, dough conditioner (wheat starch, L-cysteine hydrochloride, ammonium sulfate);
"Topping: Low moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese (cultured pasteurized part-skim milk, salt, enzymes);
"Sauce: Tomatoes (water, tomato paste [not less than 28% soluble solids]), modified food starch, sugar, contains 2% or less of dextrose, salt, spices, onion, dehydrated romano cheese (sheep's and cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), garlic powder, paprika, citric acid, beet powder."
USA School Lunch - Cookies and Sprite
Country: USA
Contents: A bag of Oreo cookies, a lollipop, a chocolate cupcake and a can of Sprite
Source: Thanks Bruske, http://betterdcschoolfood.blogspot.com/2010/05/lunch-from-home.html
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