Need to start thinking out of the box for your school lunch program?
Some days it is hard to find where ‘out of the box’ is. Try viewing this
You Tube video for starters, “School Lunch in Japan – It’s Not Just
About Eating!” (youtube.com). It is a totally different experience to
that of our USA approach to school lunch so it’s worth a trip out of the
box!
The students eat in their classrooms with their teachers, for a 45
minute lunch period that same as a class. We first notice students
bringing their personal items in their lunch bags, including a
toothbrush, cup for brushing teeth, a napkin, chopsticks, and placemat.
The school has a ‘farm’ for veggies and everything is made from scratch,
five kitchen staff for 570 students. Everyone wears head and face masks
around food from kitchen staff to the students. It appears that
everyone has a mask, hat, and coat in their desks to don during the
pre-eating activities.
Each class sends students to pick up the lunches for the day, which
are individually dispersed in the classrooms. They even keep track of
leftovers through a report from the students and they find out where all
the food is from, local farms, sixth graders in the school farm, so
forth. The recycling is amazing. All the milk cartons are broken down
and flattened, then washed and set aside for drying. Everyone brushes
their teeth at the end of the meal. Even the last 20 minutes before
returning to class they sweep, scrub floors and do maintenance cleaning.
Out of the box thinking does not mean one system is better than
other. These ideas can be the catalyst to solve a problem confronting us
today. And it is just interesting to see how others handle lunch!
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