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PHOTOS: A taste of school lunches around the world

Monday, May 12, 2014
At Mirror Lake Elementary, about 20 miles south of Seattle, students ate grilled cheese sandwiches, corn salad, fresh carrots, apple sauce and low-fat milk on Monday.
Palestinian children in the West Bank usually eat during recess in the schoolyard, as there are no dining rooms in schools.
A school lunch at El Caminet del Besos kindergarten in Barcelona, Spain, is composed of cream of vegetable soup, pan-fried breast of veal with salad, a piece of bread, and fruit.
Students in Singapore are fed breakfast, lunch and sometimes even dinner. Typical lunches include spaghetti marinara, fish slices, chicken casserole, or lotus root soup.
Kids usually bring a home-cooked meal to school in Pakistan, where school leaders check lunch boxes for junk food and admonish parents to keep things healthy.
Two lunch choices are served in London: pasta with fresh broccoli and slices of bread with fresh fruit and vegetable chili with rice, fresh broccoli and sponge cake with custard.
In Indonesia, not every student can bring a lunch box to school. Public school students buy their lunch at school cafeterias or food stalls on the nearby streets.
Children receive a free mid-day meal made of sweetened rice at a government school on the outskirts of Jammu, India.
While their mothers were at work Tuesday, children in Lambersart in northern France were served ratatouille, salmon, rice, a chunk of baguette and an orange.
Ecuadorean children bring sack lunches to school, typically a sandwich, juice, yogurt, cookies and piece of fruit.
Lunches in Old Havana, Cuba, contain rice, a chicken croquette, a piece of taro root and yellow pea soup. The children provide their own drinks.
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At Mirror Lake Elementary, about 20 miles south of Seattle, students ate grilled cheese sandwiches, corn salad, fresh carrots, apple sauce and low-fat milk on Monday.
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
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