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02 ED 054 Food in Japan, Food Meals, Japanese-style Food, KD 3-101 Curry, KD 4-066 General Japanese Culture, Mirai 1-087, Udon noodles

Udon noodles うどん

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With gratitude to Akiko

02 ED 052 Flavours, Food Meals, Japanese-style Food, Mirai 1-087, Mirai 2-112, Western-style food

Flavour scent しょくみ　かおり

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02 ED 054 Food in Japan, Food Meals, Japanese-style curry, Japanese-style Food, Mirai 1-087, Mirai 2-114

Pickles that go well with curry 　福神漬け　ふくじんづけ

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02 ED 054 Food in Japan, Food Meals, Japanese-style Food, KD 3-101 Curry, KD 4-066 General Japanese Culture, Mirai 1-087, Mirai 2-114, Udon noodles

Udon noodles with rice Japanese style カレーうどん

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02 ED 054 Food in Japan, Food Meals, Japanese-style curry, Japanese-style Food, KD 3-101 Curry, KD 4-066 General Japanese Culture, Mirai 1-087, Mirai 2-114, Udon noodles

Curry with rice Japanese style カレーライス

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If you take the rice away and you substitute it with noodles, you could call it カレーうどん karee-udon.

02 ED 054 Food in Japan, 03 JS 027 Lunch, 109 Hiragana Food, 203a Likes, 203b Dislikes, KD 3-100 Lunch, Mirai 1-065, Mirai 1-087, Mirai 2-124, Nori, Obentō 01-091, Seaweed

School lunches 給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

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給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

In Japan school lunches are provided and compulsory for students, so each child will have had a healthy lunch every day. This practice is instilled from the earliest Primary School years.

Every day the menu changes, so over a long period of time students get a balanced diet. It also curbs the annoying desire of children to express the “I don’t like this” and “I don’t like that” and “I don’t eat that”. Mind you, not as annoying as parents who decide for their children that they don’t like something! Unless there is a sound medical reason, they all eat it. Annoying too when you think about the fact that one billion people in the world experience hunger at some stage during the day… OK… Let’s move on:

These photos will give you an idea of what Japanese school lunches look like:

High in iron, protein, omega; rice, soup, milk, seaweed,
salmon, fruit, spinach, pickles. Notice: no sugar!

げつようびのきゅうしょく

getsuyōbi no kyūshoku

Monday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

Cheese, rice, kimchee (originally Korean), quail eggs, soup, milk. Notice: no sugar!

かようびのきゅうしょく

kayōbi no kyūshoku

Tuesday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

すいようびのきゅうしょく

suiyōbi no kyūshoku

Wednesday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

Have you noticed that every day the students have soup of some sort? That’s because research has shown that soup is easier to break down in the stomach and it does so more slowly. Students won’t feel so hungry so soon. Again: no added sugar! How great is that for children!

もくようびのきゅうしょく

mokuyōbi no kyūshoku

Thursday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

きんようびのきゅうしょく

kinyōbi no kyūshoku

Friday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

We’ll just start on another week’s lunch:

げつようびのきゅうしょく

getsuyōbi no kyūshoku

Monday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

かようびのきゅうしょく

kayōbi no kyūshoku

Tuesday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

すいようびのきゅうしょく

suiyōbi no kyūshoku

Wednesday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

Do we see some repetition here?

もくようびのきゅうしょく

mokuyōbi no kyūshoku

Thursday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

That’s a boiled egg on the left there – all prepacked.

きんようびのきゅうしょく

kinyōbi no kyūshoku

Friday’s school lunch

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

So there you have it: two weeks of school lunches in a Japanese primary school. All lunches have some rice prepared in a slightly different way. They all have a soup of some sort to help with the digestion. They all have an extra carton of milk. They all have some meat or fish to supplement. They all have some vegetables and pickles and it all fits on an easy tray to make distribution in class easy.

いただきます！

itadakimasu!

Enjoy your meal!

給食　きゅうしょく　kyūshoku

The photos were provided by S. Lowry, Japan. We are most grateful for his efforts.

Food Meals, Japanese-style Food, KD 3-116 Tonkatsu, Mirai 1-087