A taste of school lunches all around world
The Associated Press helps you compare her efforts in the United States with what kids are eating around the globe by sending photographers to see what kids in Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America ate for lunch this week.
The new American standards are giving kids in the United States a taste of the good life already experienced by school children around the world. Most countries put a premium on feeding school children a healthy meal at lunchtime.
The AP has compared the new school lunch standards in the U.S. with what kids are eating around the globe - including this lunch in Jakarta, Indonesia, which consists of rice, meatball soup, tofu and vegetables
A public elementary school girl buys a pancake for her lunch on the street in Jakarta, for the price of about one U.S. cent
Many kids go home to eat lunch with their families or bring a lunch cooked by their parents.
Although few schools sell lunch, snacks are available around the world.
In many places those snacks are as unhealthy as treats in the United States: fried doughnuts in Mali and Pakistan, candy in the West Bank, fried chicken nuggets in France.
A school lunch salad entree option featuring low-sodium chicken, a whole-grain roll, fresh red peppers, and cilantro dressing is assembled in a lunch basket at Mirror Lake Elementary School in Federal Way, Washington
The other option on this day was a grilled cheese sandwich on whole grain bread is served with a southwestern-style corn salad, fresh carrots and either canned pears or apple sauce
American children are more likely to eat a lunch made in a school cafeteria, although other countries are starting to adopt this practice as more mothers go to work outside the home.
In France, lunch is an art form: hot, multi-course and involving vegetables. 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.
Students eat their lunch at the Bahria Foundation school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Most of the kids seen there have home cooked food for lunch
Principal Syeda Arifa Mohsin says the school dissuades parents from fixing junk food for their children. 'If we discover that a child has junk food, we ask his or her parents to please make a little effort for their child's health'
French chef Xavier Lebeau poses with a plate of Quenelles de Brochet (pike fish) with Green Haricots and Champignons de Paris (Paris mushrooms) at the Saint Pierre de Chaillot school in Paris, France
In France, school lunch is an art form: hot, multi-course and involving vegetables. Pictured: A meal of rice, salmon, ratatouille, a slice of bread, a salad with celery and carrots, and an orange and donut at the Anne Franck school in Lambersart, northern France
Healthy lunches are offered in public school cafeterias in the United Arab Emirates but the children of foreigners attending private schools get fancier, multi-cultural offerings like American barbecue, Indian curries and Asian noodles.
Cuba provides all students with free school lunches, typically featuring rice, beans, another source of protein like a hard-boiled egg, a vegetable such as a sliced tomato and arroz con leche for dessert.
Many parents send their children off to school with extra vegetables or a piece of fish or chicken to complement the free lunch.
Baani, a five-year-old Indian schoolgirl, eats her lunch prepared by her mother, consisting of flatbread, a turnip dish and mangoes, at a school in Jammu, India
Children stand in a queue to receive a free mid-day meal made of sweetened rice at a government school on the outskirts of Jammu, India
A school lunch at El Caminet del Besos kindergarten is pictured in Barcelona, Spain, is composed of cream of vegetable soup, pan-fried breast of veal with salad, a piece of bread, an orange or banana and water
Fresh food is also on the menu at the DEL-Care Edu Center in downtown Singapore, where students are fed breakfast, lunch and even dinner if their parents work late.
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.
Milagro Ramos, a student at the Angela Landa elementary school, spoons up rice from her lunch tray, which also contains a chicken croquette, a piece of taro root and yellow pea soup in Old Havana, Cuba
A plate containing an empanada of meat, milanesa (meat covered with egg and bread), and potato is set on a table where children ages two to five years old have lunch at a school in Buenos Aires, Argentina
In Argentina, most children have been able to count on some relative providing a hot homemade lunch before or after they attend public school, which is generally taught in four-hour shifts in the morning or afternoon
A typical sack lunch at The Bahria Foundation school in Rawalpindi, adjacent to the capital, Islamabad, includes eggs, chicken nuggets, bread, rice or noodles.
Some also include leftovers such as minced mutton and vegetables cooked the night before.
Ecuadorean children bring sack lunches to school, typically a sandwich, juice, yogurt, cookies and piece of fruit.
Palestinian students hold up their sandwiches of pita bread stuffed with olive oil and zaatar, a mixture of herbs and spices, brought from home, during their half-hour mid-day break in the West Bank city of Nablus
Bowls of salad are ready to be served at Delcare Edu Center, a local kindergarten and child care center in the business district of Singapore
Two lunch trays at a primary school in London. The meal at right consists of pasta with broccoli and slices of bread, and fruit. At left are vegetable chili with rice and broccoli, sponge cake with custard, and a banana
In Federal Way, Washington, schools have embraced the first lady's lunch campaign for the approximately 16,000 children who get a school-made lunch each day.
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.
The bread was whole grain, the cheese low fat and low sodium, the carrots fresh and fruit the only dessert.
A student's lunch box brought from home sits on display at an elementary school in Quito, Ecuador. The lunch consists of a sandwich of ham, cheese, tomato and lettuce, a boxed oatmeal drink, and an apple
Mamadou Diagana shows his fried donuts as he makes his way to school in Bamako, Mali. In Maliís capital, most students go to schools and return home from noon to 3pm so they can eat lunch with their families. The they then return to class until 5pm
Fried food, white bread, sugar-laden desserts and overcooked vegetables have all but disappeared from the American school menu.
Anything kids can pick up with their fingers is popular in the younger grades.
High school students enjoy some spicy and exotic choices, especially Asian flavors, says Federal Way chef and dietitian Adam Pazder.
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