How children eat lunch at a Japanese school

School lunches for Japanese are part of an educational program where children learn independence and responsibility. Already from the first class, duty officers are assigned here. They lay out, clean up and report how much food is left. Nothing is wasted here.

At the end of the article there is a video, after watching which we were impressed.

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Meet this 5th grade student Yui. She will show how schoolchildren eat lunch in Japan.

Lunch for 720 people is prepared by five employees in three hours.

Today the menu includes fish with pear sauce, mashed potatoes, vegetable soup and milk. Potatoes and pears were grown by children in the school garden.

They leave the cooked food in such containers.

Children have lunch right in the classroom. The attendants put on dressing gowns, masks, disinfect their hands and begin to lay out food.

After lunch, children unwrap paper milk bags, wash and dry them. Later they will be taken away for recycling.

After eating, everyone brushes their teeth.

Children collect dirty dishes in carts and take them to the elevator.

After lunch, everyone is busy cleaning: they wash the floors, sweep the yard and throw out the garbage.