So I often see American TV high schoolers eat in a big cafeteria. (Our schools don’t have them very often. You just sort of eat somewhere on school grounds with your “group.”)
But I am curious to see what your school (any level) offered up for meals or snacks. Either ones you could buy or even freely provided, if that happened in yours.
Or what you brought from home.
In Australia bought food is called “tuck shop.” So your parents give you like I dunno 5- 10 bucks and you choose what you want. Though I think, especially recently, there are free options for children from low income families. Don’t quote me on that but I do think that’s becoming a thing.
When I went to school you could get lollies/sweets from the little tuck shop open before school. Muesli bars and packets of chips. There were also other little packets of things, like this thing called a “chocki choc” basically a little strip packet of squeezes chocolate, roll ups, this crispy bacon chip thing that’s awesome and even packets of various nuts. Various flavoured milk and soft drink. Though when I was I think in grade 9 or 10 they phased a lot of unhealthy options out. (Not always successful. Since my high school was located literally down the road from a little lolly/sweet/candy corner shop. So we all just went there before school lol.)
Then for actual lunch you could order from an assortment of hot meal options and the dessert was usually a “giant chocolate chip cookie” which we loved even as teenagers. Food options were hot lasagna, chicken chippies, chicken and salad, various pies (of course) various sausage rolls, pieces of various flavours of “homemade” pizza and even little packets of chips for a snack. Fairly certain that under our laws all the food was to be cooked there and then. It couldn’t just be reheated. But I wouldn’t be surprised if most of it was cooked from frozen all the same.
Drink were flavoured milks and soft drinks (which strangely remained even after the phaseout of lollies.) And hot drinks during winter like hot cocoa and hot milo.
Fruits started appearing more frequently in tuck shop menus.
From home it was usually a sandwich and a packet of chips for me. But I would usually use the tuck shop
What about you? What did your school offer? What did your parental units pack for you? What did you take from your friends lol
Discuss as you like
But I am curious to see what your school (any level) offered up for meals or snacks. Either ones you could buy or even freely provided, if that happened in yours.
Or what you brought from home.
In Australia bought food is called “tuck shop.” So your parents give you like I dunno 5- 10 bucks and you choose what you want. Though I think, especially recently, there are free options for children from low income families. Don’t quote me on that but I do think that’s becoming a thing.
When I went to school you could get lollies/sweets from the little tuck shop open before school. Muesli bars and packets of chips. There were also other little packets of things, like this thing called a “chocki choc” basically a little strip packet of squeezes chocolate, roll ups, this crispy bacon chip thing that’s awesome and even packets of various nuts. Various flavoured milk and soft drink. Though when I was I think in grade 9 or 10 they phased a lot of unhealthy options out. (Not always successful. Since my high school was located literally down the road from a little lolly/sweet/candy corner shop. So we all just went there before school lol.)
Then for actual lunch you could order from an assortment of hot meal options and the dessert was usually a “giant chocolate chip cookie” which we loved even as teenagers. Food options were hot lasagna, chicken chippies, chicken and salad, various pies (of course) various sausage rolls, pieces of various flavours of “homemade” pizza and even little packets of chips for a snack. Fairly certain that under our laws all the food was to be cooked there and then. It couldn’t just be reheated. But I wouldn’t be surprised if most of it was cooked from frozen all the same.
Drink were flavoured milks and soft drinks (which strangely remained even after the phaseout of lollies.) And hot drinks during winter like hot cocoa and hot milo.
Fruits started appearing more frequently in tuck shop menus.
From home it was usually a sandwich and a packet of chips for me. But I would usually use the tuck shop
What about you? What did your school offer? What did your parental units pack for you? What did you take from your friends lol
Discuss as you like
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