Fancy eating food you don’t particularly enjoy every day?

 If so, let me know and you can join me for school lunch in my elementary schools.

Yep, without trying to sound too much like the kids I teach...by and large, I don’t like school lunches.

A good friend of mine, who I used to work with in Kita Hiroshima has requested that I take pictures of my school lunch for a week. Here are the results, with a little low-down of the food served.

Monday. Cold udon with mushrooms and carrot, seaweed rice, sour cabbage with tiny fish (yuck!), and a stuffed tofu of sorts...and milk.

 Tuesday. Cold miso soup with tofu, burdock salad (delicious), fish, white rice...and milk.

 Wednesday. Cold miso soup with mushrooms, bean and hijiki (not sure of the English) salad, white rice...and milk.

 Thursday. Mushroom and vegetable soup, potato and mince salad with something green in for luck, seaweed, yogurt...and milk. A delicious day.

 

 The smart ones out there will notice this is the same as Monday's photo. That's because it was exactly the same darn menu. Gutted.

A “mew” I now have with school lunches here is that there are 5 lunches prepared a week, each day the lunches rotate between schools. So, if I am really unlucky, I get the same lunch 2 or 3 times a week. Just so happens I get the less desirable days menu served up time and time again.

I know some of you will be thinking, and rightly so, that this is a lot better than the crap served to kids back home, but damn I’d like a burger or slice of pizza for lunch every blue moon!

A large complaint I have is the white rice; it is just there to fill the kids up. No nutrients, no vitamins, just bland rice. 50% (and sometimes more) of the lunch portion is rice, that can’t be good.

What do you think?

If there were days with less rice, or mushrooms and seaweed stuffed in at every possible place, I might not complain so much.

BUT....and this is a big but(t) (lol at my immaturity), when the school lunches are good, they really are great!!! And you’d be surprised how much of a boost it gives me in my day when I’m served lunch and it’s delicious! Perhaps that’s all part of it, I need the crappy lunches to bring out the best in the better days!

I’m fortunate enough to have food served to me every day, lucky to be blessed with a job that provides lunch. So ignore this rant.

I’m hungry.