What school lunches look like outside the US

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Rice, salmon, ratatouille, bread, salad, an orange and a donut at the Anne Franck school in Lambersart, northern France.

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A schoolgirl buys a pancake for lunch from a food stall in Jakarta, Indonesia. Public school students often buy their lunch at school or from vendors on the street.

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At the Delcare Edu Center, a kindergarten and child care center in Singapore, bowls of salad are ready to be served. Lunch is prepared by the school's staff every day, and the weekly menu is prepared by the principal each term.

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A student in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has milanesa (chicken covered with egg and bread) for lunch. Since most Argentine families are often large and tight-knit, most students enjoy a hot homemade meal before or after school, which is usually taught in four-hour shifts in the morning or afternoon.

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Cream of vegetable soup, pan-fried breast of veal with salad, a slice of bread and an orange or banana with a glass of water is served at El Caminet del Besos kindergarten in Barcelona, Spain.

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Children wait in line to receive a free "midday meal" of sweetened rice at a school on the outskirts of Jammu, India. The Mid-Day Meal is a massive program that reaches millions of children in primary schools across India.

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Two meal choices are offered at a primary school in London: pasta with fresh broccoli, bread and seasonal fresh fruit (right), or vegetable chili with rice, fresh broccoli, sponge cake and a banana.

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A plate of meat empanadas, milanesa (meat covered with egg and bread) and potato at a school in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Students at a school in the West Bank city of Nablus eat sandwiches of pita bread stuffed with olive oil and zaatar, a mixture of herbs and spices, that they brought from home. There are no school dining rooms in the West Bank and students typically eat during recess.

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Assorted lunch plates are arranged for students at the Bahria Foundation school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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A schoolgirl eats her lunch, prepared by her mother, of flatbread, a turnip dish and mangoes, at school in Jammu, India.

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An omelette, vegetable soup, banana yogurt and water are served at the Chiquitin kindergarten in Madrid, Spain.

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A house maid in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the box lunch she's prepared for her employer's child: rice, meatball soup, tofu and vegetables.

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In Quito, Ecuador, a student brings a lunch from home that includes a ham and cheese sandwich, a boxed oatmeal drink and an apple.

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In Federal Way, Wash., students enjoy a grilled cheese sandwich on whole grain bread with Southwestern-style corn salad, fresh carrots with canned pears or applesauce.

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SEATTLE — First lady Michelle Obama is on a mission to make American school lunches healthier by replacing greasy pizza and french fries with whole grains, low-fat protein, fresh fruit and vegetables.

The Associated Press helps you compare her efforts in the United States 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 schoolchildren around the world. Most countries put a premium on feeding schoolchildren a healthy meal at lunchtime.

A student shows his fried doughnuts on his way to school to Bamako, Mali.Photo: AP

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.

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.

Lunch is an art form in France: Chef Xavier Lebeau holds up 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.Photo: AP

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.

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.

A student at an elementary school in Old Havana, Cuba, digs into her lunch of rice, chicken croquettes, taro roots and yellow pea soup. She also brought fried plantains and an orange drink from home.Photo: AP

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.

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.

Students enjoy their home-cooked lunches at the Bahria Foundation school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.Photo: AP

Kids usually bring a home-cooked meal to school in Pakistan, where school leaders check lunchboxes for junk food and admonish parents to keep things healthy. 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 a piece of fruit.

In Federal Way, Wash., schools have embraced the first lady's lunch campaign for the approximately 16,000 children who get a school-made lunch each day.

A school lunch at Mirror Lake Elementary School in Federal Way, Wash.Photo: AP

At Mirror Lake Elementary, about 20 miles south of Seattle, students ate grilled cheese sandwiches, corn salad, fresh carrots, applesauce 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.

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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