The kids eat lunch in their classroom. They start the process by arranging their desks into a cluster of six. Next they lay out their placemats and get their bottle of milk.
The food is brought to each classroom. The kids serve the lunch, in their professional chef's outfits.
When everyone has been served, it's time to say grace. Itadakimasu!
If kids feel that they cannot eat all of the food they were served, they can go back to the food line and return a portion of their food (as long as it hasn't been touched). Kids must try everything offered at lunch. Even the picky eaters are required to do this.
Today's lunch was sour rice (rice with salmon and sour plum), salad, and egg drop-ham-tomato soup. Each month we get a calender of the lunch menu. The calender includes the calorie count of each day's lunch. It also has daily suggestions of what mom should cook at home each night, to offer a well-balanced diet for the day.
After lunch all kids must brush their teeth. They are also responsible for cleaning their desks after lunch. Each kid has their own personal cleaning towel hanging from their desk for this purpose.
After watching our kids eat lunch, we were invited to eat lunch. We had the same meal and were given a brief lecture about proper nutrition for our 1st graders. Oh, did I mention that fruit, juice, soda, nor sweets of any kind aren't allowed? No wonder there is not an obesity problem in Japan.
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