On Japan’s School Lunch Menu: A Healthy Meal, Made from Scratch

29th January, 2013

1 February 2013, News, Newsletter

Thanks Again Loren Shlaes of Pediatric OT Blog for this thought provoking article. Ah to dream of this here in the States.
[Source: The Washington Post]

By Chico Harlan

In Japan, school lunch means a regular meal, not one that harms your health. The food is grown locally and almost never frozen. There’s no mystery in front of the meat. From time to time, parents even call up with an unusual question: Can they get the recipes?“Parents hear their kids talking about what they had for lunch,” said Tatsuji Shino, the principal at Umejima Elementary School in Tokyo, “and kids ask them to re-create the meals at home.”Japan takes seriously both its food and its health and, as a result, its school lunches are a point of national pride — not a source of dismay. As other countries, including the United States, struggle to design school meals that are healthy, tasty and affordable, Japan has all but solved the puzzle, using a system that officials here describe as utterly common sense.
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