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Pakistan
Most of the kids at the Bahria Foundation School in Rawalpindi have home cooked food for lunch. The principal tries to convince parents to make their children a healthy lunch.
“If we discover that a child has junk food, we ask his or her parents to please make a little effort for their child’s health,” Principal Syeda Arifa Mohsin said.
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Argentina
A plastic plate containing an empanada of meat, milanesa (meat covered with egg and bread), and potato at a school in Buenos Aires. In Argentina, most children have hot homemade lunch before or after they attend public school, which is generally taught in four-hour shifts in the morning or afternoon.
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France
The Anne Franck school in Lambersart serves a school lunch of rice, salmon, ratatouille, a slice of bread, a salad with celery and carrots, and an orange and donut.
AP Photo/Michel Spingler
United States — Washington State
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