What's going on in Russian schools & hot meals

Hi,

Just wanted to give one example.

Poor Russian schools feed children with hot made from scratch breakfasts, hot lunches (hot soup made from scratch, second dish), salad and hot tea or cocoa or made from scratch fruit compote, nothing from concentrates or precooked.

Also, there are no snacks in between meals.

At the same time, in huge beautiful stainless steel school kitchens in US there no cooking going on.

Everything is prepacked and of course full of preservatives, colorants and other uneatable goodies for our children. I guess doctors will not be without work in the near future.

Thanks

Mike

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Thanks, Mike, for the comparison.

I am remembering that Maria Montessori founded the Montessori schools in poor inner city slums in Italy. The children were left alone all day.

She set up her school, and part of the curriculum was the children learned how and cooked healthy nutritious food for THEMSELVES.

This seems like a good approach for Home Economic courses - for boys and girls.

Here in the west, more and more people, particularly urban people know only how to put a frozen food pouch in water or the microwave :(

What is the connection with lack of basic healthy cooking with the epidemic of obesity, and awful diseases?

I am holding a vision of schools becoming inter-generationally connected... with maybe grandparents and other volunteers who know how and love cooking volunteering in the schools working WITH the kids learning and passing on the knowledge of HOW to cook and eat nutritious food.

Pat Crosby

845.434.3829

PatCrosby@gmail.com

http://HealthySchoolSnacks.blogspot.com


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