What is School meal?
[[File:Governor Jeb Bush sharing a pizza lunch with Raa Middle School students.jpg|right|thumb| Governor Jeb Bush sharing a [[pizza]] lunch with Raa Middle School students]] [[File:School lunch.jpg|thumb|A typical school lunch, in [[Sweden]]]] Many schools are organized in such a way that they last all day. Very often, the break at midday is too short for the children to return home, to get a hot meal. So these schools serve hot meals (also called '''school meals''', or '''hot lunches'''), usually around [[noon]]. Because they are only for the students, teachers and staff, some form of identification may be required to get in. Bigger schools have often adapted, so that the people get different menus to choose from. Common choices are vegetarian meals, or gluten-free ones. Also because the target group is limited, the meals are either provided free of charge (as their cost is covered elsewhere), or at a cheap price. Sometimes high-energy food is provided as well.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Aliyar|first1=Ruzky|last2=Gelli|first2=Aulo|last3=Hamdani|first3=Salha Hadjivayanis|date=5 August 2015|title=A Review of Nutritional Guidelines and Menu Compositions for School Feeding Programs in 12 Countries|journal=Frontiers in Public Health|volume=3|pages=148|doi=10.3389/fpubh.2015.00148|pmc=4524891|pmid=26301209|doi-access=free}}</ref> The ideas for providing school meals may be different from country to country: In [[Developed country|highly developed countries]], the school meal is a good source of [[Nutrient|nutrients]]. In [[Developing country|less developed countries]], offering a school meal (free of charge) may be a reason to send children to school and continue their education. They help children become healthy and productive [[Adult|adults]]. With this they break the [[cycle of poverty]] and [[hunger]]. == History == The first school lunches were served in Munich, in 1790. A physicist from America, Benjamin Thomsom, also known as Count Rumford, started them. Thomson founded the Poor people's institute, to make clot