I’m Swedish and I’ve gone to 5 different schools in different parts of the country and it definitely varies a bit from school to school. In general I’d say that the food is really good though, at least when it comes to nutrition. I think the main reason a lot of Swedish kids complain is because the schools usually don’t stick to just hamburgers/pancakes and stuff that most kids like. Instead they actively try to get the kids to try new things, which parents way too often give up on...
It feels like in USA the government trusts the parent to give their kids the right food for school, and in Sweden the parents trusts that the government will do it. Honestly I think it's better for the kids to have experts set the guidelines than the parents.
Hey I am happy coming across this video. It so reminds me of my school lunches and breakfasts. And now I am happy it is still the same quality in school and actually my daughters have the same chef cook in school as I had.
I come from a small town that had around 1k people living there at that time. We had freshly cooked meals everyday and i am so grateful for that. Also during cooking-classes, once a week, we ate what we made so nobody wanted to make a bad dish during those lessons. Easy to say that im eating way worse now 🙄
Truly grateful for being swedish having been served the swedish school lunches through out all my years in school. Offcourse I've not always liked every single meal but I have always eaten whats being served and also always been thankful and showing it at least by saying a simple "thank you" to the kitchen personel when dropping of my empty plate.
Brings back memories of school, everyone’s favourite meal was almond or breaded fish, with sour cream and dill sauce, (fisk panettter med filsås och potatis). And pork loin and deer casserole, (renskavs gryta, fläskfilé och pepparrotssås) we had the best salad bar and also milk on tap.
I miss those school lunches! I loved all the dishes except maybe the bloodpudding, but there were always other options. I'm 36 years old so this was 20-30 years ago
What stopped you from picking up everything and moving to Sweden after making this video? I love the insider perspective this video has. Truly felt like I was there. And, yes, no feeding bread to birds or ducks! Thanks so much for your videos they are opening my eyes.
Thanks for this video... reminds me of my time in school in a suburb in Stockholm, we always had good food (only thing i didnt like was fish balls) but what was good was that if u didn’t like the hot food there was always the sallad buffet, or crisp-bread or cereals with milk or yoghurt,...
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It varies a lot from school to school. My first school managed to ruin potatoes for 6 years straight (80-ies). While I'm sure we were provided all essential nutrients it tasted exactly like dirt. No exaggeration. Sometimes some kind of salad dressing, that I also didn't like the flavor of, was offered on the side. Super rarely we had brown gravy or meat stew to add flavor. But most of the time plain boiled unpeeled potatoes. No seasoning provided! The butter on the table... forbidden to use on the potatoes. Try and cut whatever meat we were provided into tiny pieces and mix with the potatoes, you would get yelled at! ALL the adults were super invested in not letting us try to make it edible in any way. At the time I thought it was for some adult reason that would make sense, some day,. But now in my mid 40-ies I'm still not sure what was going on.
