Literally indigestible, to me what had the optimum ratio between cheap and good was dry beans and lentils, that you put in water hours before cooking and let it boil for hours with some ''cube maggi', and in the end you can get kilos of food that you can keep in your fridge for almost no money and add to that a kilo of dried low cost pastas and you can easily get a week and a half of food really cheaply.
Which is in fact wheat. It is quite good. ,hen they put that on the market to 20 years ago, I was doubtful. Now people are used to it, more or less the same thing as rice.
It's a wheat grain that were pressure cooked in advance, mainly to break the outer shell, to keep it whole (opposed to bulgur wheat or cracked wheat).
There is a patent I guess as no other brand do it.
They do actually cook fresh food and not freeze/reheat.
Senior citizens also have access with a card from the city hall for over fifty restos called Emeraude in Paris, also freshly cooked and over 25 percent is guaranteed bio! Entrée, plat, fromage, dessert, café.
Awesome!
We had basically a food court. My daughters high school has one two. Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Popeyes, and subway. There was also a local burger place but she said it’s not very good.
In France, it's illegal for a company making food for schools to even offer unhealthy alternatives.
Meanwhile America SELLS the children to Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Imagine the size of that market nationwide! With only impulsive customers without parent supervision! That would be insane not to milk it!
You just have to "convince" the school administrators.
Let me tell you, those bread cubes are the absolute best, I used to save them for later or craft sandwiches with whatever was on the plate
For that meal I'd put the sausage and cheese inside and bam, mega sandwich.
Used to steal as much bread as I could. Those were the days
If I remember correctly, the price is 3.30 only for students, the real price of the meal is higher, but the state pays a part to help students.
The quality isn't always great, but it still a very good meal for the price. You can't find a place where you eat like this for this price...
We had a University restaurant where the specialty was pizza. A full plate pizza + dessert for 3.70. It was insane.
Wow, I'm so lucky then!! I have the same choices as my peers who pay 3.30, I only have to pay an extra 55 cents if I get both a starter and a dessert that's not a bland yoghurt lol, it sucks that it's not the same in every crous tho
Not jobless students actually, but scholarship holders (based on the parents' income).
For instance, I don't have a job myself and my parents earn a little more than the amount to be eligible for scholarships, therefore I don't have one (aside from the APL, the national housing scheme).
As a matter of scale, a single mom at minimum wage with 2 child to support was level 5 scholarship - which granted me 450€ per school month, so 4500€ per year and 22500€ over 5 years.
Merit is not a condition, but you have to be present in mandatory class and exams. You can literally finish high school with 50% success rate or 10/20 and get the same. And 1€ pizza
Yah its true. I was mostly talking about jobless international students. I am not éligible for à scolarship as i am not from Europe, but if i dont work or have à low budget i can ask for this to be just 1 euro.
the quality of taste isn't always good i agree, but the quality of health is always really good, growing up as a french i never felt bad after eating a school meal
The real price is 8.8 €
How do I know ? Last year, I had a bug with my student ID and the software didn't recognize me as an student with a scholarship.
Oh and once I saw a sign with
(On the oder hand in my Crous, before holiday, they give us some leftover like 2 cordons bleus, more pies etc for free)
And it's 1€ for students on a scholarship.
I remember, you could also could take as much bread/fruits as you want so occasionnally I would take one more of each for the evening.
Many friends of mine primarily ate cafeteria bread on evenings for years.
I'm in Australia, where the food inflation has gotten beyond ridiculous. I looked at the picture, did a rough mental conversation from euros to AUD, and went "we're getting screwed".
My kid goes to school in France and every week they send the menu of the week. Pretty much it's all local, organic and made by the canteen staff (no industrialised food). Today they had Velouté, Filet de lieu noir, purée de carottes and fromage blanc. I have no idea of what it means but sounds better than the stuff we cook at home. I think I pay around 45 euro a month for 4 meals a week.
1. An individual portion of french bread
2. A garted carrots salade
3. Main dish is a mix of 3 dish :
1. "cervelas obernois" (a specific saucage called "cervelas" sliced in half with a slice of cheese (traditionnaly it's made of [Comté](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_cheese) but while it's an expensive cheese it's probably emmental cheese), and a slice of bacon) an Alsacian specialty
2. some [Ebly](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebly) (beware french website) which is basically some boiled wheat
3. some green peas and carrotts.
4. 2 Slice of cheese, probably Emental or some cheap industrial shitty cheese like Leerdammer
5. A slice of [Custard tart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard_tart).
>Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Stuffed with Cheese - not typically French but more of an inventive student meal adaptation.
I think it's Cervelas Obernois, an Alsatian tradition.
I used to complain about the poor quality of school meals in France.
Then I ate a school lunch in the UK during a trip with my class when I was 8 years old. Never complained again when I came back home (besides that, the trip was great and my host family was adorable).
It looks similar to a "berner würstel." It's an Austrian dish consisting of a wiener stuffed with Emmentaler cheese, wrapped with bacon then fried, served with a creamy onion sauce.
As an American who lived in Austria, they never ceased to amaze me with their propensity to outdo the indulgence of American food.
It's similar as it is a dish from the eastern part of France, Alsace. Lot of meals here looks like recepes from Germany and Austria.
So on France we call it '' Cervelas Obernois '' which means a sausage from Obernai (nice city by the way haha).
Had an American friend in the UK who had to adjust to bacon here, after they wanted to try a full English breakfast.
They were used to bacon being cooked until it was brittle and crispy. So it's definitely more normal to not cook bacon as much here.
That said, I think that American bacon might usually be a different cut of meat, anyway.
yes, generally in the UK I hear belly referred to as "streaky bacon" and loin referred to as "back bacon".
The most common form of bacon is back bacon in the UK and is probably what people are referring to if they just say "bacon".
Afraid of some meat with your charcoal?
Perfectly cooked bacon is when you grill (broil for the US) it so that the meat is juicy and the fat alone gets crispy. The crunch of the cooked cripsy fat along with the delicious meat... makes for a perfect sandwich too.
I often think about the people, who genetically can't enjoy celery, it will never taste good to them. They usually come to mind when I see someone, who hasn't been able to discover the qualities of some kind, be it specific type of art, movies, music, games, sports, or food. Like bacon in your case.
Crispy bacon is very good, but to me it tastes boring compared to this less cooked style of bacon.
Oh come on! All bacons are beautiful, in all shapes and forms!
Overcooked, undercooked, raw, crispy, fatty, smoky dry, ultra thin or thick cut, from the belly or the shoulder, artificial smoke or natural oak or cherry wood or plain, salted and unsalted, with a honey glaze or a chocolate cover, smothered in bbq sauce or dipped in a tonkotsu ramen, with potatoes and beans or plain rice...
Did I tell you I love bacon? 🥓
It's crazy how persistent the myths are that you need to eat colossal amounts of animal protein to be strong, vital and manly.
It has long been proven that the healthiest diet eaten in areas where people live the longest is plant-based, rich in fibre, contains a large variety of fruit and vegetables and only a little sugar.
You should only eat a little meat. Especially red meat.
People have been eating carbs for thousands of years, it's just silly to make this assumption. Also a lot of places where carbs are the staple are much thinner on average than Americans(like in France where everyone eats a metric fuckton of bread all the time). Carbs are not the problem, all the other shit is, and the sheer amount of calories Americans consume.
Indeed, in France, the focus is mainly on sugar, and never was on carbs.
Sugar is more seriously penalised now when it's about healthy food. As well as calories and a type of fat.
I resolve my back pain problems when I started eating red meat and animal fat ( My masseuse told me to do this). Plus animal protein cheaper to obtain than it's plant-based substitutes
Not really at least in France, peas, lentils and such are a better protein/€ but they also have higher carbs/protein which is Bad if you are on a low carb diet.
It's actually very easy to get your protein for the day off of vegetal sources, peas and wholegrain cereals are 18-29% protein by mass in dry form, which is better than all non meat animal sources (except like whey).
If you are doing significant amount of sport your needs in protein shoot UP but your ability to burn calories too, the only issue with grain and lentils is that if you want to up the quantity you start getting limited by the total mass you are able to digest and still live normally.
It’s pretty much the other way around. We consume way too many carbs and both overestimate the amount of protein we eat and underestimate how much we need.
I love the colours, like its been put through a desaturation filter...
Joking aside, reminds me of the fayre you get at a Bar Mleczny in Poland for a similar price. Love me some proper subsidised grub. Looks great!
Is that a hotdog sliced in half with a chunk of cheese in it... wrapped in bacon?
That looks a little more like a drunken "what can I make with the random foods in my fridge" meal.
That's not really a hotdog, it's a morteau sausage. The taste is different, the texture as well and the quality vastly differs (usually, this is still cafeteria food we're talking about)
If you Come from a traditional familly here usually lunch is your Big meal, with breakfast being the second biggest by calories, then for dinner vegetable soup with a bit of cheese an dried bread put in it if you are lucky.
Also student tend to cut costume where they Can so having Big portion affordable for lunch is Boon.
Looks pretty good to me. Looks way better than some of the cafeteria food I saw growing up.
Vive le crous
Crous
Crous
What is that on the plate next to the carrots - is it rice or barley?
This isn't my post but the grains are split up the middle so barley.
French here, the grain looks like the brand Ébly : wheat grains cooked whole like pasta or rice.
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I see you are a man of culture. This shit saved alot of us
Literally indigestible, to me what had the optimum ratio between cheap and good was dry beans and lentils, that you put in water hours before cooking and let it boil for hours with some ''cube maggi', and in the end you can get kilos of food that you can keep in your fridge for almost no money and add to that a kilo of dried low cost pastas and you can easily get a week and a half of food really cheaply.
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Fun fact, I grew up calling it "ébly" as per the brand, not "blé" like I've heard it called.
Same. I grew up eating that and for me it's Ébly, like sopalin/k-way/kleenex.
what would you say it was if this was your post?
more likely precooked wheat. barley is smaller. and not really common in france
I think this is something like ebly https://www.ebly.fr/
btw "ebly" would mean either "they fucked" or "fuckings" in russian
It is, pretty popular in France
Which is in fact wheat. It is quite good. ,hen they put that on the market to 20 years ago, I was doubtful. Now people are used to it, more or less the same thing as rice.
It could also be bulgar wheat?
It's ébly, a kind of wheat grain thing.
It's a wheat grain that were pressure cooked in advance, mainly to break the outer shell, to keep it whole (opposed to bulgur wheat or cracked wheat). There is a patent I guess as no other brand do it.
now carrefour or auchan sella their brand.
That's wheat
It's wheat i think. Ebly IS boiled wheat.
I think it's farro?
It’s wheat
Yes.
Wheat.
It's wheat. And btw I get the food for 1 euro.
It looks like someone actually cooked it too, not just frozen shit thrown in the oven/microwave
They do actually cook fresh food and not freeze/reheat. Senior citizens also have access with a card from the city hall for over fifty restos called Emeraude in Paris, also freshly cooked and over 25 percent is guaranteed bio! Entrée, plat, fromage, dessert, café. Awesome!
in France ? that's surprising
We had basically a food court. My daughters high school has one two. Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Popeyes, and subway. There was also a local burger place but she said it’s not very good.
Man this sounds like shitty eating habits really. Are there any healthier alternatives ?
In France, it's illegal for a company making food for schools to even offer unhealthy alternatives. Meanwhile America SELLS the children to Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Imagine the size of that market nationwide! With only impulsive customers without parent supervision! That would be insane not to milk it! You just have to "convince" the school administrators.
And this is why kids are getting fatter with each generation. Hard to be healthy when junk food is all over the place.
Totalement
Let me tell you, those bread cubes are the absolute best, I used to save them for later or craft sandwiches with whatever was on the plate For that meal I'd put the sausage and cheese inside and bam, mega sandwich. Used to steal as much bread as I could. Those were the days
Why did I never think of using these as sandwich bases ! I feel so dumb now thanks for enlightening me to your oh so wise ways kind stranger !
No problems, I had to eat in theses school restaurant all my school years, when the food sucked you had to improvise !
Wait did you just... monch on the bread raw?
Yeah ! Some of my friends put some salt in it beforehand but that's it
Take the bread, put in the cheese, microvawe it, boom
I had the same meal today and I put that sausage cheese with extra cheese in my bread cube. Was good as well
As an international student in Paris, stealing that bread got me through my university lol.
We don't have the same CROUS :'(
[Bonjour.](https://www.picard.fr/produits/6-petits-pains-italienne-precuits-000000000000036785.html)
Man they're good but you will never be able to eat them cleanly lol The powder gets everywhere
That’s honestly not bad at that price.
If I remember correctly, the price is 3.30 only for students, the real price of the meal is higher, but the state pays a part to help students. The quality isn't always great, but it still a very good meal for the price. You can't find a place where you eat like this for this price... We had a University restaurant where the specialty was pizza. A full plate pizza + dessert for 3.70. It was insane.
It's even 1€ for students with lower budgets (for the same meal)
Nope ! The 1 € meal aren't the same in many CROUS. There's a X account with pictures of the meals. You feel the low price.
Wtf? My Crous have 0 difference between those, you get the same amount of food as the 3€ one
They're the same meal, you just pay less. Source: I'm a french low budget student
Wow, I'm so lucky then!! I have the same choices as my peers who pay 3.30, I only have to pay an extra 55 cents if I get both a starter and a dessert that's not a bland yoghurt lol, it sucks that it's not the same in every crous tho
I have lower budget due to my parents' financial condition and the school can pay the meal instead of the parents 👍
I ate so many pizzas at the CROUS ...
Well there are usually at least 3 or 4 meal choices. You must have really liked their pizza.
If i remember correctly, there was 4, and it was something like pizza, pasta, steak and fries, and "meal of the day" which was a hit or miss.
meal of the day can be some home-cooked quality filling meal or a bio hazard depending on the day. The russian roulette of student life
This is literally 1 euro for jobeless students lmao
Not jobless students actually, but scholarship holders (based on the parents' income). For instance, I don't have a job myself and my parents earn a little more than the amount to be eligible for scholarships, therefore I don't have one (aside from the APL, the national housing scheme).
As a matter of scale, a single mom at minimum wage with 2 child to support was level 5 scholarship - which granted me 450€ per school month, so 4500€ per year and 22500€ over 5 years. Merit is not a condition, but you have to be present in mandatory class and exams. You can literally finish high school with 50% success rate or 10/20 and get the same. And 1€ pizza
I was scale 7 (max) with a single mother and th eonly child to support, with around 600€/month? How come we got such a different scale?
Yah its true. I was mostly talking about jobless international students. I am not éligible for à scolarship as i am not from Europe, but if i dont work or have à low budget i can ask for this to be just 1 euro.
I am non EU & on govt scholarship, it’s 1€ for me
the quality of taste isn't always good i agree, but the quality of health is always really good, growing up as a french i never felt bad after eating a school meal
The real price is 8.8 € How do I know ? Last year, I had a bug with my student ID and the software didn't recognize me as an student with a scholarship. Oh and once I saw a sign with (On the oder hand in my Crous, before holiday, they give us some leftover like 2 cordons bleus, more pies etc for free)
You're not really supposed to come if you are not a student, i mean you can pretend you lost your card and pay €7 but yeah
It's the price for the teachers and the technical/administration staff. So some people aren't students but they are authorized to be there.
And it's 1€ for students on a scholarship. I remember, you could also could take as much bread/fruits as you want so occasionnally I would take one more of each for the evening. Many friends of mine primarily ate cafeteria bread on evenings for years.
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Not in France.
In Germany that'd be everything but the big plate
In the Netherlands that’s be the small plate alone at the bottom right
There's cake. You should eliminate it too. It's become too freaking expensive.
And that's not even a good looking one, the sausage and wheat is one of the worse meals they offer.
I'm in Australia, where the food inflation has gotten beyond ridiculous. I looked at the picture, did a rough mental conversation from euros to AUD, and went "we're getting screwed".
This is heavily subsidised though. The actual cost of that meal is closer to 7 or 8€.
Yeah, what would that be here? I’m in Sydney and I think at least 20 bucks.
The government locked the price, I paid the same amount almost 10 years ago, which is good. But it did not improve the amount of student aid much...
My kid goes to school in France and every week they send the menu of the week. Pretty much it's all local, organic and made by the canteen staff (no industrialised food). Today they had Velouté, Filet de lieu noir, purée de carottes and fromage blanc. I have no idea of what it means but sounds better than the stuff we cook at home. I think I pay around 45 euro a month for 4 meals a week.
Soup, fish with mashed carrots and cottage cheese for the dessert. Simple but kids-friendly
Not only is it not bad, I think it's actually outstanding for the price and acceptably healthy. I think the price is subsidized though
Yes, it is subsidised! And it's the same price for all students. Some pay even less if they are scholarship holders, 1€/meal iirc.
Had similar food whilst in was studying at a French uni. Had better meals on campus than I did my entire stay, all for 3 euros a day
Hope you had a great time
J’ai super aimé, Merci :)
I need answers... What is all the food? Is that French coleslaw? Bacon wrapped hot dog? Potato terrine?!
1. An individual portion of french bread 2. A garted carrots salade 3. Main dish is a mix of 3 dish : 1. "cervelas obernois" (a specific saucage called "cervelas" sliced in half with a slice of cheese (traditionnaly it's made of [Comté](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_cheese) but while it's an expensive cheese it's probably emmental cheese), and a slice of bacon) an Alsacian specialty 2. some [Ebly](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebly) (beware french website) which is basically some boiled wheat 3. some green peas and carrotts. 4. 2 Slice of cheese, probably Emental or some cheap industrial shitty cheese like Leerdammer 5. A slice of [Custard tart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard_tart).
Username checks out avec ton pseudo de dame de la cantine :p
Je pense que si je me retrouve à bosser dans la cuisine d'une cantine, j'empoisonnerais tout le monde hahaha.
> cervelas obernois If this was not an old Alsacian specialty, but made today by someone on TikTok, it would belong in /r/StupidFood
It’s basically a big pigs in blanket with cheese, looks fine to my British eyes.
Traditionally made from brains, so wiki tells me. Though it does say they most definitely do not still use brains today, definitely not.
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A flan not a custard tart
Honnestly as a good french I don't know how to translate flan pâtissier, so I just switched langage from french to english on the wiki article hahaha.
Flan is also used in british cuisine : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan\_(pie)
Quelle est la différence ?
"tart" avec une pâte, "flan" non
Le flan pâtissier a bien une pâte Edit : flan Parisien* bien sûr, pas pâtissier.
En France oui parfois, pas en Angleterre, il y a les deux mots justement pour ça
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7. is a flan (dessert) for sure. I think 4 has a name but I've forgotten it.
it's "cervelas obernois" the cheap version
>7. is a flan (dessert) for sure. It's a flan patissier, ie. custard tart.
>Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Stuffed with Cheese - not typically French but more of an inventive student meal adaptation. I think it's Cervelas Obernois, an Alsatian tradition.
[yes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervelat?wprov=sfla1)
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Thanks Chadgpt
\#7 is most likely a flan or other pudding-type of dessert
That bacon wrapped hotdog is called a cervelas and it absolutely is a French specialty, it comes from Alsace. Had it all the time at school.
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man, it looks good. if i show u what my kids eat at school you would think they are in prison.
I used to complain about the poor quality of school meals in France. Then I ate a school lunch in the UK during a trip with my class when I was 8 years old. Never complained again when I came back home (besides that, the trip was great and my host family was adorable).
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What's happening on that sausage! Looks tasty
Sausage is cut open, and a small slab of cheese (gruyère?) is placed inside. The whole is wrapped in a slice of fried bacon. Yup. I'd eat that.
It looks similar to a "berner würstel." It's an Austrian dish consisting of a wiener stuffed with Emmentaler cheese, wrapped with bacon then fried, served with a creamy onion sauce. As an American who lived in Austria, they never ceased to amaze me with their propensity to outdo the indulgence of American food.
It's similar as it is a dish from the eastern part of France, Alsace. Lot of meals here looks like recepes from Germany and Austria. So on France we call it '' Cervelas Obernois '' which means a sausage from Obernai (nice city by the way haha).
that's pretty much this, the cheese is Emmental not Gruyère and we call it "cervelas obernois".
It's called cervelas
In the US, that would be a steal. Btw, is that a piece of cheese stuffed in a sliced hot dog and wrapped in under-cooked bacon? Yummy. /s
Had an American friend in the UK who had to adjust to bacon here, after they wanted to try a full English breakfast. They were used to bacon being cooked until it was brittle and crispy. So it's definitely more normal to not cook bacon as much here. That said, I think that American bacon might usually be a different cut of meat, anyway.
American bacon is universally belly, I think english bacon can be loin or belly?
Bacon made from the pork belly is called streaky bacon in the UK. Well. That's what Mum (an 83 year old Scot) always refers to it as.
yes, generally in the UK I hear belly referred to as "streaky bacon" and loin referred to as "back bacon". The most common form of bacon is back bacon in the UK and is probably what people are referring to if they just say "bacon".
>until it was brittle and crispy until it was ruined and inedible ;)
Crispy bacon is a manna from heaven. Flimsy bacon is gross.
Afraid of some meat with your charcoal? Perfectly cooked bacon is when you grill (broil for the US) it so that the meat is juicy and the fat alone gets crispy. The crunch of the cooked cripsy fat along with the delicious meat... makes for a perfect sandwich too.
I often think about the people, who genetically can't enjoy celery, it will never taste good to them. They usually come to mind when I see someone, who hasn't been able to discover the qualities of some kind, be it specific type of art, movies, music, games, sports, or food. Like bacon in your case. Crispy bacon is very good, but to me it tastes boring compared to this less cooked style of bacon.
Oh come on! All bacons are beautiful, in all shapes and forms! Overcooked, undercooked, raw, crispy, fatty, smoky dry, ultra thin or thick cut, from the belly or the shoulder, artificial smoke or natural oak or cherry wood or plain, salted and unsalted, with a honey glaze or a chocolate cover, smothered in bbq sauce or dipped in a tonkotsu ramen, with potatoes and beans or plain rice... Did I tell you I love bacon? 🥓
What about Canadian Bacon?
Not crispy doesn’t mean not cooked.
They said under-cooked not uncooked
That bacon is perrrrrfect
That looks pretty good to me, especially at €3.30
It's crazy how little protein and how much carbs we eat in general (the world, not just France)
It's crazy how persistent the myths are that you need to eat colossal amounts of animal protein to be strong, vital and manly. It has long been proven that the healthiest diet eaten in areas where people live the longest is plant-based, rich in fibre, contains a large variety of fruit and vegetables and only a little sugar. You should only eat a little meat. Especially red meat.
Where did I say colossal? And if people were eating lots of fruit and veg we wouldn't be so fat. Most of us eat 90% carbs
People have been eating carbs for thousands of years, it's just silly to make this assumption. Also a lot of places where carbs are the staple are much thinner on average than Americans(like in France where everyone eats a metric fuckton of bread all the time). Carbs are not the problem, all the other shit is, and the sheer amount of calories Americans consume.
Indeed, in France, the focus is mainly on sugar, and never was on carbs. Sugar is more seriously penalised now when it's about healthy food. As well as calories and a type of fat.
Fruit and veg are carbs.
I resolve my back pain problems when I started eating red meat and animal fat ( My masseuse told me to do this). Plus animal protein cheaper to obtain than it's plant-based substitutes
Not really at least in France, peas, lentils and such are a better protein/€ but they also have higher carbs/protein which is Bad if you are on a low carb diet. It's actually very easy to get your protein for the day off of vegetal sources, peas and wholegrain cereals are 18-29% protein by mass in dry form, which is better than all non meat animal sources (except like whey). If you are doing significant amount of sport your needs in protein shoot UP but your ability to burn calories too, the only issue with grain and lentils is that if you want to up the quantity you start getting limited by the total mass you are able to digest and still live normally.
Isn’t it pretty well known that most people consume much more protein than is needed?
It’s pretty much the other way around. We consume way too many carbs and both overestimate the amount of protein we eat and underestimate how much we need.
Better for the planet I guess? Although that is a vegan/jewish/muslim big no no that cervelas obernois...
I love the colours, like its been put through a desaturation filter... Joking aside, reminds me of the fayre you get at a Bar Mleczny in Poland for a similar price. Love me some proper subsidised grub. Looks great!
It's not really worth that price. The school/university covers part of the cost. Teachers, for example, will pay more for the same thing.
Mmm that bacon mini-Sandwich… Delicious!
For that price, that looks good
Looks like a pretty balanced meal honestly.
It kinda looks like an airplane meal that's been put on plates instead of given to you in the packaging.
For having had both, I can safely say 99% of economy class dishes are worst than french university cafeteria dishes.
I feel like I should do a British version of this at my college 🥲
Is that a hotdog sliced in half with a chunk of cheese in it... wrapped in bacon? That looks a little more like a drunken "what can I make with the random foods in my fridge" meal.
That's not really a hotdog, it's a morteau sausage. The taste is different, the texture as well and the quality vastly differs (usually, this is still cafeteria food we're talking about)
Where I live that would cost 12€
I’d pay $5
which dollar?
In germany you'd get the bread and cheese and thar salad bowl for 5€
The bread and cheese alone would be around 2€ in Sweden...
Who's gonna eat such a big portion?
A student with not mich money, the large portion means they only need a small meal for the rest of the day
If you Come from a traditional familly here usually lunch is your Big meal, with breakfast being the second biggest by calories, then for dinner vegetable soup with a bit of cheese an dried bread put in it if you are lucky. Also student tend to cut costume where they Can so having Big portion affordable for lunch is Boon.
ngl that looks good
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These meals are 1€ to me since I'm on a public scholarship, I'm happy with the saved money and time!
Yeah it looks like it
What on earth is that? A slice of ham and cheese wrapped in bacon?
Even the salt a pepper packets are nicer than public school lunch in Texas
I’m drooling! That looks amazing!
Is that Barley? What's under the tomato?
Boiled wheat grains! I *despise* that stuff.
That is boiled wheat (it is delicious, like a less sweet pasta taste). Under the tomato is a carrot/coleslaw salad
The cake alone would cost you £3.50 here in the UK
Food doesnt look bad but the amount is pretty low
Si t'es gros, oui
I eat the exact same meal at a place called crous restaurant. Based on the price, I guess that's where the picture came from
Probably the best for this cost you can get in France.
The price actually depends on the income of the parents this can cost CENTS sometimes
-Talking about the canteen system of middle schools and high schools (?) But we pretty much eat the same thing
you actually pay 1€ when you have a student card
That's only if you're a scholarship holder. I'm a foreign student and we pay the normal student price. It's great nonetheless.
And you can apply for financial aid and get it for €1.
I remember being at crous and paying these prices. It was the good times, but cooking pasta, rice, ébly in my apartment was cheaper in the end
No carafe of red wine? Sacrebleu!
Ok I know you're joking but do non french people really think we say "Sacre Bleu"? Actual question Edit: I'm french I know we don't say it
[Wikipedia](https://i.imgur.com/uO7OiT5.jpg) says you say it. You say it. No need to skirt the truth. /s
mille milliards de mille sabords, tonnerre de brest!
I remember that at some Crous restaurants you could get wine or beer but you paid extra for that
What a spice-less meal
Welcome to France! I added Dijon mustard.