The 3rd year group of Otori, where some students participated in the school lunch round-table conference, has been offering “easy food” since July. Due to the long-lasting COVID-19, in elementary and junior high school classrooms, "silence food" was commonplace to eat all in front of them and silently. It seems that everyone in the class decided to try "easy food" to have fun eating while facing friends by attaching a desk as in elementary school. ※Otori Junior High School's Unique Initiatives

• Mr. Nita
  "If it's fun, the taste of rice will be more delicious! In addition, I think it's a good condition to talk when I eat it, so I can deepen my friendship with my friends and expand my friendship."

• Mr. Imada
  "It's an opportunity to get along with those who were not in the same class at elementary school or in the first or second year."

• Mayor Yamanaka (hereinafter "Mayor")
  "We've been told that eating together is more delicious and fun. It's three years of an important junior high school, so I hope you enjoy your time in school lunch. (This is the catchphrase of the junior high school school lunch.) We would like to focus on making menus with the aim of creating something together, memories of eating, and all things."

In the large birds on this day, soups were offered on a trial basis in a canned manner.

• Mr. Mukai
  "The bowl was always different, and it was delicious with a lot of ingredients."
• Mr. Watanabe
  "I've already eaten everything (laughs). I remembered school lunch in elementary school."

The food cans were very popular.
By simmering the ingredients and juice together, the taste of vegetables and other ingredients becomes more soaked in the soup, and when the can is opened, the steam and the scent drift softly.…。 It's important to enjoy it with your five senses! The mayor said, "If we could promote the provision of soup cans for everyone school lunch from 2026 (Reiwa 8)."

Currently, school lunch has a choice system with home lunches, etc., but it seems that school lunch, a junior high school that everyone eats, will start in fiscal 2026. When everyone starts school lunch, their children will be reassured, they will be able to relax in the morning, and their parents will be very helpful.

• Mr. Kodama
  "When I become a junior high school student, I have a lot of luggage! I wanted to make the bag a little lighter, and above all, there was a burden (reduction) on my parents. I have lunch boxes for soccer on Saturdays and Sundays, so I think it's hard to get up early in the morning until weekdays. school lunch is easy to ask and has a good nutritional balance, which leads to better school life."
• Mr. Mukai
  "I used to eat my mother's lunch until the first grade, but in the second grade I made school lunch because I wanted to reduce the burden on my parents. When I actually tried it, it was very delicious, so I still continue to ask for it."

The mayor nodded greatly for this reason, and I explain that what they were talking about is one of the major reasons for all Yokohama to advance school lunch.

• Mayor
  "Is myself more than 35 years ago? It was a long time ago (laughs), but when I was in junior high school, I had my parents make lunch every day, and I thought I was burdening it. Morning time is very busy. I want you to use the time you were making lunch for another thing. If you have enough time, you can relax in your mind. I hope that each family will have a lot of time in the morning."

When it comes to the topic of the menu, various opinions popped out.

• Mr. Kodama
  "I like foreign menus. There is such a dish in the world, it's fun to realize that it's like this. I have learned through food."

• Mr. Nita
  "I'm not good at broccoli. But it's a waste to leave it, so if I eat it well, I'm not good at it recently."
• Mr. Imada
  "I had only my favorite lunch box at home, but since I was in junior high school school lunch, I started eating something I didn't like, so I didn't like it."

It seems to be an opportunity to overcome the menu that school lunch is not good at.
By the way, the menu that the mayor loves is "Developed menu of students". By knowing what you made (through the menu), you can eat more deliciously.

• Mr. Watanabe
  "There are many events to eat on special occasions and seasonal dishes, so I often know through school lunch, and it has been a catalyst for communication with my family, saying, 'Today is a day'."
• Mr. Yoshimura
  "I'm glad that there are quite a few Japanese event foods that I don't know, and that new knowledge will increase. I often think it's true that old people's way of thinking, such as Japanese event food."

Eat dishes that you have never eaten, lose your likes and dislikes, and expand your interest from the menu. school lunch seems to have become a variety of triggers.

• Mayor
  "One of the reasons why I want junior high school students to eat school lunch is the importance of 'food education' to learn various things through food. Not only will you eat something with a good nutritional balance, but you will be able to learn about world cuisine, traditional Japanese events, where and how ingredients are made, etc. Dietitians are carefully thinking about menus. I'm glad that you have been interested in various things through food."

• Mr. Nita
  「♪YO！ "Easy food", which will soon begin, everyone acquires the right to enjoy, YO! Let's have a fun time for everyone to enjoy school lunch again!"

At the end, Nita showed school lunch's lap, which was very popular in the class.
It was a meeting with a smile all the time. Actually, the mayor also eats school lunch every day, but he often eats alone.

• Mayor
  "I'm glad I could eat school lunch with you. After all, it's fun! Everyone eats while talking. I would like to evolve in various ways so that school lunch's time can be a memory of junior high school life."

"All things, memories of eating, all things." I think the memories of this round-table conference will be a lifetime.

Students who actually attend Yokohama Municipal Junior High School appear in the promotion video of the school lunch Junior High School (six students who participated in the round-table conference also appeared). Everyone enjoys eating school lunch with a lot of smiles! Remembering the youth of a long time ago, Jolo Li. You can also get a glimpse of the realistic school life of junior high school students in Imadoki, so be sure to check it out.

The Yokohama City Junior High School Lunch Official Instagram Account distributes daily menus, behind school lunch, and knowledge about food every day!

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RareA-Rarearia-[Yokohama Junior High School Lunch Infiltration Repo] "More delicious and more fun" approach the backside of the dietician's thoughts and menu development! (External site)

Yokohama-shi junior high school lunch site (outside site)