Hi, my daughter who is 7 will be starting school somewhere in Ontario in September (need to arrange house first!) Anyway, she wants to know if the schools over there provide 'school dinners' or whether you take your own snacks or if you have to go home for lunch?

Since living here in Germany, she got hot 'school dinners' at Kindergarten, but when she started the local 'primary' school, there was nothing as lessons finish at 11.15 or 12.15 daily, so there is no need for them. She was very disappointed (?? If they were anything like I remember, god knows why!!) Anyway, we see that school days in Canada are much longer, so we were wondering what happens there?

No food here, packed lunch.

I think it depends on the particular school. We send a packed lunch too.

Pizza and Hotdogs (healthy eh!) are available one day a week each. Whoo hooo.

My childrens school (grade 2 and 6) have food brought in certain days that you have to pay for (hot lunches, Quiznos, local pizza etc) that cost about $4 - $5 per lunch. It isn't mandatory and every year it seems local vendors vie for the right to provide the lunches. My kids like most of the meals except they took a pass on the pizza (they are pizza snobs).

What you need to keep your kids away from are the dehydrated noodle things (Mr Noodle). My kids tell me that their classmates bring them to school, open up the packet, smash it up a bit and then add the powdered flavouring to it w/o adding any water. They refer to them as noodle bricks.....

Like british pot noodles??? God, I couldn't imagine eating them dry - come to think of it, I couldn't imagine eating them at all - yuk!!

more like " super noodles" i think