10 most expensive and 10 cheapest school meals

School food has always been and remainsan integral, but often underestimated part of the learning process. Since lunch in the school canteen for most students have become paid, the issue of their price is becoming increasingly important. Experts of the site agro2b.ru made the rating of the most expensive and cheap meals in school canteens. We publish the main theses of the research.

In Russia there are no uniform standards and clear rulescompilation of the school menu. Municipalities can develop only recommendations, and the final choice of dishes always remains for a particular school. Formally, even in schools in one district, students can be offered a fundamentally different menu. However, in fact (especially after schools were banned from preparing meals themselves), catering companies offer schools about the same range.

Experts of the site agro2b.ru analyzed various options for school meals and selected a few typical dishes that are found in almost every public school. According to their version, the classic lunch in the school cafeteria looks like this:

• Potato soup with fish (250 g)
• Chicken breast with buckwheat porridge (100/150 g)
• Fresh vegetable salad (150 g)
• Beetroot salad (150 g)
• Bread wheaten (40 g)
• Bread of rye (20 gr)
• Tea with sugar
• An Apple

Further, the cost of each dish was calculated bybased on average market prices for each region of Russia. The cost of meals was summed up in the final price of a typical lunch for each region. The most budgetary result was a lunch of schoolchildren in the Kursk region.

The primacy of the Kursk region is absolutely natural. It is among the three most economical at once on two key menu items: because of the traditional cheap in the region poultry chicken breast with buckwheat is the cheapest in the country (exactly 19 rubles), and potato soup is the third cheapest (22 rubles 23 kopecks). The cheapest beet salad (only 93 kopecks) can be found in the Kostroma region, and a salad of fresh vegetables (3 rubles 97 kopecks) in Kalmykia. Because of the relatively small weight of these dishes in the total cost of lunch, both regions remained outside the top ten.

The most expensive region is the Chukotka Autonomous Districtmake primarily fruits and vegetables. So, the most expensive apple in Chukotka (26 rubles 8 kopecks) is more expensive than the cheapest in the Lipetsk region (4 rubles 97 kopecks) more than five times; and the most expensive vegetable salad (37 rubles 94 kopecks) is more expensive than Kalmyk (3 rubles 97 kopecks) almost ten times. A similar situation for other outsiders. It is noteworthy that the Sakhalin Region was among the top ten most expensive, even despite the cheapest soup (21 rubles 27 kopecks) - all because of the same vegetables and fruits. The most expensive soup (65 rubles 79 kopecks) is eaten by schoolchildren in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, and the most expensive breast with buckwheat (44 rubles 30 kopecks) is again in Chukotka.

Geographically, the cheapest and most expensive regionstend to the two poles. Among the first are mainly the regions of the Chernozem region with the adjacent Volga region and the Yaroslavl region, which stands slightly apart. And the second - of course, hard-to-transport regions of the Far East and neighboring Yakutia, as well as the circumpolar tundra autonomous regions. The presence of Crimea among outsiders should not be surprising. It is difficult to deliver products to the peninsula, which could not but affect prices. For example, Crimean potato soup with fish (52 rubles 60 cents) was the second most expensive in the country.

The cost of lunch in Moscow and St. Petersburgthe expert was not calculated separately, the Moscow region (82 rubles 40 kopecks) is located in the middle of the list, and the Leningrad region (88 rubles 35 kopecks) near the borders of the expensive dozen.

Taken from here.