Do they still give you milk and a sandwich in primary school?

In the school I went to everyone paid a small fee per child at the start of the year and we got a little box of Dawn milk every morning at small break. No idea if it still happens.


I was in South America a few years ago and working in a Childrens home in Ecuador.
Every kid up to second level gets two food items per day.

When they arrive at shcool they are given a glass of juice (usually cold pineapple juice) a kinda biscuit thing, it's about the size of a nature vally bar but it's kinda like those breakfast biscuits. It's designed to release energy slowly over a few hours but also to expand in the stomach to keep you feeling full for longer.
A lot of kids would turn up for school without having had breakfast because there is a fair bit of poverty so they are given something to keep them awake and stop them from feeling hungry.

Then at lunch they all get a plate of Rice and Beans and veggies to keep them going for the rest of the day.


The little biscuit things are actually really nice, kinda like harder malted milk biscuits.

One day in the kids home the kids arrived back from school. Normally they arrive back, get changed, wash up and come sit at the table with the "House Tio/Tia's" (Uncle/Aunt) for dinner.
There was one kid called José who was about 5 and had the biggest apatite I've ever seen, the boy was like a hoover. He never stopped playing football or running and climbing so he was constantly burning calories so I guess he needed it to not fall down from exhaustion.
Anyway, normally José would be the first kid to the table and plonk himself beside Pearlita (the woman who ran the home) and wait patiently for dinner to be served and then politely sit there eating his food and telling us all about his day and what he'd learned and stuff but this one day he wouldn't come for dinner, he was just vegged out on his bed muttering that he didn't want to eat. So I go get Pearlita and tell her and she just knowingly nods her head and asks one of the older boys what was up with José.
Older boy, Oscar starts laughing as explains that at some stage of the day José found a load of the breakfast biscuits in school, some kids dont eat them and just end up dropping them in the yard, so jose comes along and collects about 7 of them and takes them out of their wrappers and wolfs them all down. Over a few hours they'd expanded in his belly and it was as if he'd eaten his weight in food so he could barely move by the time he got home. Poor little fella have to be given some senakot type thing to clear him out. Was back to himself the next morning though.