I went to a Catholic school with no cafeteria. I know it’s hard to believe, but the parents fed their kids breakfast and packed them lunches. Imagine that.
Well not everybody can put a slice of bologna between two slices of bread.
Same here.
Decades ago, in Germany, on base, the first graders had to go home for lunch and then back to school. Our base housing unit was almost but not quite to where you got to ride a school bus. So up and down a steep hill and four flights of stairs every day was probably the best exercise I ever had. We weren’t allowed to bring lunch to school, even if it was difficult to get back to our classrooms on time.
The second-grade-and-up classrooms were in a building on the further side of the school compound, so they allowed the students to eat at their desks. Of course, that meant you had to bring your own food.