well in Latvia the school provided us with lunch (your parents had to pay for it weekly with a certain sum of money). I remember that school fed us good, it was always something I at least liked (pasta, different kind of potatoes, different meat products, salads, rice with chicken, soups, a desert). In the High school we had a cafeteria where you could choose your own food and pay accordingly, in the middle school they chose for you. I would usually chose fried potatoes (yes I am indeed a Latvian) with meatballs or chicken in curry sauce, plus some sort of salad, a drink and usually buy some sort of candy afterwards. I really cant say anything bad about it, food there was tasty, cheap and plentiful.