Sometimes you don't even have to pay more. When we lived in France, we paid less than 3.50€ per day for my daughter's 5-course lunch. A few years earlier in a m

Sometimes you don't even have to pay more. When we lived in France, we paid less than 3.50€ per day for my daughter's 5-course lunch. A few years earlier in a much smaller town, we had a teacher tell us that if we couldn't pack a 'real' lunch (not PBJs, even though my daughter loved them then), she would bring an appropriate lunch for my daughter herself. At a school we visited in Paris, they publish the lunch menu along with recommendations for a dinner menu at home, to be sure their food didn't clash I guess. Now, back in the US, she complains that all they have at school is cardboard pizza, and that isn't a meal. Clearly she learned to appreciate eating a complete meal.