Pork and Beans
ポークビーンズ
🇯🇵 Straight from Japanese preschool & school lunch menus
What Japanese kids eat for lunch — cooked at home.
1,073 real kyushoku (school lunch) recipes developed by a licensed Japanese nutritionist: low in salt, big on vegetables, allergy-aware, and sized so the whole family can share.
Hi, I'm Aoi.
I'm a licensed Japanese nutritionist (kanri eiyoshi). For ten years I planned the menus and cooked lunch in Japanese preschool kitchens, and today my company plans school lunch menus for preschools across Japan. These are the recipes our kids actually eat, written so you can cook them at home.
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Rice, Bread & Noodles
Rice bowls, mixed rice, noodles and breads that anchor a Japanese school lunch tray.
243
Main Dishes
Protein mains: fish, chicken, pork, tofu and beans, seasoned gently for young palates.
188
Side Dishes
Vegetable-forward sides, salads and simmered dishes that get kids eating their greens.
237
Soups
Miso soups, clear broths and hearty vegetable soups served with almost every kyushoku.
262
Snacks & Sweets
Afternoon snacks (oyatsu) from Japanese preschools: lightly sweet, often egg- or dairy-free.
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Hot Cook (Auto Cooker)
Recipes adapted for the Sharp Hot Cook automatic cooker.
Allergy-friendly by design
Learn more →Japanese school lunches are built around three major allergens — egg, milk and wheat — and most of these recipes avoid at least one of them without tasting like "allergy food".
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Open the glossaryWhy school lunch?
In Japan, kyushoku is planned by a nutritionist, cooked fresh, and eaten by every child in the class. These are those exact recipes, scaled to a single child's portion.
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