Oslo breakfast

[1][2][3][4] The earliest known modern advocate for school dinners was Count Rumford, who oversaw a program to feed and educate children in late eighteenth-century Germany.

[2][3][4] The Oslo breakfast was the most famous of a number of similar worldwide developments in the 1920s and 1930s, for governmental and educational authorities to provide school children with more nutritious food.

[citation needed] From the 1930s to 1950s, programs based on the Oslo breakfast soon spread to other Norwegian cities, across Scandinavia, the rest of Europe, and to the wider world, including Australia and Canada.

[4] The children had lost the poor skin conditions common at the time, and had enjoyed a 25% gain in height over those not having the breakfast.

Schools found that running two meal programs reduced teaching time, and chose to eliminate the breakfast rather than the more popular lunch.