After the end of the Second World War, the food ration for adults was often no more than 1,000 calories. Many people, especially children, suffered from malnutrition. To deal with the hunger crisis, school meals with food from the respective army stocks were introduced in the various occupation zones. The guidelines for the implementation of school meals in Bavaria from April 17, 1947 state, among other things: "The group of people entitled to receive food includes all school-age children between the ages of 6 and 18 [...] according to a medical report. Children of self-catering families are not eligible to participate." According to medical reports, around 20% of the children examined were malnourished. In the British occupation zone, school meals from army stocks had already begun in March 1946. In Berlin, Hamburg and the Ruhr area, the so-called Swedish meals also provided food for small children between the ages of three and six, as well as students and apprentices at risk of tuberculosis and malnourished. In Bavaria, school meals were organized by the American occupation zone. The scale comes from the school meals in Schloßhof 7 opposite the castle building, which had been used as a school building since 1862.