Who gets what - and there are three leaders to feed as well - will be determined by drawing lots.
An outsider might find this scene slightly bewildering, but after a conversation with the course organiser, Bronach Rae, development co-ordinator at youth charity Fairbridge, things start to become clearer. The aim of this sparse meal is to teach young people the real meaning of poverty.
"Often, young people say, 'it's not fair' and, 'I haven't got everything I want'," she says. "And we say to them: 'Look, you are in the eight per cent of wealthiest people on the planet'."
The food on offer at the poverty lunch is a direct reflection of how food - and wealth - are unfairly divided across the globe. The meal's partakers are brought face to face with some tough questions, such as: if you have to sit and eat a good meal while others around you have nothing, how does that make you feel? How do they feel?
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