No child should go hungry.

The biggest problem is that the state and federal government is involved. If the school system follows their “approved” food list, then the food department gets money and free state approved foods to serve to the kids. The food department says that they need this because they don’t make enough money from the sales of meals with the number of reduced/free kids meals that are served. So, they feed them state approved prepackaged, over processed, pre cooked foods to meet the state approval requirements. They serve them sugar free, aspartame added syrup to go with prepacked waffles or premade French toast pieces (not even a whole piece of bread) to go with 1 piece of chicken sausage and a premade hard biscuit. (That’s just one example of a meal served in our district, I have many others from working there for years). Then if a kid is still hungry and they have money, they can buy reduced fat chips, fat free rice krispy treats, fat free hersheys ice cream (not done, commenting more⬇️

And they can buy zero sugar gatorades and powerades and those Ice flavored carbonated water things that have aspartame in them, all for the maximum amount they can charge. Last year for example they charged $2.25 for a small gatorade, $1.50 for a rice krispy treat. There is soy in everything fed to them. We had a kid with soy allergies. The only thing they could eat was either the precooked chicken nuggets (5 in a serving) or a salad. The breakfasts are just as bad. Prepackaged cinnamon roles or muffins, or a precooked egg patty with chicken sausage sandwich and American cheese. All they allowed for sandwiches was American cheese. The most processed cheese there is. Bacon is no longer allowed because of the sodium (it was precooked anyway), but processed ham lunch meat is still allowed (🤦🏽‍♀️). I have that app that rates products (yuka or yuba - I can never remember), and the only thing that rated good was prepackaged apple slices. It’s sickening and sad that no one listens ⬇️