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⬇️