I wish all the kids were as lucky as your kids were.
Is it too much to ask they get a decent lunch?
A lady I work with said several schools around here opted out of the federal school lunch program, don’t know if it’s true but there goes all their federal dollars for the lunch program if it is.
Well, at my kids’ school (this is 5-6 years ago), every once in awhile a parent would start griping about why OUR school lunches were $3.50/day, while the PUBLIC school lunches were only $1.50/day.
The principal would send them down to my kitchen, where they would get an education (and an earful) about the difference in quality between those two choices.
I explained to them that the $1.50 lunches were heavily subsidized by the feds, and that if we were to take that money from them POOF! would go the fresh ingredients. POOF! would go the handmade lunches. DOUBLE POOF! for the extravagant and spectacular (I blow my own horn here, I know...) Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter feasts. (BTW, those feasts — and they WERE feasts -— ALSO only cost $3.50. You would pay $35.00 or more for the same at any local restaurant.)
So yes, if a school opts out of the federal lunch program, then they will not get the money from them. Of course, doing so does leave you free to create and cook your own menus.
I prefer the freedom.
Regards,