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In my area, they have been delivering two meals a day via school bus all summer long to kids. Additionally, there is a plethora of food service programs, both cooked and bulk food. The local veterans organization delivers food to those who are unable to get it themselves and there are people delivering meals to the hotels where they have housed the homeless population. When the mandatory social distancing order went into place, one of the local food programs switched from cafeteria-style hot meals to a drive through model (rain or shine, they were out there passing out food.)
My area is doing all those things, too. I've increased my contributions/donations to our local charities' food pantries because the need is greater. I like the idea of food handouts instead of Food Stamps, etc., because the food pantries only acquire or accept for donation, healthy foods. SO much better than letting Food Stamp recipients load up on sugary soda, chips, processed convenience foods, etc.
When i was little, my mom packed a sandwich, chips, and a drink in my lunch box.
Are parents so poor that they cannot even pack a cheap lunch anymore?
Do you remember what kind of lunch box you had?
I guess I was lucky in elementary school we got to walk home for lunch and mom always had us something ready, soup and sandwich or chicken pot pie was my favorite.
When i was little, my mom packed a sandwich, chips, and a drink in my lunch box.
Are parents so poor that they cannot even pack a cheap lunch anymore?
Now, the school "food police" would probably take that lunch away, and replace it with the school lunch. Because it contained no fruit and no vegetable. Was the drink milk? If not...unacceptable. And they'd send your parents a bill for the school lunch.
They tried that in a neighboring district...examined and took away the packed lunches from home if they didn't contain fruit, dairy, or a vegetable. Parents raised a royal ruckus about that, let me tell you. They never dared try that at the school where I work.
When i was little, my mom packed a sandwich, chips, and a drink in my lunch box.
Are parents so poor that they cannot even pack a cheap lunch anymore?
Lazy and/or greedy/gluttonous. Greedy/gluttonous, you say? Yep. The parents on Food Stamps get benefits for their kids, too, even though the kids are eating 2 or more free meals at/from school each day. So what happens to all those extra Food Stamps? The parents buy more food than they need and either the parents or the parents and kids overeat.
The USDA itself admits that those on Food Stamps, as a group, have a much higher obesity rate than everyone else. That includes even kids.
When my kids were little we were poor. Qualified for lunch and breakfast programs. But I managed well, cooked from scratch, while in college and working, and wouldn't sign them up. We didn't *need* it.
I was angry. This stupidity ended up at the school board. And if course the school staff took getting reprimanded out on my children.
Homeschool. It's actually less expensive than free public schooling, too
The school signed them up anyway. Without my okay. Staff actually made fun of my kids' sandwiches, on homemade bread, in front of them and others.
Lazy and/or greedy/gluttonous. Greedy/gluttonous, you say? Yep. The parents on Food Stamps get benefits for their kids, too, even though the kids are eating 2 or more free meals at/from school each day. So what happens to all those extra Food Stamps? The parents buy more food than they need and either the parents or the parents and kids overeat.
The USDA itself admits that those on Food Stamps, as a group, have a much higher obesity rate than everyone else. That includes even kids.
They trade them for cash.
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