Posted on 09/04/2019 11:33:42 AM PDT by bgill
If fewer kids bring lunch from home, Austin ISD says it can improve the quality of ingredients it uses to prepare breakfast and lunch across the entire district.
Wednesday, the district’s food truck hit the road for the first time this school year. Its first stop is McCallum High School, where students will have the option of grass-fed burgers, among other bites.
The nutrition and food services department is working toward a goal of using only grass-fed beef in every school cafeteria, plus organic produce and milk. But in order to do that, it needs more students to eat the food kitchen employees fix every day.
This school year the district is encouraging parents not to pack a lunch...
The district also added schools this year under its community eligibility provision, which provides a free meal to every student in the school without having to fill out applications. That way, students are not stopping at the register and the line moves more quickly.
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Grass is what bovine beasts eat for most of their lives.
Eating grain at a feedlot is the final step to more tasty and tender beef.
Grass is what bovine beasts eat for most of their lives.
Eating grain at a feedlot is the final step to more tasty and tender beef.
LOL, I always think of the classic “Mr. Bungle” video, and how huge a piece of chocolate cake they got in the Cafeteria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XGG1NouAzg
I believe a common way of paying is to use a card system. Lower income parents don’t have to pay, but higher income parents do have to pay to put a balance on their kid’s card.
Goonie goo-goo
I don’t know when the last time you watched raw or any of his standup, but if it was a long time back, I suggest you pull it up on you tube. You will be stunned and amazed that today, there is no way in hell that would be allowed. Dhimmicrats would be protesting in the streets and burning the city down
Grass feed burgers for school kids is insane.
Thank you! So many on FR want grass fed. They’re clueless. That’s why you can’t get a decent steak anymore.
I believe many schools serve food during summer breaks too.
I probably still watch “Delirious” once a month and I laugh just as much now as I did then.
When comedians were still actually funny.
There is Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished, big difference.
I remember school lunches back in 1972, my last year in public school. $.40 and it was so bad that we had a movement to agree to pay $.50 and get a better meal. I just got my food from home. I used to call their “cheese” pizza a “Salt” pizza. It’s what it tasted like.
Most “Grass-Fed” cows finish with feed. It’s a fraud.
It wasn’t as if parents haven’t lied on free lunch applications for decades.
The higher the free lunch population, the more Federal dollars come to the district. Also test results (which are now the whole point of public schools) take into account the number of free/reduced lunches are served. The poorer you make your school look, the more goodies you get.
We’ve always packed lunch for all 4x our kids. It may not be cheaper, but it’s much better food. More control, fresher, less processed, and stuff our kids like and eat.
Big Food encourages it, got to get the kids hooked on high-carb garbage.
“If fewer kids bring lunch from home, Austin ISD says it can improve the quality of ingredients it uses to prepare breakfast and lunch across the entire district.”
President Kennedy once set what was thought to be a near-impossible goal: sending a man to the moon and returning him safely within a decade.
Now, our nation needs to openly commit to a much more difficult undertaking: teaching every parent within a decade how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich so their children can proudly say, “my parents are responsible and they love me so much they provide me food for lunch.”
"Where you get that big, welfare, green-pepper burger?"
*crying* "My mom made it."
I’m not sure that is an accurate characterization.
I pack my youngest son’s lunch every day. The stuff served at school was, is and will always be trash.
The whole idea of subsidized lunches strikes me as commie.
My mother got offended by the mere fact that the school sent home application forms for the free lunch program.
It was trash when I went to school too. We kids always used to make fun of it.
I recall at one time Jimmy Carter bailed out the turkey farmers after a bad year and we ate these horrible reconstituted breaded turkey patties three times a week for a year.
Like everything else government buys it was based on corruption. So quality was out of the question.
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