In one of the previous threads about the school lunches this week, someone said that they were paying $3.00 per school lunch.
There is no way that the lunch in that picture (or the pictures of the crackers, slice of lunch meat, and cauliflour) should cost $3.00.
Maybe, districts should be investigated to determine where the money for lunches is actually going. Based on the various pictures of various school lunches, someone is benefitting.
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Bun 30¢, meat patty 50¢, half fruit 30¢, condiment packet 20¢ = $1.30.
There is no way it would cost $2.70 to prepare, fill, and wash the tray.
The local market just had good German Bologna on sale for 99 cents per pound. I grabbed a couple pounds, some on sale cheese, 2 heads of iceberg lettuce for 99 cents and a loaf of day old whole wheat bread. I worked out all the math and found that two decent “man-sized” sandwiches (not one slice of meat and one slice of cheese... no. A STACKED SAMMICH!) cost me about $1.25, total.
The money I save can go right into buying barbed wire for the low pasture so I can run beef steers there next year.