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.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
You should have seen pictures of what some schools had to serve under 0bama’s reign.
“My mother got offended by the mere fact that the school sent home application forms for the free lunch program.”
My mom cried the first time she used food stamps at the grocery store. I was pushing the cart.
L
“Oh, health laws require we dispose of any remaining burgers.”
Health laws be damned, the old school lunch ladies would be turning that into meatloaf or chili the next day :)
Is this not insane? How about if the parents take responsibility for providing meals for their children?
There is something wrong with this picture!
Do schools get more money if they have to feed more children? It is time to stop this nonsense.
Why, yes! Yes, they do!
A nearby district (probably this one, too) offere YEAR ROUND FREE MEALS, for anyone under the age of 18 (may be higher age, now, FAIK).....compliments of OUR tax $$$.
Lol...the good ol days!
“...grass-fed beef in every school cafeteria, plus organic produce and milk...”
Follow the money ... times 10 the cost of meals going to a Progressive Crony Capitalist!!!!!!!
I think you have that backwards.
#30. Today you have Grass-Fed burgers and Grass-Smoking students & teachers too.
There must be something to this “grass” thing. Wonder what it is.
Calling Cheech and Chong. You are wanted on the FAQ line.
Yup!.. and employs many more people on the taxpayers dime having NOTHING to do with education other then the indoctrination of “we know whats best for you to eat” and your parents are stupid....
and here I was thinking I'm the only one in the US that could do that....
a few of my keys are...Gourmet ice cream.....overpriced “snacks”...lots of them...and meals that can be cooked in a microwave or a fry pan in less then 5 minutes....but for some reason they still drink cheap beer and wine...
The big deal in grade school was the lunch box itself....like back packs today. Otherwise everybody swapped the food .
Started school in a one room
schoolhouse in northern
Minnesota, 1960. After entering
the front door, coats, rubber
boots, and mittens on one side,
lunches with your name on the
paper sack, on the other. Heavenly
aromas of lunches filled with
homemade apple pie and sandwiches
made from freshly baked bread.
The highscool seniors (there
were two), chopped the firewood
for the stove in the center of
the classroom.
Our school bus was a 1948 buick.
With all the snow in that part
of Minnesota, it never got stuck,
and not once did they cancel
school because of the snow.
How far we’ve come.
Agreed...
Yeah, the good old days...
demonratcommiescumbagposturdsinthepunchbowl are full-O-carp.
How are these loony idiots going to grass-feed burgers.
I’ve been around Burgers most of My 59 years and I’ve never seen a burger that consumes grass.
Maybe Michelle Obama could give them some suggestions on how to improve the food so kids wouldn’t need to bring their own. /s
stay out of the kids lunch box...
Let’s all be completely dependent on the state. Great idea!
Just more control by the schools.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.