Posted on 10/19/2010 12:08:56 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
D.C. public schools have started serving an early dinner to an estimated 10,000 students, many of whom are now receiving three meals a day from the system as it expands efforts to curb childhood hunger and poor nutrition.
Free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch long have been staples in most urban school systems. But the District is going a step further in 99 of its 123 schools and reaching nearly a quarter of its total enrollment. Montgomery and Prince George's counties also offer a third meal of the day in some schools but not on the scale undertaken in the city.
The program, which will cost the school system about $5.7 million this year, comes at a time of heightened concern aboutchildhood poverty in the city. Census data show that the poverty rate among black children is 43 percent, up from 31 percent in 2007 and significantly higher than national rates.
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Who is calculating the Food Stamps in the District of Criminals?
Are they including the meals served at the schools when they calculate the food stamps for a ‘family’?????
I don’t think the food stamp people communicate with the school lunch people.
I think there is rrom for serious fraud in this mess. I think the ‘family’ is getting food stamps for meals that are NEVER prepared at home.
Who knows anything different?
ALSO—UNION workers are now working longer /overtime to serve the estra meals, I’ll bet.
Who wants to say different???
For $19.90 of staple foods you could easily make more than 400 pizza rolls worth of food, and it would be much more nutritious.
Eating bad is easy and convenient, but it is NOT cheaper.
Economically it makes no sense to say that the staple crops that went into the highly processed premade and often precooked food become less expensive when put into a brightly colored and highly advertised box.
For economic reasons I wanted to reduce my food budget. Instead of eating out or buying pre-made foods I went all staple crops and freshly made meals. I save over $100 a month, and as a side benefit, have lost over 10 lbs.
The kids are also probably eating lots of fast food as well and the only exercise they are getting is clicking the remote.
On this thread, I sense some anger at the children who will be recepients of this benefit. It is not the children's fault.
Here, have to share this conversation with a lib-in-law.
I’ve done some studying on entitlement fraud, and the left’s attitude towards it.
The left’s position on entitlement fraud is summarized as
“We don’t care how many are defrauding the system as long as everyone is covered that needs covered.”
My libinlaw vehemently denied that she didn’t care about the fraud, but went on to say “but it’s more important that people who need help get it”.
“Isn’t that just what I said?”
“Maybe, but it sounds mean when you say it.”
Please tell me where the heck you are shopping? Cheese is over $5 a lb, tomatoes are outrageous ect. Don’t make the mistake of assuming that I buy pizza rolls (or processed foods in general) just because I know the prices. I know how expensive it is to eat well because I actually cook my kids meals, all three meals, every day. No it does not make sense that processed foods are cheaper, but they are. I’m not the one that decides on the prices at the grocery stores.
the Soviet dream of children reared by the State is alive and well
As such it makes no sense that highly processed foods, processed by paid employees, who add high amounts of sugar and salt, and often pre-cook the food; then put it into elaborate and expensive packaging - packaging with logos and trademarks that are highly advertised - would have the resulting product be cheaper than the staple products that went into it.
I shop at the local Ralphs, walk my dog there daily after work. I can make myself TWO meals for less than $5. A frozen pizza is usually much more than $5 and is only one (bad) meal.
I use lots of rice and potatoes. Eat meat daily. I even get pre-grated cheese which is more expensive, but more convenient for adding to tortillas in the toaster oven while I cook rice and meat. If I wanted to get REAL, I would buy that 5$ lb of cheese and grate it myself!
Staple crops are cheap.
Processed foods are expensive.
Simple economics.
Can I buy the stapes to make buttermilk biscuits cheaper.
When I went on Atkins, I was shocked at how my food bill doubled because I couldn't buy the processed crap I usually bought.
Meat is not cheap where I live. Not even hamburger.
I agree that it makes no sense, but the price is what the price is.
At Meijers, I can buy 3 Red Baron Pizzas for $5.00.
Add into that the energy costs of cooking everything and your bill has actually tripled. At our local grocer you can buy 10 loaves of white bread for 7.90. to buy the ingredients to make this would cost more than twice that plus running the oven to bake it. I am not advocating eating junk just because it is cheaper but if you have $5 and a child (or more) to feed you are going to buy whatever will fill their bellies. For the truly poor, quantity is often the biggest deciding factor and nutrition is secondary.
Sales are different, and yes, a good sale or promotion or coupon - and all bets are off as far as expense.
But they WANT to hook you on the product at the sale price or promotional price, it is not that the actual item is cheaper, just that they are willing to sell it to you at a loss at first until you see the ease and convenience and taste of buying their highly processed crap - and when you buy it NOT on sale or promotion - they make their money back and more.
And the crap the children eat does not stick with them, so they are constantly hungry.
It doesn’t matter if Meijer is selling them below cost. I can buy them. That’s what matters.
Why not just have them sleep there took and the “parents” won’t have to interrupt their crack smoking or drinking at all....
I only buy it when it's on sale. See, I'm smarter than the stores.
The second burritos worth of pork peppers and onions is awaiting me putting cheese on a tortilla and heating it all up tonight.
I get Chicken breasts (with ribs and skin) cook them in their own fat from the skin, and I can usually get four for less than $8 and make four meals out of them. That is $2 worth of meat per meal and it is fresh chicken breast. If I wanted to go thigh meat it would be DIRT cheap.
“Not unless you are only doing something like mac and cheese... but you could make that yourself for cheaper too by buying noodles cheese and milk.”
The milk alone is more expensive than the mac and cheese.
“No not the nice cheese. Do you really think that is what is in that little powder packet?”
I never claimed to believe that there was ‘real’ cheese in that little powder packet. Oh and the ‘not nice’ cheese, isn’t real cheese either, it’s also highly processed, check the label.
“If all you did was make your kids rice and some tiny little slice of meat it would be cheaper than the processed stuff. Comparing a good home-cooked meal to a packet of ramen is worse than apples and oranges.”
Cheaper? Maybe, more nutritious? Where is the dairy, fruits and vegetables? I did not compare ramen to a good home cooked meal nutritionally, only price-wise.
“Even pizza rolls. You can make those for less in a deep fat fryer than you can buy them for.”
$4.99 for cheese
$3.29 for flour
$2.49 for oil
$3.99 for pepperoni
$1.99 for pizza sauce
??? to run stove to cook
Comes to 16.75
4 bags rolls @ 1.99 ea = 7.96
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