If you can figure out how to include real meat and still account for dietary preferences and allergies for the entire student populace for $2.15 a day then you should publish a book.

If you can figure out how to account for the dietary preferences and allergies for the entire student populace for $10 a day I'd call you crazy.

That's why we have multiple lunch lines, why they can say "no" to certain things, and why they can bring bagged lunches.

As someone who went to public schools and has food allergies, schools I went to just… didn’t account for students with allergies beyond “don’t include nuts.”

I have a kid with celiac.. he has eaten exactly 0 school food ever. They have never been able to make us feel confidence in their preparation safety.

We spend about $22,000 a year per student in California. A lot of it is wasted on well meaning but ineffective policy. I think we can afford real meat.

Can you provide any sources for your assertion that a lot of it is wasted? Do you have a percentage?

Why?

Extremely processed. Only choice is to buy it directly from a factory. I would like my kids to have real food options. The only way I can do that is to pack their lunch most days. They’re young so that works for now, but they will probably not be packing a lunch in high school.

It should, but I think you can see the correlation between climate activism and popularizing ultra processed food, by the downvotes.