Since the shut down our school kitchen has been open and serving breakfast and lunch meals to the kids.


Not sure how it works.....but I think you were supposed to sign up and then wait outside for someone to bring the food to you.


I assume its bag lunch types of things. Probably no soup!


We did not participate. We live out of town....and it seemed silly to drive in to "save" money on cafeteria food.



For what ever reason.....the district has decided to employ the buses and drivers in a school food program for all the rural kids.


They are going to be delivering food to your bus stop. Not just the kids in school......every child in the house hold.


Also, a teacher will be riding shotgun to help deliver food and to hand out and collect school assignments.


Its a weird....brave new world!

Shake their hand.

I wouldn't take it unless I really need it. Those people thoughts are in the right places, however i doubt they practiced social distancing when they made it.

news around here had one of them deals on the other day. a line of $40k SUV's in line for box lunches. people can't be expected to take care of their kids these days so somebody has to feed them.

Mmm beef strokinoff, made with the lovin hands of hairy mole lady

Thats what the old lady and I are discussing right now.

I grew up on ketchup sandwiches and warm hose water.

Kids these days are soft.

Same program here in W. Montana. I have 2 boys and we don't participate. My wife and I had em, it's my responsibility to feed em. All we do is enable people, and make them welfare beggars.

We grew up on The Mayonnaise Plantation in Georgia, didn’t know about ketchup till I was 16,17

...now we had catsup, so we had that goin for us

Did you call the school and tell them not to deliver to your place?

She musta worked at my HS too. She have scabs on her forearms from getting burned on the hot plates?

No, my wife is a teacher, and she relayed my sentiments to the principal. They are not stopping by.

You had bread ?

Remember the good old days, when people felt the LEAST they could do for their own kids was to feed them??

Milk, bread, peanut butter, a cheap box of cereal, and 7 cans of Chef Boyardee. You can feed a kid for LITERALLY $10 a week.

These folks spend more than that on cell phones, tattoos, and scratch off’s....

We did not ask for the meals.

From reading your posts Jim I know that your kids are taken care of. But there is a lot of kids due to poor parents or parenting that school lunches are the kids main meal of the day. In a lot of cases the only meal they get so let’s hope safety is being practiced

Flathead Valley schools has had a backpack food program for some years now delivering backpacks to "kids in need" on weekends. Like what Jim is talking about they're delivering to designated points around the valley now because of covid19. But yeah, in most cases the parents are being enabled to ignore they're responsibilities.

In Whitefish they have a summer program of free lunches they serve at the lake and other spots. Basically anyone can partake so vacationing Canadians, tourists, hobos et al enjoy free viddles at tax payer expense.

The schools are doing this in the Mpls/St. Paul area. Local government, ie - schools have progressive parents so reliant on free food that it is downright embarrassing. Not only that, but they are using school busses to deliver the lunches at arranged stops.

There is truth here. The problem is a lot of parents could feed their kids, but are too lazy to do it. I know several cases of this first hand. We have created a generation of beggars who expect and demand that someone else feed their kid. Doesn't take much money or time to make pancakes for 2 kids.

Our taxes have prepaid for those meals, there is nothing charity about what they are doing...
With the property taxes I have to lay out over in the Flathead every year and the bulk of it going to the schools, I should be getting lunch via over night mail from them while I am in Florida.....

We are enjoying the hell out of having the kids here.


The darned meals they would bring out would be less nutritious and wholesome than what we cook all day..... by a long ways!


We sure dont need the food.......our food is better, and then there is the social distancing aspect.............hard to see a upside!


Aside from the fact that Young Daniel was gonna get to try out his new John Wayne lunch box............

Ya gotta ask your mom?

Haha!

i think this is part of a federal mandate, feedin the chillen, and local school districts don't have much control.
I do know it started long before the virus.
where a lot of the minorities live in phoenix, south phoenix, they have been delivering meals to the kiddo's for years
a large percentage of which parents are illegal.
great society.

It works like this^^^.

We may not have the money in govt to pay for cops and jailers but that is discretionary.

We can cut the military. We can cut the 2A. Welfare, working stupid slaves like us gotta pay.

Slavery never went away, it just went from the blacks and on to whitney's backs.

They are doing the same thing here in north west fl, and when I see the cheese wagon pull into a subdivision full or 250,000.00 plus homes I want to puke.Pop worked at at the paper mill for for 32 yrs till he had to retire and I or my 2 brothers never went without, if we did we did not know it. Do they need or want that 1200.00 or 1500.00 cell phone, get there hair,nails and toes done every week. Ya dang right cause they aint paying for it to start with.

Bringing breakfast and lunch to bus stops in rural az. Im guessing alot of kids who are left home alone are glad its going on. Parents still using state to feed their kids.

My wife is a school lunch lady and volunteered to serve lunches. When school was open she saw kids that the only food they got was at school and they really appreciated it. Don't know the backstory on them but seems odd that parents couldn't provide for the kids.

Anyway, she heads to the school mid-morning and helps make/pack a breakfast & lunch, puts in a bag, and loads coolers in her car. She has two locations where she sets up with 1-2 other ladies and kids get their meals. Protocol is only one person at a time and they have to use hand sanitizer before getting lunch. So far, no problem. She wheres a mask and gloves too.

She has noted that there are quite a few that don't seem to really need the food but it's posted everywhere about it and there aren't any recordkeeping so it's kinda a free-for-all. Understandable if you really need it but if not it's BS.

The stigma some of you are trying to apply to this school meal deal is completely unfounded.

Montana is doing this on my property tax dollars, the schools get 40% of those tax dollars.
The schools are closed, their expenses have plummeted to record lows.
I seriously doubt they intend on mailing me a partial refund of my tax dollars they will not be needing due to this.

They are employing cafeteria staff that would be at home on their azzes if it wasn't for this program.
Look at it as if you grabbing a meal is helping to employ people..

No one should feel bad for whatever the reason may be that they choose to get these meals...

It's far from anything that could even be faintly described as a charity hand out...

My dogs won’t even eat a Honey Crisp or Gala apple

They would shun me if I delivered one of those 3/4scale ‘school lunch apples’

I mean they’ll play ball with it, good for soft-mouth drills.

Been one on the porch since Christmas. And it was one of the Harry&David apples too.
But they’ll chew my damn Jimmy buffet flip flops, sombitches

It's federally funded and a cash cow for the schools.

They’re paying for it, you eat it. lol

Oh man!

What a relief. Since you approve I will stop worrying about it.

Bring on the lunch!

There is some kind of food system for Senior citizens too. Neighbor gave the wife a few meals of it, (frozen) and it was tasteless crap. miles

I have my doubts you were ever worried..lol

The only problem I have with it is that I could'd eat the schit they serve....

Thats why we want to opt out.

The kids are eating WAY better at home here.

Real meat...real cheese...loads of veggies and fruits.

Probably about .0001 preservatives and way less sugar and salt too.


School lunches are basically bulk TV dinners. Lotta bullshit in there.

Probably cause it’s low sodium.

Just because you're ok with it doesn't make it right. Just because you've already paid your property taxes doesn't mean the schools/govt might as well spend it. Of course they don't intend on mailing you a refund. That doesn't mean they shouldn't.

If I come in under budget on a project at my job, that doesn't mean I should go spend that money on something else.

It isn't really "something else", they been doing it all along.
They are just going to the kids instead of the kids showing up in school.

I'm just glad they are employing folks and feeding people on a dime I've already spent.

Actually its closer to 75 percent subsidized meals at our schools.

We is poor and need some food.

One car picks up kids and lunches......only has one window.

Does it say FREE KITTENS on the side or am I picturing this wrong?

The food is already paid for, much is already in the kitchens and the rest is being delivered anyway. They do long term contracts with food suppliers and much of it is government surplus. The staff is being paid regardless. If they don't give it away it will be trashed. Our local system does it Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. My son-in-law takes my 3 grandkids each of those days and they get enough to feed the whole family for a day or 2 each time. It is drive through style, they bring a bag of food out in a paper sack. They've been getting 1/2 gal of milk, (all in the 1/2 pint containers), a loaf of bread and other stuff that is not cooked. It is meant to take home and cook.

There are several other places where free food is available, or has been. I'm guessing some local restaurants have reached the point where they have food in stock that needs to be eaten or trashed soon. It is good PR to just give it away. Everything in GA is take out or drive thru only now anyway. Some restaurants work well like that, others not so. All Waffle House's of all places is closed until further notice.

They have to come get here, note the nice cars for the freeloaders

Welcome to socialism....

Breakfast and lunch meals at our county's schools have been free for all students for a good while now, regardless income status.

During this shutdown and parents/guardians so choose free meals are available either by pick up outside school entrance or home delivery via school bus.

I believe they've gone to a whole weeks worth of meals delivered or picked up on one day a week here now.

I grew up on ketchup sandwiches too but we had relatively cool spring water to drink although it was occasionally filtered through mouse hair. Maybe that's why we looked forward to Kool aid season each year.

I ate the ketchup sandwiches by choice to avoid the vegetables Dad grew in the garden. I hated that stuff when I was young and still do sixty odd years later.

Mom would say there was a funny smell in the water and we would go to the spring and take the cover off to find dead mice or a dead snake floating around on the surface. Dad would dip out all the water he could while it was still seeping in in the nature of springs and then he would scrub the field stone incasement with bleach and baking soda. We didn't think much about it, at least we had water and it was a step up from river water.

We all grew up healthy and seem to have remained that way for the most part.

A lot of our childhood would be considered abuse today I suppose.

The current generation is soft in many ways but they are becoming hardened to things we never imagined.

I have been poor enough to sneak into a high school cafeteria for a $1.10 lunch. Before Columbine it was easy.

Can’t say I ever want to be that poor again. Lol. The food was worse than I remembered!

Our local schools are providing 2 bagged meals per day for the whole week. It has to be picked up on Monday for the entire week. This is for any child in the county, they don't have to attend school there. All of the schools are doing it. There isn't an income basis for this.....during normal school there's a free lunch/breakfast based on income level....this one is for everyone.

A lot of the kids don't get fed at home. They eat 2 meals a day at school and that's it. You can argue the pro/con of not feeding them, economics, etc. I won't let a stray dog starve, I might shoot it if needed but I won't watch one starve.....I don't have much of a problem with feeding kids.

I do find it a little funny that some would call the folks in line with nice cars freeloaders......it's tax $ from folks like them that's paying for all of the meals. "WTF are those freeloaders thinking?...like they should be entitled to the stuff they are providing to be used for the entitled!!!!"

I had just graduated with a masters, went to work for a big tech company. We bought a 1500 ft^2 house, were driving junky cars, paying a ton of taxes and paying off student loans. The people across the street had cash jobs, drove brand new cars, and collected every kind of welfare known to man, including school lunches for all their spawn. Maddening.

Montana common sense, hard work ingenuity. Thats why I love it there

congrats you're a smart man. I think the majority of Americans, who have been living and spending above their needs, will be in for a real hurt within a few months. Shaking my head for years that people weren't preparing for this and even those with high incomes.