Free Lunches for all for 2026-2027 SY

[Anonymous]

Who will decide what is a nutritional lunch? Just look at the country's inability to agree on the value of vaccinations. The difference in opinion on effectiveness (or lack therefore) of RFK as Department of Health and Human Services. Look at the all the scams in the wellness industry. Also factor the potential for corruption, I mean lobbying, from food vendors that want their produce deemed healthy.

The answer isn't "experts" because people with fancy degrees can be bought (cough Dr. Steven Gundry cough) of faked.

We can't have nice things.

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Also the dichotomy between unhealthy bad tasting food versus healthy yummy tasting food is false. In most cases, it is closer to unhealthy yummy food (chips/fries, soda, burgers) versus healthy but not as yummy food (broccoli, spinach, milk). Students may eat less food if the available food is healthy but not tasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of country can’t even do the basics of feeding children? I 100% support this. It was great for so many reasons in the year after COVID. Whether a busy family working two jobs just needs a break from packing lunch or a kid is in financial need. We have a share table at our school as well which has been great. Kids drop the packaged items they don’t want and someone else always eats it.

Because there is no such thing as a free lunch. Budgets are zero sum games, until you raise taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of country can’t even do the basics of feeding children? I 100% support this. It was great for so many reasons in the year after COVID. Whether a busy family working two jobs just needs a break from packing lunch or a kid is in financial need. We have a share table at our school as well which has been great. Kids drop the packaged items they don’t want and someone else always eats it.

Because there is no such thing as a free lunch. Budgets are zero sum games, until you raise taxes.

totally fine. People need to see taxes in other countries that have nice things. We make $300k a year. They should tax us more. And definitely tax people above us more. I’m not being sarcastic.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of country can’t even do the basics of feeding children? I 100% support this. It was great for so many reasons in the year after COVID. Whether a busy family working two jobs just needs a break from packing lunch or a kid is in financial need. We have a share table at our school as well which has been great. Kids drop the packaged items they don’t want and someone else always eats it. [/quote]

Because there is no such thing as a free lunch. Budgets are zero sum games, until you raise taxes.
[/quote] totally fine. People need to see taxes in other countries that have nice things. We make $300k a year. They should tax us more. And definitely tax people above us more. I’m not being sarcastic. [/quote]

I'm pretty sure you can send in more if you like. Don't put that on the rest of the taxpayers.

[Anonymous]

My kids receive free lunch right now. It saves me a lot of time and money. It doesn’t cover extras though. My middle schooler likes to buy extras alongside the free lunch, which is fine, but adds up to maybe $30/month.

[Anonymous]

What if each child got a credit and then parents could use that to buy doordash or some healthy catering of their choosing or better yet the poor parents could use that to buy and make food for their own kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if each child got a credit and then parents could use that to buy doordash or some healthy catering of their choosing or better yet the poor parents could use that to buy and make food for their own kids?

This would be a win because parents like me could use the credit to pay for half a doordash subscription or a healthy food option like mighty meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another terrible idea

+1000 these fools think it could be "free."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Free lunch would be amazing!

There’s no such thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids receive free lunch right now. It saves me a lot of time and money. It doesn’t cover extras though. My middle schooler likes to buy extras alongside the free lunch, which is fine, but adds up to maybe $30/month.

Meanwhile, others not getting free lunch cannot allow their kids to spend the extra $30 per month on treats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Free Lunch for all but better food would be ideal. Also, free lunch isnt allergy friendly and 1 in 13 kids have a food allergy. Because most of it is premade or processed, they can't confirm ingredients and there is risk of cross contamination. There are also not Halal or Kosher meals.

This should just be called the fake forum instead of the FCPS forum. People just come on here and say completely untrue things They claim to be teachers. They claim into have eaten the lunch. They claim all sorts of things. Here is the menu and it’s very clear about Kosher and Halal. Enough bashing the school food for not being French cuisine. Hungry kids eat it and my students eat it and they take extra from the share table. https://www.fcps.edu/system/files?file=forms/2025-11/fns-es-lunch-menu.pdf

Theres miles of difference between “French cuisine” and the garbage on the menu you shared. Hummus, plain yogurt with fruit/granola, chia pudding, are all totally accessible foods that kids will eat and have more nutrition than “crispy chicken sandwich”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Free Lunch for all but better food would be ideal. Also, free lunch isnt allergy friendly and 1 in 13 kids have a food allergy. Because most of it is premade or processed, they can't confirm ingredients and there is risk of cross contamination. There are also not Halal or Kosher meals.

This should just be called the fake forum instead of the FCPS forum. People just come on here and say completely untrue things They claim to be teachers. They claim into have eaten the lunch. They claim all sorts of things. Here is the menu and it’s very clear about Kosher and Halal. Enough bashing the school food for not being French cuisine. Hungry kids eat it and my students eat it and they take extra from the share table. https://www.fcps.edu/system/files?file=forms/2025-11/fns-es-lunch-menu.pdf

Theres miles of difference between “French cuisine” and the garbage on the menu you shared. Hummus, plain yogurt with fruit/granola, chia pudding, are all totally accessible foods that kids will eat and have more nutrition than “crispy chicken sandwich”

My kid doesn't eat hummus or chia pudding (I don't eat chia pudding, disgusting). Maybe instead we should serve healthy things my child eats - like shrimp cocktail or California rolls? Or maybe things my older child would prefer like spicy Thai noodles? Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Free Lunch for all but better food would be ideal. Also, free lunch isnt allergy friendly and 1 in 13 kids have a food allergy. Because most of it is premade or processed, they can't confirm ingredients and there is risk of cross contamination. There are also not Halal or Kosher meals.

This should just be called the fake forum instead of the FCPS forum. People just come on here and say completely untrue things They claim to be teachers. They claim into have eaten the lunch. They claim all sorts of things. Here is the menu and it’s very clear about Kosher and Halal. Enough bashing the school food for not being French cuisine. Hungry kids eat it and my students eat it and they take extra from the share table. https://www.fcps.edu/system/files?file=forms/2025-11/fns-es-lunch-menu.pdf

Theres miles of difference between “French cuisine” and the garbage on the menu you shared. Hummus, plain yogurt with fruit/granola, chia pudding, are all totally accessible foods that kids will eat and have more nutrition than “crispy chicken sandwich”

There is literally fruit and yogurt every single day. Enough with random people posting who don’t know what they are talking about. Also the reason my kids don’t eat high school lunch is because it’s so popular that the lines take a long time and they just want to start eating. They enjoyed many of the elementary lunches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Free Lunch for all but better food would be ideal. Also, free lunch isnt allergy friendly and 1 in 13 kids have a food allergy. Because most of it is premade or processed, they can't confirm ingredients and there is risk of cross contamination. There are also not Halal or Kosher meals.

This should just be called the fake forum instead of the FCPS forum. People just come on here and say completely untrue things They claim to be teachers. They claim into have eaten the lunch. They claim all sorts of things. Here is the menu and it’s very clear about Kosher and Halal. Enough bashing the school food for not being French cuisine. Hungry kids eat it and my students eat it and they take extra from the share table. https://www.fcps.edu/system/files?file=forms/2025-11/fns-es-lunch-menu.pdf

Theres miles of difference between “French cuisine” and the garbage on the menu you shared. Hummus, plain yogurt with fruit/granola, chia pudding, are all totally accessible foods that kids will eat and have more nutrition than “crispy chicken sandwich”

There is literally fruit and yogurt every single day. Enough with random people posting who don’t know what they are talking about. Also the reason my kids don’t eat high school lunch is because it’s so popular that the lines take a long time and they just want to start eating. They enjoyed many of the elementary lunches.

*plain* yogurt. There is sugar filled, “low fat” processed garbage.

Of course “deep dish pizza” is popular with kids— that doesn’t mean it’s what they should eat all the time.

[Anonymous]

There is no point in serving weird food (chia pudding???) that no one will eat. What a stupid suggestion.