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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who receive SNAP benefits should have to use a percentage on fresh fruits and veggies.[/quote]

Awesome. When are you starting a program to GET in season fruits and vegetables, means to cook and store them, and cooking oils and herbs and spices to SNAP beneficiaries???

I am so serious, I’m a local community advocate and organizer not far from NOVA I work with some food justice folks once you have this program going we will absolutely jump in and help, advertise and get it moving to other localities!!

Great idea PP![/quote]

Not so sure. Could lead to more food waste like the school lunch programs. Kids are forced to take fresh fruit and vegetables in the cafeteria and we see a lot of it go straight into the trash.[/quote]

Good point.

To add, cooking oil and spices aren’t a requirement to able to consume vegetables and fruit.  If you want to use oil and spice, then budget accordingly.  [/quote]

PP here they certainly are not a REQUIREMENT but if you want to REQUIRE people to use a percentage of their SNAP benefits on fruits and vegetables and you also want to treat people like human beings worthy of respect, kindness, and nourishing flavorful healthy palatable pleasing foods then those things would be added to any such program that truly had the best interest of people at heart. [/quote]

Yes, unfortunately delicious fruit is SO expensive. Kids are going to toss a pasty canned pear, mushy apples or brown bananas . Berries, mango, pineapple, grapes, cherries and watermelon are a different story. They perish quickly for school cafeteria purposes. 
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Perfectly fine [b]whole apples, bananas, and oranges and even grapes are regularly thrown straight in the garbage.[/b]  Even mango will be passed up in favor of extra slice of pizza[/quote]

Such a waste!  Are the students forced to get the fruit?  I understand we want them to eat it, but if it is going in the garbage, forcing them to take a piece of fruit is dumb.  The option should be made available but not forced.  Instead of throwing away uneaten fruit, can they put it in a bucket to be washed and given away?  Surely not all children dislike fruit.  Can teachers cut it up and use as snack?[/quote]

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