A volunteer at Cultivate alongside the packaged meals that are sent to students in Elkhart, Ind., and other charity organizations that the nonprofit serves. By Kayla Epstein Kayla Epstein Embedded audience editor on the National desk Email Bio Follow April 3 at 3:36 PM Most kids look forward to the weekend. But for some students at Woodland Elementary School in Elkhart, Ind., it’s not always a happy time.
“It’s been a struggle as a mom,” she told The Washington Post. “There’s times where its been just peanut butter and jelly." Cultivate takes leftovers to its facilities, where a small staff and group of volunteers compile them into meals that include a protein, a vegetable, and a starch. They’re packaged in recyclable containers and frozen to maintain freshness, then placed in backpacks that are distributed by school officials to students in the program.
Cultivate had already begun piloting a school-lunch program similar to Woodland’s at the nearby Madison STEAM Academy in South Bend, Ind., Conklin told The Post. The group provides weekend meals for 100 students at that school, and the food comes from donors such as the University of Notre Dame, a partner, as well as local event spaces and catering services.
Good idea!! Doesnt Easter resources!
❤💙💚💛🧡 this!
Love this! Here in San Diego, sdschools has our very own 'Love Food Not Waste' program that was established in 2016 as a way for the San Diego Unified cafeterias to re-direct food waste. Instead of throwing out excess prepared food, we “recover and rescue” as much as possible.
cgafutbol It’s going to waste because it’s inedible thanks to Michelle Obama
Cattra922 This is what EVERY school district should do, along with letting kids have lunch without paying for it. Poverty-shaming kids is disgusting and we need to change.
it's about time and this could have been done decades ago!!
Yay!!
This is a great idea. I applaud whoever thought of this.
So, the money spent on feeding school children is now being spent on feeding adults....
Why aren’t the parents feeding them my parents were immigrants and working class poor and able to feed us breakfast lunch and dinner.
Thank You
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I see huge waste everyday. The students hate the processed food. It is unappetizing. We need real cooks back in our school kitchens. Instead of one kitchen helper serving up processed slop.
Why hasn’t this been done before?
How long before the liberals ban those containers?
Great idea!
This is fantastic
it is very wise.
What a brilliant idea
I much prefer this idea to what Republicans have done in the Bible Belt and cologop TexasGOP JohnCornyn SenTedCruz IowaGOP SenJoniErnst Cruelty just seems to be in their nature. coloradodems texasdemocrats iowademocrats PADems You can have both, not just stadiums.
a bureaucrat and a lawyer will no doubt put a stop to this soon
25 years of watching ALL leftovers/extras go home with lunch ladies.
SleibPubRelCDS Has our school district considered this option?
That natural self-evidents always take so long to become self-evident ... 🤔
How shitty must these parents feel that they can’t feed their own children so sad
Waste not want not. I love this!! Food should not be thrown out if it can be enjoyed by people that need it.
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Like it.
A lot of money went into that food from growing to serving. A huge insult to waste it after all the care. Feed the hungry.
This is such a great thing to do!!
Not to mention they are preparing to much if they have to throw away!
More proof that hunger in this day and age is a problem of distribution and a lack of compassion - not actual scarcity.
Should have been doing this all along
Food should never go to waste
Damn. And they say school lunches suck? That food looks pretty good to me. So now the kids get not only free meals at school, they get to take some home. Does the food stamps funds still stay the same? The families seem to be making out like bandits.
So many kids come to school hungry....what a great idea.
This is what we need now.
This is amazing and every school should do this.
How smart!
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