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School lunch programs hit hard by food prices

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kschase86

28 days ago

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WASHINGTON -- Add schools to the list of places hit hard by rising food prices. The school lunch program - long a reliable source of food for kids - is having serious trouble making cheap, healthy meals. The culprit is food prices that have rocket

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kschase86

20 days ago

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The school district that my youngest son attends just raised their breakfast and lunch prices. The breakfast price jumped from $1.00 to $1.25, which translates into roughly a $4.75 increase. The lunch price jumped from $2.00 to $2.50, which translates into roughly a $9.50 increase from last year per month (depending upon how many days the child attends.) If he eats both breakfast and lunch at the school, that will be roughly $14.25 more per month as opposed to last years prices due to increased gas prices to ship the food.