School food directors and nutrition advocates lobbied Capitol Hill for an extension of waivers that gave schools more flexibility for how they implemented lunch programs. The effort was unsuccessful.
to summer levels for school food programs and granted more flexibility in how food is prepared and packaged.who heads the school nutrition program in Burke County, Ga., a rural district that has a high rate of food insecurity.
“We were able to give whole heads of broccoli and whole heads of cauliflower and unusual fruits and vegetables,” Martin says of her program. The economy of scale from bulk buying these ingredients was a win. “We could give much better food,” she says.Even though kids are back in school, Martin says many of her pandemic innovations are worth keeping. But the waivers that gave her that flexibility — and a boost in federal funds — are set to expire at the end of June.
The pandemic shone a spotlight on the links between poor nutrition and chronic illnesses such as diabetes and obesity, as well as the risk of serious illness from COVID-19, so Emanuel says initiatives that make child nutrition programs more efficient should continue. For instance, with the summer coming up and a return to the rules that require kids to be served meals in group settings, much of her budget will be used on transportation costs instead of healthy ingredients — sending buses around to kids’ homes where they will be required to eat on the bus in order to comply with the rules that kids are fed in congregate settings.
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