lunch programs
School meal services
Lunch programs are organized efforts to provide midday meals, typically to schoolchildren from low-income families.
In the United States, the National School Lunch Program subsidizes free or reduced-price meals in public schools: Millions of children depend on school lunch programs.
The term sometimes extends to similar meal initiatives for seniors or the homeless.
- school cafeteriaStudent dining facility
- cafeteriaSelf-service dining facility
- free mealsFood given without cost
- brown bagPlain lunch container
- subsidizedOffset by external funding
means tested · nutrition · trays · food stamps · children · eligibility · reduced price · federal · vouchers · serving line · milk cartons · poverty · Title I · SNAP · breakfast · meal tickets · income · hunger relief
- K-12 Schoolselementary school, middle school, high school, student, classroom
- public schoolselementary school, middle school, high school, kindergarten, classroom
- School Provisionsschool meals, cafeteria, school uniforms, uniforms, food service
- food aidfood assistance, food relief, food stamps, food pantry, food donations
- institutional foodcafeteria, hospital food, mess hall, chow hall, galley
- School Administrationprincipals, vice principal, school boards, assistant principal, headmaster
lunch programsfood insecurity
Uncertain access to adequate meals
hunger · starvation · malnutrition · benefit cuts · skipped meals
lunch programsbrown bagging
Bringing food from home
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