Panera is teaming up with the USDA to
provide cheap meals to needy children
who are unable to get free school meals
because of the coronavirus shutdowns
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Tauren Dyson
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/28/2020 10:39:58 AM
Panera is looking to feed hungry kids in Ohio who may not have healthy meals to eat because the coronavirus pandemic closed down their schools. During a White House press briefing, Panera CEO Niren Chaudhary announced the partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Children's Hunger Alliance to provide meals to needy children in the Buckeye state. The announcement is a part of an effort from the federal government to create public-private connections to help feed needy children who can't eat free meals at school due to coronavirus shutdowns. Starting April 6, the restaurant chain will work deliver 'ready-to-eat'
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hooter 3/28/2020 10:55:42 AM (No. 360801)
Pinto beans, corn bread, eggs, bread, peanut butter, oatmeal, gallon of milk. Boom just fed your kids for $15 for a week. If you can't afford that maybe you need reevaluate your life's plan
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
berthabutt 3/28/2020 11:06:46 AM (No. 360815)
I've read many headlines about school districts cranking out breakfast/lunches for thousands of kids during the shutdown. I tithe at church; I donate supplies to Fish Pantry; I prepare monthly meals for St. Vincent DePaul shelter here in Dayton, but I can't stop myself from wondering - with nagging irritation - why are there SO many families that can't or won't provide for the basic needs of their children? It's a huge budgetary burden on already strapped school districts, with yearly requests for increase to school taxes, just to make ends meet in a relatively high income district. But the thought of innocent kids going without food due to a parent's neglect or incompetence would be more than I could tolerate as a Christian! I pray for wisdom to grasp this conflict that the Lord take it off my heart & to serve without question. ' ' the poor shall always be with us ' '
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/28/2020 11:09:41 AM (No. 360817)
If you don't feed your own children, what are your priorities? Maybe the state should take those children away from such irresponsible parents? I'd bet those parents would act differently if they thought that might happen.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
curious1 3/28/2020 11:34:23 AM (No. 360843)
Get the government out of the uncostitutional freebies racket. It causes these situations. Its policies encourage the production of more children w/o dads. Which causes additional problems societally. But leftards claim they are righteous when causing all these myriad social ills. And fell good about themselves.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
curious1 3/28/2020 11:35:06 AM (No. 360847)
Fell = feel
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 3/28/2020 11:38:56 AM (No. 360850)
Whatever happened to, “If you teach a man to fish...”? Providing meals without accountability only breeds dependence on government.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 3/28/2020 11:48:24 AM (No. 360860)
I have been questioning the multiple programs that feed the children. There is so much overlap. Why is the Department of Education feeding these children when parents receive WIC, SNAP, private contributions, etc. DOE actually funds breakfast and lunch programs for these children. It goes on and on, programs overlapping that could feed the same child 6 times in one day. I never want to see a child go hungry, if this occurs when parents are receiving assistance for this child then at is call child neglect.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2020 11:57:41 AM (No. 360871)
Why don't their parents, with huge food subsidies provide their lunches?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/28/2020 1:16:30 PM (No. 360964)
I swear. If you can't cook you can't feed your kids so let the government do it. Has anybody in this country who isn't a chef heard of vegetable protein ? I am a Texas miscreant because I put beans in my chili I suspect that a yuge proportion of New Yorkwers can' even feed themselves let alone kids.
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I think this is great except for one thing that is really bothering me, What the hell is happening to all our food stamp money? The schools now have to feed our children two of three meals a day so where is the money going? Let me guess up their parents noses or into their arms or just paying for the joints or the pills? I understand that these pkgs of food are going to be pkged to last for 2 weeks. What do you want to bet that half of them will be resold on the streets
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Fireball27 3/28/2020 1:21:47 PM (No. 360974)
Isn't it against the law to let your children go hungry? I keep seeing and hearing about so many children not having food. Well who is supposed to be providing the food to THEIR children? Mom and Dad? Maybe some help from Grandma and Grandpa? We give them breakfast and lunch at school, and some schools give an after school snack. The parents get food stamps on top of that. Then the left cries that the kids are going to hungry during a shutdown? What about during school breaks like Spring Break, and Christmas? They even give them free lunch during the summer. If the parents aren't feeding and taking care of their kids, maybe they should have the kids taken away from them. I think that is the law. Child neglect is not right.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2020 1:36:37 PM (No. 360999)
#10, they trade those food stamps for cash, for cigs and dope.
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Goobermint schools do anything but teach the 3Rs.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/28/2020 2:37:07 PM (No. 361072)
This should go well... they provide cheap meals during normal times too.
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#10 reminds me of the John Prime tune that starts, "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes." Sad song, but not nearly as sad as a Texan who puts beans in his chilli. :)
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 3/28/2020 5:38:43 PM (No. 361167)
This is absolutely shameful. And yet, mush brains 45 and under will read this and think this is a great thing, just like all the other socialism that's taken over for real charity.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2020 5:39:52 PM (No. 361168)
I'm not a Texan, but chili has beans.
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You should see the list of schools who are handing out meals to children no questions asked. These are the same people destined to collect the most money from the stimulus checks; as in $500 extra per kid. Thousands. Then they get huge tax refunds. In the meantime the people who really could use some help won't see a dime. Will somebody please take a meal to an elderly neighbor?
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USDA’s SNAP program doles out food stamps to the the single moms of the needy children mentioned here. USDA takes no issue at all with food stamps being sold for 50¢ on the dollar or squandered on junk food and soda, because here they’re aiding a program that substitutes for another program where public schools hand out 2 or 3 free meals a day to kids already on food stamps. Why is the USA broke?