{"id":8494,"date":"2019-04-08T18:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcsrcs.com\/?p=8494"},"modified":"2019-04-09T18:41:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:41:25","slug":"school-nutrition-news-indiana-school-district-turns-unused-cafeteria-food-into-take-home-meals-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcsrcs.com\/newtheme\/school-nutrition-news-indiana-school-district-turns-unused-cafeteria-food-into-take-home-meals-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"SCHOOL NUTRITION NEWS: Indiana School District Turns Unused School Lunch Food Into Take-Home Meals for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indiana school district is taking steps to make sure kids have enough to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Elkhart Community Schools students usually get breakfast and lunch at school lunch food, but on the weekends at home, they may be without food.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where the South Bend-based non-profit Cultivate Culinary comes in: it provides weekend meals to a small group of students in the elementary school pilot program.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8496 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/pcsrcs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/school-lunch-news-1024x546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcsrcs.com\/newtheme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/school-lunch-news-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pcsrcs.com\/newtheme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/school-lunch-news-600x320.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pcsrcs.com\/newtheme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/school-lunch-news-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pcsrcs.com\/newtheme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/school-lunch-news-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pcsrcs.com\/newtheme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/school-lunch-news.jpg 1190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMostly, we rescue food that\u2019s been made but never served by catering companies, large food service businesses, like the school system,&#8221; said Jim Conklin of Cultivate Culinary. &#8220;You don&#8217;t always think of a school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It rescues the unused food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver-preparing is just part of what happens,&#8221; said Conklin. &#8220;We take well-prepared food, combine it with other food and make individual frozen meals out if it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty students will receive a backpack with eight individual frozen meals every Friday until the end of school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Elkhart Community Schools, we were wasting a lot of food,&#8221; said Natalie Bickel, student services. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t anything to do with the food. 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