The emphasis on food security is no joke. A shocking large number of families in this country rely on schools meals to assure their children get an adequate number of calories.
One easy solution is to just have everyone swipe their school id card regardless of pay, but then we don't get to start shaming govt assistance early.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/51-100/db51_fig4....
[the lower the PIR (poverty income ratio) the poorer]
These children are mostly not malnourished, and in most cases their obesity could be solved (in the direct sense, ignoring why they overeat) by eating the same things in lesser quantities, at no cost to their health.
But cooking food at home is cheap as hell compared to paying for prepared food if only looking at the cost of the food or ingredients.
There's much more to weight than calories.
"Vegetable oils" are extracted from seeds, usually with the assistance of the petroleum distillate hexane. The polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) portion of these oils is very unstable, so the producers use steam to remove the rancid odor from their "food-grade" product.
The PUFA's in vegetable oil are cluster bomblets that destroy people's health. IMHO, vegetable oil should only be used as biodiesel.
> One should distinguish between the terms "freedom" and "liberty." Speaking generally, Freedom usually means to be free from something, whereas Liberty usually means to be free to do something, although both refer to the quality or state of being free. Jefferson's use of the terms almost always reflected those meanings.