The pilot program was recently started at Woodland Elementary school, where students get breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday.
Cultivate gathers food that hasn't been served from catering companies, food service businesses, and now Woodland Elementary, WSBT reported.
"Over-preparing is just part of what happens," Jim Conklin told WSBT. "We take well-prepared food, combine it with other food and make individual frozen meals out of it."
The meals then will be given to 20 students every Friday from now until the end of the school year, the television station reported.
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Each week they’ll get eight individual frozen meals.
A local school district is taking steps to make sure kids have enough to eat. 20 students at Woodland Elementary will receive a backpack with eight individual frozen meals every Friday, made from unused food that may otherwise go to waste. @edernstes1 https://t.co/SbFqXNfpal
— WSBT (@WSBT) April 2, 2019
And it seems to be thriving. School district officials want to expand the program to other schools.
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