How rising prices are taking a bite out of school food programs | CBC News

Sandra Copeland of the breakfast program at Carson Grove Elementary School in Ottawa helps prepare food for students. She says she's had to get creative to stretch her budget as prices rise.She's the co-ordinator of the breakfast program at Carson Grove Elementary School in Ottawa. Every day she's responsible for buying food for children who rely on it to get through the day.

"I've been very touch and go on the oranges recently. Cheese has gone up significantly; the yogurt tubes, the price fluctuates significantly. Years ago, the children loved dragon fruit, so that was a nice treat. I can't do that sort of thing anymore," she told host Catherine Cullen. Seventeen new schools in Ottawa applied to join the program, which currently has 200 schools, and Hunter said her organization has been forced to maintain a waiting list for some of those schools."It's excruciating. It's unbelievably challenging to say no, to be able to draw that line in the sand. But we know we just don't have the sustainable funding to be able to grow those programs," Hunter said.

Carolyn Hunter of the school breakfast program at the Ottawa Network for Education says her group has to keep a waiting list for schools hoping to access funding for food programs. Moving forward, Field said the onus is now on the federal government to work with provinces to help create a national framework for a school food program. Currently, Canada is the only G7 country without a national school food program.That's something the federal government has started working on to change, following a 2021 campaign platform plank.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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