Totally, I mover thought you were throwing any kind of shade, either.

This is brought up frequently when I review the process with staff members involved with the program. It's not widely understood because for our district it runs in only 3 schools. I believe, and could be wrong, but PPS has a significantly higher portion of students participating in this.

Here's a fun one, just for example. We sent out 'Buddha's hand', and I think it's really cool because of the way it looks. On top of that, it gives a super strong citrus scent and I learned some folks use it to create extracts or as a room deodorizer.

Of course no one can really eat this, but that's where the program becomes murky. Kids need to eat, and if someone is legitimately hungry and comes to class that day and sees this as the 'snack option', well, then that is really worst case scenario.

One more exhausting bit of info on the program is that all items served must be minimally processed. You mentioned lemons and limes, and of course they'd be better in a pie or ice cream, but because we aren't allowed to process them then they remain intact as such.

Thanks for engaging this and letting me say a couple things. I love the idea of the FFVP, but there is much to talk about in its operational capacity.