Allowable expenses?

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OUCH on the $5 a day.

Just looked it up & I was wrong. Elementary $1.60, middle $1.75, High school $1.85. That is for an entire meal, but they can buy items individually and no clue as to how that breaks down

I did have my kids meal 'accounts' locked to be for meals only. They can only buy extras when they have cash/change for it. When my middle child first went to Kindergarden, I prepaid for ~6 weeks and could not understand why she got a 'low funds' alert about 2 weeks in. She had blown thru it by buying ice cream and other snacks.

And I learned a few weeks ago that the reduced price lunch is only good for getting the entire 'meal'. My daughter got parts of a meal, and was charged the per item price. Had it then fixed so she had to get a 'meal'.

My oldest child spends, well is allowed to spend, $5.00 on lunch. And he still says he's hungry. Kids!

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I did have my kids meal 'accounts' locked to be for meals only.

We can do that too. My second grader, he keeps going into the "snack" line and buying snacks. So, I only put money into "prepared meals only". Then two days later, someone at the school transferred the money all over to the "a la carte" category! Frustrating.

The $5/day is for the high school kids, the $2/day is for the 2nd grader.