Oklahoma schools dealing with food shortage

SAND SPRINGS, Okla. — It's been a communal occurrence astatine restaurants and stores, a deficiency of nutrient items oregon higher prices for food.

For galore school-aged children, schoolhouse meals are needed to offset expenses for families, oregon it's a child's lone meal.

Sherry Pearson is the Director of Child Nutrition for Sand Springs Schools.

“It’s gonna assistance connected the broadside of market bills,” Pearson said.

But feeding school-aged children is getting harder successful greenish country.

Pearson said, “The manufacturers are choosing to propulsion the lines that are possibly not making arsenic overmuch wealth and proceed processing those that are."

Meaning the bulk of merchandise is being sent to restaurants and market stores earlier making its mode into the schoolhouse system.

“We’re struggling getting products successful that conscionable requirements due to the fact that we are mandated by USDA," Pearson said.

Now Pearson said her unit is having to travel up with antithetic ways to provender children portion staying wrong regulations.

Pearson said her unit has adjacent baked breadstuff from scratch, to marque definite it was a paper item.

The occupation is not constricted to Sand Springs schools.

“It’s not lone conscionable the district, it’s nationwide," Pearson said.

Tulsa Public Schools said they are "seeing shortages of nutrient and insubstantial goods."

TPS is adjusting menus to "make due substitutions erstwhile needed."

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