In addition to traditional breakfast foods, school breakfast menus often include such nontraditional items as peanut butter toast, breakfast pizza, soft granola bars, pancakes on a stick and various bran, fruit and nut muffins. Since the 1960s, Congress has believed that breakfast at school is a good investment in the education of America's young people. The price paid for a breakfast at school is less than half what you would pay at a fast food restaurant. Breakfast at school is a bargain because of the federal funds and the reduced costs to produce meals at school. Others may receive reduced-price breakfasts.
Schools receive federal funds for all student breakfasts.
State law requires some schools to offer breakfast. Over one-third of students who eat lunch at school also eat breakfast at school. About seventy-five percent of students in attendance at school eat a school lunch. Hundreds of Georgia's schools opt to provide breakfast at no charge to all students because they have realized the importance of breakfast for all students. Your school principal is an excellent resource.