What is this decision communicating to children?  Society will pay for not only breakfast and lunch.  And implicitly, everything else they need.  Their parents are less important and apparently don't care about them because they can't buy a box of quality cereal and milk.   The great state will take care of them.  And the food cost itself is not a problem to me, I want children to be fed.  But  someone has to cook and serve it.  That adds to the cost and basically tells parents they don't have to take any responsibility to take care of their children in terms of the most important meal of the day.   Why not use food pantries or other avenues to distribute the food?  Parents still have responsibility to feed their children but they don't have to pay for the food.   They would need to make the effort of picking it up.

Of course someone say parents don't have the time to even pick up food or pour cereal--what percentage of people is that (.0001)?