When I was in school, 1954-66, lunch was 25 cents and and milk was a penny if you wanted another, or if you only wanted milk for lunch.  It was a small town.  The kitchen staff gave lunches to any student who did not pay, or could not pay, no questions asked.  It was a 'system', or 'method' that worked.  What we students received at the noon meal was quite indistinguishable from what 4J will be doing for the morning meal, it seems to me, and it is as right now as the system in my day was operated.  The government has been subsidizing part of the lunch programs for everyone for a long time.  This is pretty much the same thing as it's always been, far as I can see, except that it's breakfast and not lunch.