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"  Summer vacation presents a problem for many kids who are dependent on school meals to provide food that their families otherwise couldn&amp;#039;t afford. While meals are often still available at schools over the summer, some kids have no way of getting there and others are embarrassed to pick up the free summer meals. One executive food services director in New Haven, Connecticut, is helping to solve this problem by utilizing one of the latest trends, food trucks. According to NPR&amp;#039;s The Salt, Tim Cipriano created one viable solution for the summertime hunger problem. Cipriano explained, &amp;quot;To get the kids from the neighborhood to come out has always been a challenge.&amp;quot; So instead of making kids come to school for lunch, Cipriano set up a program that brings lunch to the kids. More From Delish: 24 Lunchbox Desserts Cipriano got the idea from the nationwide food truck fad. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s kind of the cool thing to do, to go to the food truck,&amp;quot; he said. Last summer the New Haven school system tested out the food truck by visiting different neighborhoods where kids qualified for free or reduced-priced lunches. The truck handed out 17,000 meals in 20 days using coolers and ice packs to keep sandwiches, fruit, and milk cold. This year the truck got a makeover. The brightly painted vehicle now has a generator as well as electric refrigerators. While the menu is the same, Cipriano hopes to add hot meal trucks that also feature salad bars in the future. Cipriano&amp;#039;s food truck success story has inspired other school districts to give it a try. In Indiana, Fayette County food service director, Siobahn Carey, read about Cipriano&amp;#039;s truck and thought it was a great idea. In her county, students couldn&amp;#039;t get to the schools where free meals were offered over the summer. Carey explained, &amp;quot;We have such high poverty, some of these people couldn&amp;#039;t afford the gas to bring their child in.&amp;quot; Carey has replaced the unreachable meal sites with food trucks, which will serve sandwiches, salads, fresh fruit, and vegetables. More From Delish: 17 Healthy Recipes for Kids Carey says the truck is already a success. Kids think the truck is cool and line up to meet it when it comes to their locations. The truck is helping even more children than a school lunch site would because anyone under 18 who lives in a neighborhood where most kids qualify for free lunch can grab a bite. Do you think food trucks are a good solution to feeding kids during the summer? How does your district handle feeding kids that qualify for free lunch over the summer?  Find more great food content on Delish: Search for the perfect recipe from our homepage Find out the latest food news Get a recipe book to save your favorite dishes Sign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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