McConnell hopes Magic Breakfast can be part of far-reaching changes, including schools individually or collectively retaking control of meal budgets to sustainably fund their own breakfast programmes.
City Sickness was a pop symphony on a ready-meal budget.
The benefits of good sourcing policies is evident in research from the New Economics Foundation that shows for every £1 spent from the Nottinghamshire school meals budget on seasonal, local ingredients, a further £1.19 of economic activity was generated.
Advocacy groups for children and the poor have asked Congress to add $1 billion to the school meals budget, a figure that could help wean schools from vending machines and invest in simple equipment to prepare fresh produce.
If you live alone and receive $200 a month in food stamps (the maximum the government allows for a single person and the equivalent of $2.30 per meal), your budget remains unlikely to accommodate baby spinach and much of the healthy, essential, "good" food that in this city and so much of the country has become its own religion, at the levels of both culinary passion and public policy.
For instance, Janey-E — fulfilling with a stereotypical precision the role of the suburban housewife, concerned with the child, the meals, the budget, and the car, and who talks in domestic clichés to match — turns out to be tough-minded, bold, and courageous, able to stand up to bloodthirsty gangsters and face them down.
They plan family meals; they budget and scrimp pennies.
The ultimate meal on a budget would have to be a steaming bowl of Asian noodles.
"Did you enjoy your meal, sir?" With budget airlines, this deceit is dropped.
The gyro platter, with tomatoes, onions and lettuce beneath strips of a rotisserie-broiled beef-lamb mixture and lemon potatoes alongside, was a fine budget meal at $12.
