Does Food Program Really Cover Food Costs?

[Blackcat31]

By the way, if you want, you can run off to Maui and attend a family child care conference in December where I'll be speaking for two days: https://zepedalearning.org/conferenc...i-hawaii-2016/

....and it's a business write off if we go right????


Hmm, I wonder if Michael would chip in for all of us to go!

[midaycare]

$1,200 is still better than a kick in the teeth! If you spent 5 hours a week doing Food Program paperwork and had four children and served breakfast, lunch and snack each day, you would be earning $8.72 per hour. I can't think of many other ways you can earn this much in your situation.

By the way, if you want, you can run off to Maui and attend a family child care conference in December where I'll be speaking for two days:

If you said to me, "Hey, take this client for an extra hour each day, and you will make almost $9 per hour, but have to stay open later," I'd say, "No thank you!" You are talking about the value of time vs. money. I value time more than money.

Now, if the FP could get me on the computer and I could do it during naptime, then yeah, it would be worth it.

As for Maui, I will have to skip that one - heading to an island off of Portugal in March happyface We do love to travel! I've been to Kauai, but not Maui. It is my favorite place in the world.

[AmyKidsCo]

I think it depends on your situation. In WI licensing requires the same food guidelines as the food program, so you might as well be on the food program and get reimbursed for the food you'd have to feed the kids anyway. But if you're not required to follow similar guidelines you may decide it's not worth it.

[TomCopeland]

Kauai

If you said to me, "Hey, take this client for an extra hour each day, and you will make almost $9 per hour, but have to stay open later," I'd say, "No thank you!" You are talking about the value of time vs. money. I value time more than money.

Now, if the FP could get me on the computer and I could do it during naptime, then yeah, it would be worth it.

As for Maui, I will have to skip that one - heading to an island off of Portugal in March happyface We do love to travel! I've been to Kauai, but not Maui. It is my favorite place in the world.

Yes, it's a good idea to value your time vs. money. Kauai is also my favorite island by far! We stay there every December.

[Unregistered]

I agree

Not at all. Honestly, with all the paperwork and then entering it onto their website, I don't think it is worth it. It is sooooooooooo much extra time and stress making sure they have just enough of this and that. Plus, I have families that don't allow their kids to drink milk and I have to still put it in front of them or get into trouble. So waste. Lots and lots of waste! The kids don't eat near all of what I am required to feed them. I am going to give it a try thru the summer (since I will be feeding so many more kids at each meal time). But I may not continue next school year.

I agree!! It all depends on what paying tier you are in and if you have parents in the higher paying tier. Time is valuable, and the amount received was far less than the cost for groceries as well as the time. I still do a weekly menu for my parents, but it says on there that it is always subject to change.