School food programs will evolve over time. We can't just say that, now that there's funding, the programs are in place. Programs existed before. They offered fairly simple meals—often not a lot of vegetables or fruit—but they weren't very expensive. Now that more money is being invested, it's possible to improve the nutritional quality of what's offered. This will make it possible to provide these meals to more and more children in more and more schools.
Therefore, school food programs are not something that didn't exist before and now does exist; rather, they are something that has evolved over time. Knowing that funding will be provided year after year to expand these programs gives us the opportunity to effectively develop systems in which program managers can work together to purchase in large quantities or expand their infrastructure, among other things.
