🥬 Are These Cabbages Right Side Up… or Upside Down?

Upside Down or Right Side Up?

(Spoiler alert: Either way, they’re fed up with food waste.)

Let’s take a moment to talk about something very serious.

Cabbages.

Yes, you read that right.

Cabbages: the leafy green heads of crunchy wisdom that have seen things. And recently, they’ve been asking a pretty existential question:

"Am I right side up, or upside down?"

Honestly, who could blame them? Between being tossed into compost piles, left untouched on lunch trays, or ghosted by grocery carts in favor of shinier fruits, our cabbages are in a full-blown identity crisis.

And guess what? They’re not the only ones upside down—our entire school food system is.

🥄 A School Lunch System That’s Flipped

Here’s the reality check:

• Over $1.7 billion of school lunch food is wasted every year.

• That’s about 530,000 tons of food—tossed.

• Meanwhile, 13.8 million children in the U.S. live in food-insecure households.

Let that sink in like ranch dressing in a styrofoam tray.

We’re wasting perfectly good, nutrient-rich food (yes, even the misunderstood cabbage) while kids go to bed hungry.

That’s not just upside down—that’s completely inside out with a side of croutons.

💚 Enter the $5 Boost School Lunch Campaign

We’re flipping the system back to right side up—one $5 donation at a time.

The $5 Boost School Lunch Campaign supports programs that do things like:

• Fund fresh food initiatives in schools

• Teach students how to grow their own vegetables

• Transform food waste into food equity

It's like giving school lunch a plant-based superpower cape. 🦸‍♂️

🚨 Real Talk: What Can $5 Actually Do?

You’d be surprised.

• It funds a student’s access to fresh veggies

• It supports garden-to-cafeteria programs

• It helps us rescue our confused, upside-down cabbages from a tragic fate

Your $5 could literally be the reason a child tries kale for the first time—and likes it.

(It’s happened. We have proof. His name is Jalen. He’s 13. He’s a kale whisperer.)

🎯 Be a Food System Flipper

Are you tired of wasted lunches, sad cabbages, and confused produce identities?

Then it’s time to click here → https://givebutter.com/boostschoollunch

One click. Five dollars. A world of difference.Let’s right-side-up this food thing—together.

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