Millions of American kids eat at least one solid meal every weekday courtesy of the federal government’s school lunch program but the Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General says too many tax dollars are going to waste with the effort, according to the Washington Guardian’s Phillip Swartz.

The Ag IG “found the National School Lunch Program, which subsidizes breakfast and lunch for 31 million poor children, wasted at least $1.7 million that could have gone to buy more food,” Swartz reported. “The review only looked at 18 school programs, suggesting the problems could be much larger across the $11 billion nationwide program.”