The central idea of “When there’s no school lunch in St. Louis, food vans help fill the gap” by Allison Colburn, is that food trucks help kids who would normally eats breakfast and lunch at school who don’t have anything to eat over the summer. Now thanks to the food trucks kids can eat lunch and breakfast even when school is out now as stated in the article “What we saw last year is some of our children would count on us to be there every day.” So this proves that the trucks are helping a lot of kids so the trucks have become a dependable source of food. The trucks make it so all the kids get food because as it says in the article “WE made the vans more easy to spot because they are brightly colored and have the words ‘food and fun’ on the
