Achievement - Opportunity - Accountability
Food Services
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Debbi Beauvais, RD SNS
Shared District Supervisor of Food Services
SCHOOL NUTRITION NEWS FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR
Good nutrition is critical to student achievement. A well-nourished student will generally have better attendance, be more attentive, and have more energy to take on the day’s activities. The School Nutrition Service Program provides tasty, nutritious, and reasonably priced breakfasts and lunches to both students and staff. In the interest of better nutrition, we have reviewed our snack offerings and are paying closer attention to the nutritional content of the snacks we offer. Students will still have an assortment of a la carte snacks available to choose from, but overall the nutritional content will be lower in fat and calories.
For the first time ever, school districts across the country are being required by the federal government to raise prices for students who pay full price for lunch. Right now, school nutrition programs in the National School Lunch Program receive $2.72 for each complete meal served to students eligible for a free lunch. Over the years, the federal reimbursement for free lunches has gone up in small increments. However, most school nutrition programs, like ours, have not raised the price for paid lunches at the same pace – full-price students paid $2 for a lunch this past school year.
The new federal regulations, which take effect this coming year, require the average paid-lunch cost in a district to rise gradually over the next five years, until the average price equals the free-meal reimbursement. This year, that requirement begins to kick in for districts in which the average price for paying students is below $2.46. Thus, we are raising our prices 5 cents to begin closing this gap.
The price for a lunch at both the elementary and junior/senior high schools will be $2.05, and a half-pint carton of milk (skim, 1%, or fat-free chocolate) will be 50 cents.
Breakfast will continue to be offered daily. The breakfast price remains unchanged at $1.25; students receive a half-pint of milk, a choice of juice or fruit, and a choice of entrée (bagel, muffin, assorted cereals, yogurt, and hot items on occasion).
Lunch menu items available daily include yogurt, bagel, entrée salad, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, side salad, and fresh apple or orange. New this fall in the 7-12 cafeteria will be the ‘Made Fresh for You’ station, offering fresh, made-to-order sandwiches, subs, and wraps.
The menu for the first day of school (Wednesday, Sept. 7) is:
- chicken tenders with confetti rice, assorted sub, or other daily entrée offering (choose one)
- vegetable trio, Mandarin oranges, tossed salad, or fresh fruit (choose up to three)
- choice of milk
All students can have money for all school nutrition purchases placed into their MyNutriKids debit account. Set up your child’s account at www.mynutrikids.comif you haven’t already done so, and make deposits electronically. This site will list a 30-day history of student purchases, so if you want to see what your child is eating and how he or she is spending money in the cafeteria, check out mynutrikids.com. You will need your child’s student ID number to use this service. If you don’t know your child’s ID number, give the school office a call and they can look it up for you.
School Nutrition is on the Web! Look for monthly lunch menus, the a la carte price list, and other information on the ‘menus’ link on the district’s homepage. You can also contact us directly via e-mail at gclunch@gateschili.monroe.edu.
See you next month!
– Debbi Beauvais, RD SNS, Shared School Nutrition Services Director
District Meal Menus & Prices
Elementary Lunch Menus
Jr-Sr High Lunch Menus
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