October/November 2009

Elementary & Secondary Lunch Menu

Elementary Breakfast Menu

Secondary Breakfast Menu

November/December 2009

Elementary Lunch and Breakfast Menu

Secondary Lunch and Breakfast Menu

Notice: 

As of 4/20/2009 - Precautionary measure has been lifted: Nutrition Inc. will begin serving peanut butter and foods containing peanut butter once again.  The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has informed Nutrition Inc. that smooth peanut butter is now usable in food service operations.

The third addition of the Dietary Guidlines for Americans was released in 1990 and triggered the new guidelines for school meals. The School Meal Initiative is designed to meet 1/3 of the dietary guidlines for children for lunch. All school lunches have an age appropriate calorie allowance, with less than 30% of the calories from fat and 12-15% of the calories from protein. 

School food service is the world's largest food service business, serving more meals a day than the fast food industry. School lunch has often been referred to as the original fast food operation: serving millions of lunches across the United States in a time span of 1 1/2 hours. The National School Lunch Act of 1946 established the National School Lunch Program to safeguard the health and well being of our nation's children. Studies found that the overall health of Americans was poor and many were malnourished. Minimum nutritional requirements were defined. Prior to 1946, school lunches were done primarily by volunteer groups serving mostly cold lunches.