Food Services
Randy Wolfgang, Director of Support Services
Carol Alexander, Free/Reduced Applications Coordinator
Nutritious meals are essential to the growth and development of our children. Well- balanced lunches are available to your child on a daily basis in the school cafeteria. Penn Manor School District participates in the National School Lunch Program, which means that we must meet certain nutritional criteria when we serve your child lunch. Each lunch we serve offers your child: Protein, Fruits, Vegetables, Bread, and Milk. The lunch prices for the 2010-2011 school year as follows: Elementary-$2.05, Secondary-$2.20/$3.00/$3.25/$3.75, Reduced lunches-$.40, and Adult lunches-$3.40/$4.10.
Offer vs. Serve We encourage you to discuss menu selections at home with your child. Help them to learn to make wise nutritious menu selections. Your child may refuse 1 or 2 menu items as they proceed through the lunch line and still meet the requirements of the school lunch program.
Meal tickets (Pre-paid breakfasts/lunches): As a service to parents and to help students avoid lost or forgotten lunch money, lunches can be purchased in advance by either check or cash. Checks should be made payable to: “Penn Manor Food Service.” We will remind your child when his/her lunch ticket is getting low. Please indicate on the check your child’s name and grade. The cost for a full price meal ticket is $50.00 for elementary and secondary. The reduced price meal ticket is $10.00. In addition, pre-paid monies can also be used to purchase ala carte food items.
My Nutrikids Beginning in 2009, there will be no need to make separate payments (either check or credit card) for breakfast and lunch. All prepaid monies will be available for student purchases of breakfast, lunch, and ala carte. Also, parents will have the ability to print out a copy of their child’s eating history report. This history report will show you all dates and times that your child has made food purchases within the past thirty days. This service can only be utilized if the parent registers their student on the website MyNutrikids.com. These new services are available August 1, 2009. To access these services simply go to http://www.mynutrikids.com. From this site, you will create your account and add money to your child’s school meal account. All you need is your child’s name, student ID number and school zip code.
Free and Reduced Price Lunches Penn Manor School District has received the Federal Income Eligibility Guidelines for free and reduced price meals for qualified students and their families. These guidelines and an application for free and reduced price meals will be hand-carried home with your child on the first day of school. We will be using a multiple children application this year. Families with more than one child should list all children on the same application. We request that the application be returned to the school as soon as possible if you feel you qualify for these benefits.
Menu Each month your child will bring home a copy of the new monthly menu. In addition to the regular daily entree, your child can choose the alternate hot or cold sandwich (B lunch), a peanut butter and jelly sandwich(C lunch), or yogurt and string cheese (D lunch), offered daily. In addition, ala carte items such as ice cream, water, and baked snack items is offered on a daily basis for $.60 each.
New for the elementary schools in the 2010-2011 school year: Every Wednesday a Type “S” lunch will be offered. Type “S” lunch is a chef salad consisting of a bed of lettuce/salad greens and a dinner roll. The chef salad may include the following protein food items – grated cheese, ham, hard boiled egg, turkey, tuna salad, chicken salad. The Type “S” lunch will include the dessert and milk listed on the menu for that day.
Type “A” Lunch All Type “A” (reimbursable) school lunches must follow a meal pattern established by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The school lunch must offer the following:
1 cup fluid milk
3/4 cup juice, fruit, and/or vegetable
1 serving grains/bread
1 meat/meat alternative serving
This meal pattern has remained essentially the same for the past 60 years. Calories and saturated/unsaturated fats are monitored in school lunches, but newer trends in less protein and counting carbohydrates are not addressed in the school lunch program.
Penn Manor Food Services is proud of our ServSafe Certification: SERVSAFE CERTIFICATION (pdf).
