PSD Nutritional Services

Mission Statement

"To continually provide and develop a quality driven community Food Service program, consistently providing a variety of nutritious foods and services in a pleasant environment and promoting good eating habits through an efficient, customer oriented approach."

• Implementing the principles outlined in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

• Revamping children's old, favorite recipes with ingredients lower in salt, sugar, fat and cholesterol and higher in fiber.

• Introducing more fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains to students.

Because of their knowledge of child nutrition, Food Service managers know that growing children need more calories than adults. They plan meals high in carbohydrates to be sure they keep calories high while cutting fat and sugar. Remember this the next time you're concerned about the calories in your child's school lunch. Also, when you read your child's school lunch menu, remember, what seems like high-fat food may not be. Take hamburgers and french fries, for example. The ground beef is probably leaner than what you buy in the supermarket and the french fries are baked instead of fried.

What a Bargain!

Schools participating in the National School Breakfast and Lunch Program receive federal, state and sometimes local funds for each student meal they serve. This reimbursement makes up the difference between what the lunch costs to produce and what the student pays. Although the amount of federal reimbursement paid per lunch depends on the economic need of the student, reimbursement keeps the cost of Breakfast and Lunch low for all students.

Many schools also receive a variety of commodity foods such as lean ground beef, chicken, ground turkey and turkey roasts, grain and other products from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Often, these commodity foods are of higher quality than what you buy in retail grocery stores.

Thanks to this federal, state and local partnership, school food service programs offer a variety of well-balanced, nutritious meals at a cost much lower than a lunch of equal nutritional value brought from home or bought in a restaurant. That makes school lunch one of the best deals around!

Making Children Ready to Learn

Educators know it's true: Poorly nourished children have poor attendance, have short attention spans and lack energy. In short, children suffering from poor nutrition have difficulty learning.

By providing good-tasting, nutritious meals in pleasant surroundings and helping to teach students the value of good nutrition, your child's school nutrition program is an essential part of the education system.

General Policies
5-meal breakfast and lunch tickets are available for purchase every Monday morning before school in the cafeteria. A lunch ticket may be used for one lunch per day. If a second lunch is purchased in the elementary schools, please send $2.25 with your child to school. A 5-day lunch ticket is $11.25 Elementary. The price of each school lunch is $2.25 for Elementary and $3.75 for adults.

Any family interested in the free or reduced lunch program may pick up an application in the school office. Free or reduced lunches may be purchased by ticket only. No cash will be accepted for these lunches during the lunch period. The fee for a weekly reduced lunch ticket is $2.00. The reduced price of a combined breakfast and lunch ticket is $3.50. Children who receive free or reduced price lunches are treated the same as children who pay full price for their meals.  No child will be discriminated against because of race, sex, color, national origin, age or handicap.

The price for a Middle or Secondary lunch is $2.75. A Middle and High School Lunch ticket is $13.75 for five days. A combined Elementary breakfast and lunch ticket is $17.50. A combined Middle School Breakfast and Lunch Ticket s $20. A combined High School Breakfast and Lunch ticket is $21.25. Students may purchase any menu item ala carte'. Ala carte' items such as ice cream, soft pretzels range in price from $.50 to $2.50 each.

Menus are posted in the cafeteria and home rooms. Extra copies can be picked up in the cafeteria, or in the office. Credit will be given to any student who forgets their lunch money, lunch or milk.  A credit slip will be sent home with the student and the money should be sent into the cafeteria manager as soon as possible.

Lost Tickets
Parents of students will be advised in writing of the school's policy regarding missing meal tickets and their students' corresponding responsibility for their tickets. Such notice shall be provided to all households at the time they begin receiving or purchasing meal tickets.

A minimum of three ticket replacements or special meal arrangements resulting from three lost or stolen tickets will be allowed each student with each school year. The school will maintain a list of students who have reported missing tickets in the current year and the number of occurrences for each student.

At least one advance written warning will be given to the student and the parent (s) prior to refusal to allow additional meals or ticket replacements. The written warning will include an explanation that the subsequent time the student fails to have a ticket, the student will be expected to either bring lunch or pay full price for lunch.