Current OCPS lunch/breakfast information

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Breakfast and Lunch

Well-balanced meals, including milk, are served daily. Monthly menus are sent home with the children. A child who brings lunch may purchase milk for 30 cents. No carbonated drinks, candy or gum are allowed in lunches. Tableware is not provided for students bringing lunch from home.

Advance payments for meals can be made on Mondays in the cafeteria. Send cash or a check made out to Clay Springs Lunchroom in a sealed envelope clearly marked on the outside with your child's name, teacher, grade, date and amount enclosed. If you send cash, please send the exact amount. The Lunchroom Manager will open and record the amount received. Your child is assigned a number to use when "charging" meals to a pre-paid account.

Students and parents are respionsible for either bringing lunch from home or paying for lunch on time. There will be no charges without parent contact.

LUNCH WITH YOUR CHILD: Parents are welcome to come and enjoy lunch with their children. For safety and health reasons, the following policies are in effect:

- Parents must sign in and get a visitor badge from the front office.
- Parents may go through the lunch line to purchase lunch.
- Parents may meet their child at the classroom door.
- Parents and their child only may go to one of the picnic tables on campus to enjoy lunch. Parents may not eat in the cafeteria.
- Parents and child meet the class at the classroom door at the end of lunch time.
- Parents sign out before leaving campus.

A member of the Lunchroom Team can be contacted at extension 2226.

Cafeteria Meal Prices

Breakfast:
Paid students $1.25
Reduced price students $0.30
Adults $2.00

Lunch:
Paid students $1.80
Reduced price students $0.40
Adults, regular lunch menu $3.00
Adults (salad bar or cmbo lunch) $3.00

Free & Reduced Price Meals

The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs as administered by Orange County Public Schools provides free and reduced priced meals for children unable to pay the full price.

Students from households who receive food stamps and/or Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) and who have a social security number on file at the school may be eligible for direct certification. Students approved by direct certification are not required to have an application on file.

Application forms are sent home the first week of school with a letter to parents or guardians. To apply for free or reduced priced meals, parents of students not approved by direct certification must fill out the application and return it to the school as soon as possible. Additional copies are available in the principal's office.

Children from households with incomes of less than or equal to the income criteria may be eligible for either free or reduced priced meals.

Important: A new application must be filled out at the beginning of each school year in order for meal benefits to continue. Meal benefits begin on the day the application is approved at the Food & Nutrition Services office and continue throughout the school year in which the application is approved, the summer, and approximately the first twenty days of next school year. Any student who does not have a current application on file at the school site will be unable to receive meal benefits after September 12, 2005.

If you have any questions, please contact Orange County Public Schools Food & Nutrition Services at 407-317-3966.

Nutrition Links

Visit these links to learn more about nutrition for your children:
www.nationaldairycouncil.org
www.5aday.com
www.mypyramid.gov