Nutrition Services
| | Good nutrition helps students learn. Lunches are available at all schools. Breakfasts are available at most schools. Menus are planned to meet federal and state guidelines for good health (such as reduced fat). Elementary school breakfast and lunch menus are published and sent home monthly. Middle and high school campuses offer a variety of food choices at multiple locations on campus.
Chico Unified School District provides lunches using the National School Lunch guidelines:
- 1/3 of the RDA for: CALORIES, PROTEIN, CALCIUM, IRON, VITAMIN A, and VITAMIN C.
- 30% or less Calories from FAT
- 10% or less Calories from SATURATED FAT
- With a FOCUS on high FIBER and low SODIUM.
- The Minimum Requirements for Calorie Levels for Grades K-6 are 664 calories for Lunch and 554 calories for Breakfast.
- The Minimum Requirements for Calorie Levels for Grades 7-12 are 825 calories for Lunch and 554 for breakfast.
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| | CUSD's Nutrition Services Department is excited to be among one of the first school district in the State to provide parents a convenient, easy and secure online payment service to deposit money into your child's school meal account at any time. This service also provides parents the ability to view your child's account balance through a web site called MyNutrikids.com. By having money in each child's account prior to entering the cafeteria, we find the lunch lines move along much faster so your child has more time to eat and be with friends. 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 purchased a breakfast and/or lunch within the past thirty days. | |
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| | | Elementary Breakfast | $1.50 | | Elementary Lunch | $2.50 | | Secondary Breakfast | $1.75 | | Secondary Lunch | $2.75 | | Secondary Lunch with Bonus Drink | $3.00 |
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| | Free and Reduced-Price Meals (Ed. Code § 49510; District Policy 3553)
Free and reduced-price meals are available to students eligible because of financial hardship. Confidential applications for free and reduced-price meals are available below, or at schools and the district office. You may apply for benefits any time during the school year. Participants in the National School Lunch Program will not be overtly identified (no special tokens, special tickets, special serving lines, separate entrances, or separate dining areas). Please take a moment and review our annual Letter to the Household, which explans the program and what qualifies for Free or Reduced Priced Meals.
**Every school year a new application must be completed at the beginning of the school year. Attached is the 2008-2009 school year application for benefits. Spanish application is also available. | |
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