How To Build A Healthy Breakfast
FESTUS FOOD SERVICE
Helping Students Make Healthy Food Choices
Research shows that students who eat HEALTHY, REGULAR meals perform their best academically.
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Greater gains in standardized test scores
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Improvements in math, reading, and vocabulary scores
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Less trips to the school nurse and less absenteeism
Festus Food Service follows USDA guidelines in the planning, purchasing and preparation of all meals.
Students are provided balanced meals each day in age-appropriate serving sizes that meet federal nutrition requirements, while limiting fat and saturated fat. Meals include the fruits, dairy, vegetables, protein and grains that children need to achieve and maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle.
What’s for Breakfast?
A Festus breakfast includes four food choices for students that together comprise a complete breakfast. A student must have at least three items on their tray one being a fruit or vegetable.
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Entrée: Choose one(1)
Examples include the following:
Cereal and yogurt
Cereal and Graham crackers
Cinnamon Roll
Breakfast Sandwich
Biscuit, egg, cheese and sausage
Pancakes
Scrambled eggs & toast
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Fruit or Vegetable: choose one(1)
Examples include:
4 oz. of 100% juice
½ cup of fresh fruit or vegetable
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Milk: choose one(1)
Examples include the following:
1% white, skim white, chocolate,
Vanilla, cookies and cream or
Strawberry milk
Breakfast is served before school and may be purchased for $1.25.
Reduced breakfast is $.20 per day.
Second chance breakfast is available after 1st hour for students to purchase breakfast
to be taken to their 2nd hour class.
Festus Foodservice is a self-operated, self-funded program.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.