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1515 Mid-Meadow Lane
Festus, MO 63028
636-937-7747
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Making Healthy Choices
FESTUS FOOD SERVICE BREAKFAST INFORMATION
Helping Students Make Healthy Food Choices
Research shows that students who eat HEALTHY, REGULAR meals perform their best
academically.
Greater gains in standardized test scores
Improvements in math, reading, and vocabulary scores
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 components on their tray
one being a fruit.
1. Entrée Example: Choose one(1)
Examples include the following:
Cinnamon Roll, Breakfast Bar, Or Cereal
2. Sides option Example:
100% fruit Juice or Fruit cup (required a minimum of ½ cup)
1 oz Belly Bears= 1oz Grain
Low Fat String Cheese= 1oz of MMA
3. Milk: choose one(1)
Examples include the following:
1% white, skim white, chocolate,
Strawberry milk
Full Breakfast example: Cinnamon Roll(2oz grain, Fruit juice(
1/2cup fruit), and 1% white milk (1 cup Dairy). The items
selected meet the minimum requirements for a breakfast meal.
Breakfast is served before school and may be purchased for $1.70 for grades K-6,
and $1.75 for grades 7-12. 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.
FESTUS FOOD SERVICE LUNCH INFORMATION
Helping Students Make Healthy Food Choices
What’s for Lunch?
Festus school lunch includes all five food groups. Meat/ Meat Alternative, Grain, Fruit,
Vegetable, and Dairy.
1. Entrée (Meat/Meat alternate & Grain):
Choose one(1)
Examples include the following:
Daily entrée special
Pizza Whole Grain crust
Cheeseburger on Whole Grain Bun
Deli sandwich
Salad Bar Meal
2. Grain: choose one
Examples include the following:
Whole grain biscuit, whole grain
Breadstick, brown rice,
Whole grain pasta
3. Vegetables: choose one
Examples include the following:
Fresh vegetables
Hot vegetable of the day
Tossed salad
4. Fruit: Choose one(1) grades K– 8.
Choose up to two(2) fruit or juice 9 th -12 th grade.
Examples include the following:
Canned, fresh or frozen fruit selection
5. Milk: choose one(1)
Examples include the following:
1% white, skim white, chocolate,
Vanilla, cookies and cream or
Strawberry milk
Students must choose a minimum of 3 components including a fruit or vegetable to
receive a complete lunch.
Example of a complete Lunch: Cheeseburger and 4oz fruit cup. This
combination makes a complete meal due to the cheeseburger counting for 2oz Meat/
Meat Alternative, the bun counting for 2oz of Grain, and the fruit cup counting for ½ cup of fruit. 3 components have been selected. Students are more than welcome to select one item from each of the five food groups to make a complete lunch.
Lunch may be purchased for $3.05 for grades K-6. For grades 7-12 lunch may be purchased for $3.10 Reduced Lunch is $.40 per day
Festus Foodservice is a self-operated, self-funded program.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.