December 2024 Newsletter

Meal Application Meal Prices Menus Online Payments Eat as many colorful fruits & veggies as you can! School meals offer at least two fruits & veggies daily, with a variety of legumes, dark green, red, & orange veggies served over the week. Drink more water and avoid sugar sweetened beverages such as sports drinks or soda! School meals offer four varieties of milk daily. Be Merry! The Fulton County School Nutrition Program Wishes You a Happy Holiday Season! Central Office will be closed for Winter Break: December 23, 2024 - January 3, 2025. School meal service resumes Tuesday, January 7, 2025, upon students return from the holidays. Sweet Potatoes? More like Sweet Potato-YAY This November, students enjoyed the delicious taste of local sweet potatoes featured on our school menus! These nutrient-packed roots were sourced from farms right here in our community, celebrating the harvest season and supporting local agriculture. Packed with vitamins and fiber, sweet potatoes are a superfood that fuels young learners while tasting great. We’re proud to serve farm-fresh produce as part of our commitment to healthy, sustainable, and flavorful meals. Student Taste Test Ideation with Land O’ Lakes at Riverwood High School! Our school nutrition team is always working to bring fresh, exciting flavors to our students, and recently, students had the opportunity to participate in a Land O’Lakes Student Taste Test Ideation event, where they sampled 7 delicious potential recipe concepts! Here’s what they tried: · Cheese Grits · Overnight Oats · Avocado Spread · Cheese Chicken Shawarma · Korean Beef with Woodles · Jalapeno Cheddar Bacon Spread · Jalapeno Popper Pizza The feedback from our students will help shape our future menus, ensuring we’re serving up the flavors they love! Since 2012, the School Nutrition Program has collaborated with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to host the Strong4Life (S4L) Challenge Program in all 59 FCS elementary schools. With the amazing success of the program, eight schools have been selected to benefit from the Strong4Life Challenge Program in School Year 24-25! Challenge Schools SY24-25: Cliftondale Elementary School College Park Elementary School Lake Forest Elementary School Liberty Point Elementary School Shakerag Elementary School Vickery Elementary School The Strong4Life Challenge includes two school visits held over one school year, during which time the Strong4Life Challenge team delivers wellness-related messages that are energetic, cool, and kid-friendly. The Strong4Life Challenge Program gives us a unique opportunity to further impact children by generating excitement around wellness in the cafeteria and school-wide. Additionally, the S4L Challenge program ties in with the District Strategic Plan for Community Collaboration and the District Wellness Policy. SY24-25 Café Job Openings We are now hiring for our Food Service Worker positions in North Fulton County. Click here for more info!