March 2025 Newsletter

Meal Application Meal Prices Menus Online Payments FCS Cafes Celebrate National School Breakfast Week Use the clues to crack the case during National School Breakfast Week! FCS will celebrate March 10-14, 2025. National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) celebrates the importance of a nutritious school breakfast in fueling students for success. NSBW, at its core, is about promoting nutritious breakfast menu items in an engaging way for students. Students will be encouraged to show their enthusiasm for school breakfast as the district celebrates with Breakfast for Lunch, limited-time-only breakfast specials, a Lucky Tray Day, social media giveaways, and special Celebrity Servers serving up nutritious & delicious breakfast. For the whole month of March, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is devoted to providing nutrition education and information to the public. This year's theme is "Food Connects Us." Food is a connecting factor for many of us. Food connects us to our cultures, our families and our friends. Sharing a meal is an opportunity to learn about its preparation, who made it and where the ingredients were sourced. Health, memories, traditions, seasons and access can all impact our relationship with food. School meals take part in National Nutrition Month by providing meals that are nutritionally sound and offer all-inclusive meal options that fuel student achievement. For more information about healthy menus and meal pattern guidelines visit www.fcsnutrition.com. Fulton County School Nutrition Helps Tackle Hunger Aligned with the 59th Annual Super Bowl, Fulton County School cafes enjoyed Super Bowl themed activities February 3-7, 2025, including the 7th Annual Tackle Hunger Canned Food Drive. Each café had a designated donation box for canned goods or non-perishable food items. At the end of the week, 4,994 cans & non-perishable items were donated to the Bear Creek Middle School’s Food Pantry, BackPacks of Love, and North Fulton Community Charities. Backpacks of Love delivers backpacks of food and other needed items to 18 different schools in North Fulton counties. Thank you to all our donators who helped change the game & tackle hunger! Farm to School is RAD! During the month of February, the locally grown green beans served at lunch were part of Fulton County’s School Nutrition Harvest of the Month Initiative. These delicious, nutritious green beans are sourced directly from nearby farms, ensuring the freshest and healthiest options for our students. Because it’s grown closer to home it helps support our local farmers and takes less fuel to get it to our café. Not only are these locally grown green beans good for the environment, but also, they are great for your body, being an excellent source of vitamin A! Want more information about all the great things going on at Fulton County Schools? Click here to check out our monthly parent newsletter, “FCS Messenger.”