FNS Documents & Resources

Before/After Elementary School Lunch Menu

In middle school, you have more say in deciding things for yourself. You can also help to make your school healthier. There’s a lot you can do to get more healthy food choices and more opportunities for physical activity for everyone.

There are short-term and long-term advantages to making healthier foods and regular physical activity priorities at your school.

At home you do what you can to make sure your kids eat healthier and stay active. But since they spend so much of their day in middle school, your influence is needed there, too. Parents are key to making middle schools healthier. Together we can influence.

The new USDA Recipes for Schools should be available for distribution beginning June 1, 2006.  States may order copies for all their School Districts and schools or they may forward the attached electronic order form to their School Districts so the Districts may order for their staff and their schools.  Copies will not be mailed to individual schools.  

The recipes from the 1988 Quantity Recipes for School Food Service and the 1995 Tool Kit for Healthy School Meals were revised using updated yields from the Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs and using the 2005 Food Code for the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points.