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JHS Lunch Prices - updated 8/17/11WHS Lunch Prices - updated 8/17/11
WJHS and WHS cafeteria: Need
to know
Nutrition Notes
Value
Your Veggies: An ongoing
promotion of nutritious vegetables throughout the 2011-12 school year –
updated 8/19/11
Attention Junior High and High
School Students – To win the chance to receive a Speeding
Bullet Lunch Pass for the entire month of April 2012, fill in the
answers to this short quiz and place
in the large envelope found in the library or computer lab. You will find the answers to the quiz by
selecting Value Your Veggies above and going to the Green Leafy
Vegetables page. Good Luck!!
Families Receiving Free or
Reduced Price Lunch: You will
want to read this newsletter from
Ellyn Satter, expert in child nutrition.
Flavored vs. White Milk –
UPDATE 8/19/11
Beginning the 2011-12 school year, all schools will be offering flavored
milk cartons that are fat-free only.
White milk, either fat-free or 1%, is also available.
The flavored milk has been re-formulated to reduce sugar content by 19
percent. Sucrose (sugar) has replaced
the high fructose corn syrup.
We are pleased to continue to offer our students flavored milk as an
option. Milk, whether flavored or
unflavored, remains the most nutritious beverage choice at lunch for our students.
A recent study of 58
schools that have eliminated flavored milk in their lunch program reveals a
dramatic drop in students drinking milk.
For a good summary of this issue, please review Flavored
Milk in Perspective by the National Dairy Council.
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Forms to apply for free lunches or reduced-price lunches are available in
your student’s school office, the district office, and on the district
website. If your family qualifies for
the reduced-price benefit, the price is only 40¢ per lunch. This information is confidential. Because the information is coded in our
computer system, the students appear to be charged for their lunch in the
cafeteria the same as all other students.
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As a parent, are you apprehensive about selecting safe classroom snacks
when there are students with food allergies in your child's class? If so, federal legislation has made it easier
to understand whether a packaged food is free from common food allergens.
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For the convenience of our students and parents, the lunch program now has
printed nutrition information available on most of the items on the lunch
menus.
Please just ask any cook for the lunch menu nutrition information. She
will hand you the binder to look through, which has the items in alphabetical
order. The nutrition information is similar to what is on packaged food: list
of ingredients and the Nutrition Facts.
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We try to serve the menu items that the students will enjoy as well as
provide good nutrition. If your family has a favorite recipe that may be used
by the school cafeterias, please feel free to send it to us by email (osman@wcusd15.org), mail (800 S.
Walnut, Williamsville, IL 62693);
or drop off at one of the school offices.
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