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School Food Service offers a balanced and nutritious breakfast and lunch each day.
The menus for breakfast and lunch are created by registered dietitians, who are trained nutrition experts. Click on any of the links to the right to view your child's menus.
School breakfast is designed to meet 1/4 of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) and school lunch 1/3 of the RDA. When we create the menu, we analyze each meal for enough calories, protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin C. We also work hard to keep the total fat at or below 30% of the total calories and the saturated fat below 10%.
Breakfast and lunch are presented in an "Offer vs. Serve" style of service. This means that instead of just "serving" students one entree each day, we "offer" each student choices. The meal choices are broken down into "components". These components consist of milk, fruits/vegetables, breads/grains, and meats/meat alternatives.
For Palm Beach County's school menu nutrition information, visit 
Due to unforeseen circumstances that may affect our fresh produce vendors, menu items may be temporarily modified to utilize fresh produce while maintaining the nutritional integrity of the item. |
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Menus are created on a seasonal basis. During the construction period, a Menu Committee is called together to discuss new ideas for the menu. The committee consists of registered dietitians, several School Food Service administrators, Field Coordinators, Food Service Managers, and parents. If you as a parent or guardian would be interested in participating on the Menu Committee, please e-mail Jamie McCarthy, Specialist for the Nutrition and Wellness Promotion Team, at jamie.mccarthy@palmbeachschools.org.
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If you are a Palm Beach County student, here is your chance to make suggestions for your breakfast and lunch menu! Keep in mind the not only do your menu ideas need to be healthy, but they also need to be food selections that you think your fellow students will also enjoy.
Please e-mail your suggestions to Jamie McCarthy at jamie.mccarthy@palmbeachschools.org, making sure that you list the name of the school you currently attend. (Submitting your name is optional)