School Nutrition

Ms.Paige Holland, Baldwin County Schools School Nutrition Director
110 North ABC Street
Milledgeville, GA. 31061 phone: 478.457.3315

"Eagle Ridge students won Thanksgiving puppets for participating in the cafeteria's Turkey Nugget Day meal."

As the cost of everything increases – there is one meal that is still a great value: both nutritionally and economically! School lunch is still an incredible bargain at $1.50 Elem. & 1.60 MS/HS at Baldwin County Schools.

Every School Lunch Includes Five Great Choices:

· Milk – Fat free or 1% - flavored or regular

· Vegetables – From coleslaw to fresh carrot sticks

· Fruit – Everything from kiwi to locally grown apples; often fresh

· Grains – More whole grain items like rolls or sandwich bread

· Meat or meat alternate –White meat chicken, bean chili, lean beef

Save Money: Eat School Lunch

· On average it costs less to buy a school lunch than to bring a lunch from home.

· The estimated national average of a school lunch from home was $3.43 last school year.[1]

School Lunch vs. Bagged Lunch

$2.08 $3.43

(comparison of national averages)

There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch (and a Reduced Price One Too)
·         All children at participating schools may purchase meals through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
·         Families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty level are eligible for free meals.
·         Families with incomes between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty level are eligible for reduced-price meals; these students can be charged no more than 40 cents.
·         Contact your school nutrition department to fill out a school meal application.
Healthy Meals Feed Eager Minds
·         Meals served under the NSLP must meet nutrition guidelines based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
·         No more than 30% of calories can come from fat and less than 10% from saturated fat.
School lunches provide one-third of the Recommended Dietary Allowances of protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, iron, calcium


·         and calories over the course of one week of menus.
·         Students who eat school lunches consume fewer calories from fat than students who bring lunch from home.
·         Compared to lunches from home, school lunches contain:
o        Three times as many dairy products
o        Twice as much fruit
o        Seven time the vegetable amounts
·         NSLP participants have substantially lower intakes of added sugars than do non-participants.

For more information contact your district’s school nutrition director at paige.holland@baldwin.k12.ga.us or 478-457-3315 or the School Nutrition Association: servicecenter@schoolnutrition.org (703) 739-3900

[1] According to a meal cost analysis by Alice Jo Rainville, PhD, RD, CHE, SNS of Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

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