Kenesaw Provides Offer vs. Serve Food Choices
by Rebecca Rockefeller
January 10, 2010
A healthy meal needs certain food components--meat/meat alternate, grain/bread, fruits and/or vegetables and milk. Students do not have to take all of these food components. They may choose as few as three components or all five. This is Offer vs. Serve. For example, a lunch menu that offersall food components is: Hamburger on a Bun/French Fries/Tossed Salad/Milk. A student could take all menu items or any qualifying combination such as:
1)Hamburger/Bun/Milk/Salad, or 2)Hamburger/Bun/Salad, or 3)Hamburger/Bun/ French Fries, or 4) French Fries/Tossed Salad/Milk/Bun.
Choosing three, four or five food components has no effect on the price one pays for the lunch. The entire meal is the best value for one's money. Remember the choice is up to the student! Declining foods a student will not eat instead of throwing them in the trash is a responsible way to help the school save food, time and money.
This year we are still offering peanut butter and jelly or peanut butter for all grades, and now we also offer a chef salad for grades 7-12 as an alternative for the main course.
New to the lunch program is our Juice Alive machine. Juice Alive is a fruit slush that we have been offering at lunch time. It is a fruit serving with no sugar or fat added, and it is a good source of vitamins and calcium. We have many flavors that we have served and many more flavors yet to serve. If a student brings a lunch from home, he/she can purchase a serving for 50 cents.
