Breakfast
These meal components must be offered for breakfast.
What are grain/protein, fruit, and milk?
Fruits and vegetables are served this often for lunch.
What meals must offer milk?
What is Breakfast, Lunch, and Supper?
These are the five meal components that make up a reimbursable lunch.
What are Grain, Protein, Vegetables, Fruit, and Milk?
These staff must be trained on reimbursable meals.
What is all staff who take part in serving and taking accountability for school nutrition programs?
All of DFNS breakfast entrees count as this many items.
What is TWO.
This is the minimum quantity of fruit or juice a student must take for a reimbursable breakfast.
What is half a cup of fruit or juice?
This many varieties of milk must be offered for grades K-12.
What is two?
We MUST offer two varieties of milk. In practice, we offer two varieties plus a soy milk option.
Students must have this number of components for a reimbursable meal.
What is THREE components?
This is why we must serve reimbursable meals.
What is to provide students with proper nutrition, and to ensure financial stability for our programs?
This is the minimum number of items a student must take for a reimbursable meal.
What is THREE items?
Remember - ALL DFNS breakfast entrees count as TWO items.
This is the minimum quantity of fruits or vegetables a student must take for a reimbursable lunch.
What is half a cup of fruit or vegetable?
These grades cannot receive flavored milk.
What is Pre-K, Head Start, and any programs younger than Kindergarten?
Students must have which components, in what quantity, to be considered a reimbursable meal.
What is at least 1/2 cup of fruit or vegetable?
What are the DFNS Training Binder and Schoolshare?
We encourage students to take this many items in order to enjoy a complete breakfast that will keep them full until lunch.
What is FIVE items?
This include an entree (2 items), a fruit, juice, and milk.
High school students can take this many 1/2 cup portions of fruits and vegetables in a reimbursable meal.
What is FOUR 1/2 cup portions.
High school students are encouraged to take up to TWO 1/2 cups of fruit and TWO 1/2 cups of vegetables as part of a reimbursable meal.
This totals 2 cups of fruits and vegetables with every lunch!
This milk alternate must be available at all meal services.
What is Soy Milk?
Unflavored Soy Milk for HeadStart, Pre-K, and younger than Kindergarten.
Vanilla Soy Milk for grades K-12.
Soy Milk does not require a Dietary Accomodation Form.
We encourage students to take this many components in order to enjoy a complete lunch that will prepare them for learning.
What is all FIVE components in the maximum quantities available?
This type of milk provides an alternate for students who cannot consume cows milk.
What is SOY milk?
DFNS makes unflavored soy milk available to our youngest learners and vanilla soy milk to grades K-12.
Soy milk does not have to be sent to every classroom (where meals are consumed in the classroom), and may be provided upon request.
A Special Dietary Needs form is not required to receive soy milk.
This MUST be taken to be considered a reimbursable meal.
What is half a cup of fruit or juice?
What are Dark Green, Red/Orange, Beans(Legumes), Starchy, and Other?
Beverages that can be substituted for milk.
What are NONE!
Milk is it's OWN meal compoent. We offer a variety of milk (skim, 1%, chocolate, and soy).
Juice, water, nor any other beverage is a substitute for milk.
This is a way to account for a non-reimbursable meal, or additional items.
What is charge items as A La Carte?
This is what you can do to ensure students have a reimbursable meal.
What is make sure food is fresh and appealing, post the DFNS "Build Your Tray" poster on all serving lines, encourage students to take all components as they are coming through the serving line, keep a bowl of fruit at the point of service for students who may have forgotten, and keep providing friendly reminders to students?