Afterschool Snack Guide

Worcester County Public Schools,
Maryland
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ReCharge! Healthy After-school Snack Guide — Snack Programs in Action
District Demographics:
• 6,900 students
• 33 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price school meals
• Rural district
After-school Snack Program:
• Approximately 360 children receive a snack each day.
• Fourteen after-school programs participate — five of the programs take place at local churches
and nine are in elementary, middle or high schools.
• Twelve of the programs are located in a low-income area; two are not.
Snack Menus:
• None of the snacks contain more than 9 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat and 15 grams
of sugar.
• Favorites include cereal and milk, animal crackers and juice, and lowfat honey buns and milk.
The district uses commodities for some of the snacks to decrease costs.
• The school nutrition department gets feedback on the snacks from the program administrators
and makes menu substitutions when children do not like an item.
Process for Serving the Snack:
• The after-school staff for the church programs and the smaller school programs pick up
the snack from the cafeteria. Staff members are responsible for serving the snack and taking
the meal counts. The cafeteria manager trains the after-school program staff on how to
serve the snacks and fill out the paperwork.
• In the larger school programs, the cafeteria staff serves the snacks in the cafeteria and is
responsible for the paperwork.
• The school district staff does not serve any hot food after school, but maintains the milk,
juice and fruit at the proper temperature by removing them from storage just prior to serving
them or by placing them in coolers. The rest of the items are non-perishable.
• In the schools, the janitorial staff is responsible for cleaning up the area where the children eat.
• Food Services Coordinator Scott Blackburn does all of the monitoring himself. He visits
each site twice a year.