DERBY USD 260 - Derby Public Schools

Food Service Activities – The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act continues to provide both
challenge and opportunity as we move into the school year. As you know, this
legislation dramatically changed the menu offerings for all participating districts.
Changes to the menu include:
o Increased serving sizes of fruit.
o Increased serving sizes of vegetables.
o 1/2 cup of beans per week.
o More dark green vegetables.
o More red/orange vegetables.
o Age appropriate calorie limits.
o Minimum and maximum servings of grains and proteins per week.
o Zero trans fat.
o Less sodium.
o All flavored milks will be fat free and only non-fat and 1% white milk.
These changes present a healthy opportunity for students as all lunch menus will offer
five components (fruit, vegetable, grain, protein and milk). Students must choose a
minimum of three of the five components, and one of those components must be at
least 1/2 cup of fruit and/or vegetable.
These changes also present challenges for our food service department in several
ways. For instance, fresh fruits and vegetables are more expensive and labor costs to
prepare the new menu are higher. Additionally, grain, meat and calorie ranges are
much more restrictive than previous requirements.
Energy Management - Our energy manager is an active member of our efforts on
strategy 2. The building audits conducted by our energy manage and the data he
collects from our energy invoices are critical to the successful completion of our
strategy 2 action steps. We will rely on him to use the Energy Cap software program to
document, display and analyze the data so as to follow our progress and guide our
actions as they relate to energy conservation.
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