School Cafeterias Celebrate National School Lunch Week

The Fayette County Public School System will celebrate National School Lunch Week from October 14-18. 

National School Lunch Week, founded in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy, recognizes the National School Lunch Program, which serves healthy lunches to over 30 million children each day.
 
This year’s theme, “School Lunch: What’s on Your Playlist?” highlights the wide variety of flavors, dishes, delivery options and tastes that can be customized in today’s school lunch.
In keeping with the theme, School Nutrition Director Kokeeta Wilder says, “For this week we are featuring our students most favorite entrees.”
 
To kick off the week, the school nutrition program will offer students menu items including the Buffalo "Beats" Chicken Chunks, "Chill-Out" Cheeseburger, Spicy "Soprano" Chicken Sandwich and "Rockin" Big Daddy's Pizza.
 
Continuing the celebration, students will have the opportunity to win various movie tickets.
 
The federally-funded National School Lunch Program provides nutritionally balanced, healthy meals to students every day. The program requires all schools to meet strict nutrition standards that limit calories, sodium, and unhealthy fats. School lunches must offer servings of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, and 1% or fat-free milk. Well-balanced, healthy lunches give students the nutrition and energy they need to remain actively engaged in classroom learning.