Dear Parents:

With current national attention being focused on children’s health and wellness issues, Rincon Valley Union School District’s Food Service Department is excited to provide parents a convenient, easy and secure online prepayment service to deposit money into your child’s school meal account at any time. This service also provides parents the ability to view your child’s account balance through a web site called MyNutrikids.com. By having money in each child’s account prior to entering the cafeteria, we find the lunch lines move along much faster so your child has more time to eat and be with friends.

Also, parents will have the ability to print out a copy of their child’s eating history report. This history report will show you all dates and times that your child has purchased a breakfast and or lunch within the past thirty days.

To set up your account at Nutrikids, click here.

Food Service Procedures

School Meal Program
Please Read

Aug. 2007

Dear Parent or Guardian:
We are proud to offer your child nutritious hot meals daily at school. Our meals are analyzed using the Nutrikids computer analysis program that is required by our National School Lunch Program. State and Federal guidelines mandate that lunch provide one-third of a child’s daily nutritional requirements for Protein, Vitamin A., Vitamin C, Iron, and Calories. Calories from fat are below 30% and below 10% for saturated fats. Breakfasts provide one-third of the daily requirements. We offer fresh fruits and vegetables on the menu. Breakfast is served at Spring Creek, Village, Matanzas, Whited and Madrone schools during the half-hour before school and at Charter school during the morning break. If your school does not have a breakfast program, please call 546-5192 to ask about picking up breakfast at a school that serves breakfast.

Students can receive meals by pre-paying into their meal account and using the meal card provided to deduct money when getting a meal. Lunches are $2.75 or $3.00 at Charter school ($.40 if qualified for reduced price meals). Breakfasts are $1.25 or $.30 reduced price. Applications for the Free and Reduced Price Meal Program can be submitted at any time during the school year. Students eligible for free or reduced price meals last year must submit a new application to be eligible again this year. The deadline is Sept. 15th. Guests (parents, grandparents, sibling, etc.) are welcome to purchase lunch. Please order with your teacher or at the office before 9:00 a.m. Adult lunches are $3.50.

On the monthly menu, please count the number of meals your child would like to purchase. Multiply by your meal price to figure the monthly amount to prepay to your child’s account. Please order monthly if possible. Money will stay in student’s account until meals are taken. Call the Food Service Office at 546-5192 for account balances or have your child ask the cashier for the account balance.

Payments can be made by cash or check and should be brought to the breakfast cashier or to the office payment box with student’s full name on the envelope. Payments can be made on-line once school begins. See the MyNutrikids link on the District web page. This system will email you when account balance is low. There is a $1.75 fee per deposit.

When a child’s account is down to one lunch or less, the cashier will stamp their hand as a reminder (if acceptable) and a reminder note will be sent home. If payment is not received and a student asks for meals, only two lunches can be charged (-$5.50). After that, a snack will be given at no charge until payment is received.

We encourage you to take advantage of our nutritious meal program.

Sincerely,
Kate Wolf, Food Services Supervisor
546-5192