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School Nutrition: Connecting the Cafeteria, the Classroom and the Community for the Health of our Students

School Nutrition: Connecting the Cafeteria, the Classroom and the Community for the Health of our Students. MPS School Nutrition Services. Mission: established in 1982 when MPS won the silver plate award

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School Nutrition: Connecting the Cafeteria, the Classroom and the Community for the Health of our Students

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  1. School Nutrition: Connecting the Cafeteria, the Classroom and the Community for the Health of our Students

  2. MPS School Nutrition Services • Mission: established in 1982 when MPS won the silver plate award • Serve the greatest number of children the best quality meal possible in the most cost efficient manner possible

  3. School Nutrition Services Goals • Increase lunch participation • Increase breakfast participation • Increase the number of CLC sites that offer dinner • Balance the budget • Increase locally sourced foods by 25%

  4. MPS SCHOOL NUTRITION SERVICES • 55,000 Lunches per day • 31,000 Breakfasts per day • 3,600 snacks per day at 43 sites • 4,500 dinners per day at 40 sites • 7,000 meals per day sold to charter and non MPS schools • 10,000 lunches and 4,500 breakfast per day in the summer

  5. URBAN FOODS FOR URBAN SCHOOLS (UFUS) • Milwaukee Food Policy Council subcommittee • Strategic planning completed recently • Meeting of the community minds around sustainability and food shed issues • Building relationships to connect the community the cafeteria and the classroom

  6. Cafeteria menu changes in the past 5 years • No raw meats come into kitchens • Breads and Buns have 51-85% whole grain • Fresh fruit or vegetable offered at least four times per week • Change in chocolate milk formula – no HFCS • No strawberry flavored milk • No msg, zero trans fat

  7. Healthy Vending – new frontier

  8. large operation = large carbon footprint • Food waste in preparation • Food waste in what is not eaten • Packaging waste • Cost of cleanup

  9. large operation = large carbon footprint • No styrofoam • Paper trays vs paper boats • Preportioned option to recycle serving units • Pilot to transport food wate to local digester

  10. USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program • Offered in 22 schools this year • Snacks in classroom 2-3 times per week • Based on classroom acceptability, began offering options at lunch • Have donors who are supporting FFVP for schools who might not be eligible • Connection to Gardening

  11. New fruit and vegetable offerings: • Kiwi • Pears – Bartlett and D’Anjou • Green and Red pepper strips • Romaine lettuce salad mix • Snap Peas • Plums • Sunflower sprouts • Sweet potatoes • Roasted red potatoes

  12. Cafeteria Classroom Connection • Video for sunflower sprouts from Growing Power • Field trips to Growing Power and Sweetwater • School Hoop Houses

  13. Cafeteria – Classroom - Community Connection

  14. Cafeteria to Classroom to Community • School builds hoop house and grows tomatoes • Students observe process • Students harvest • Cafeteria features harvest and serves product so students taste • Students tell family and influences family purchase • Community volunteers come to school and help with hoop house maintenance • Repeat with other vegetables….

  15. Sweet Potato Story – next video

  16. Classroom - Cafeteria Challenges… • Time to eat • Space to serve meals and for students to eat • School staff knowledge and ability to fit the message into the educational day • Student experiences with food

  17. Cafeteria to Classroom to Community • A work in progress • A process that is site dependant • Takes time • Must build on relationships

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