Food Services

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The Salmon River Central School District proudly serves healthy, delicious meals to students every day.

Meal Menus

November Breakfast Menu

November Lunch Menu

DECEMBER BREAKFAST MENU

dECEMBER lUNCH mENU

All menus are in PDF format. If you are in need of assistance when accessing the menus, please email Public Information Specialist Zach Ribert.

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Breakfast & Lunch is Free for All Salmon River CSD Students

All enrolled students at Salmon River Central School District are eligible to receive a healthy breakfast and lunch at school for free during the 2024-25 school year.

This change was made possible by the Community Eligibility Provision through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The provision is a non-pricing meal service option for school districts that are located in low-income areas to help improve food security. The USDA will reimburse Salmon River for the cost of these meals. À la carte items and extra meals are available for students, but they will need to be purchased separately.

To ensure the district’s ability to continue this program in the future, all Salmon River families are asked to complete and submit a Household Income Application (via LINQ Connect). That form will also help determine whether your child(ren) may be eligible for other programs. If you have any questions, please contact the Food Service Manager.

Household Income Application (via LINQ Connect)

Meal Prices & Payments

2024-25 Student Meal Prices

Breakfast – FREE
MS & HS Lunch – FREE
Elementary Lunch – FREE

Payments

The district utilizes LINQ Connect to make easy and secure payments.

Sign into LINQ Connect

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Meal Charging and Prohibition Against Meal Shaming

It is the District’s goal to provide students with access to nutritious no- or low-cost meals each school day and to ensure that a student whose parent/guardian has unpaid meal charges is not shamed or treated differently than a student whose parent/guardian does not have unpaid meal charges. Unpaid meal charges place a large financial burden on the District. The purpose of this policy is to ensure compliance with federal requirements for the USDA Child Nutrition Program and to provide oversight and accountability for the collection of outstanding student meal balances to ensure that the student is not stigmatized, distressed, or embarrassed.

View Policy 5660: Meal Charging & Prohibition Against Meal Shaming.

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Benefits of Breakfast

Eating breakfast as a child is important for establishing healthy habits for later in life. Schools that provide breakfast in the classroom to all students have shown decreases in tardiness and suspensions as well as improved student behavior and attentiveness. What you eat for breakfast can have an impact on learning. One study showed that eating breakfast food high in fiber and low in sugar for breakfast helped students sustain the cognitive effects of breakfast. School Breakfast provides ¼ the recommended amounts of protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin C for the day.

Eating breakfast can help improve math, reading, and standardized test scores. Children who eat breakfast often behave better in school and get along with their peers more than those who do not. Breakfast helps children pay attention, perform problem-solving tasks, and improves memory. Children who eat school breakfast are likely to have fewer absences and incidents of tardiness than those who do not. By eating breakfast, students get more of important nutrients, vitamins and minerals such as calcium, dietary fiber, folate and protein. Studies have shown that children who eat breakfast on a regular basis are less likely to be overweight.

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District Services Links

Nicole Foster
School Food Service Manager

Beth Myott
School Lunch Clerk
Phone: (518) 358-6682

Peanut Butter Protocol

Our students’ safety is of the utmost concern to us, and we believe our new protocol strikes a fair balance between protecting our students with allergies, while still allowing parents to choose peanut butter as a cost effective and nutritional option for their child.

Peanuts and peanut products will no longer be served on the menu in any cafeteria in the District. Rather, we carefully selected a nut-free alternative product for the free peanut butter sandwich menu item. We will serve a 51% whole grain oatmeal bar, which comes in two sizes. The smaller size will be offered to UPK through grade 5 students, while the larger size will be offered to students in grades 6 through 12. The bars come pre-wrapped, and are peanut and tree nut-free. There will be various flavor options available, and students will be allowed to save the bars for later, if they wish. The prepackaged protein bars allow for students to do this more easily.

Although we will not serve any peanut products on our menus, we will allow students who bring their lunch to consume peanut products. However, we will ensure that all students with severe allergies are able to eat in a designated nut-free zone in the cafeteria.

This protocol was developed as the result of feedback and collaboration between parents, teachers, and our nurses and food services staff.

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