Child Nutrition Program
At ACCEL Academy and Preparatory, our aim is to provide all students with a healthy and nutritious meal while they are on campus. We train all of our employees to deliver top-notch customer service, ensuring that everyone is welcomed, valued, and appreciated. We are committed to going the extra mile to serve our customers with a smile.
We believe that our child nutrition services should be tailored to the educational and nutritional needs of students, and should be cooperatively planned and implemented. Our primary objective is to make available to every student in the school system an appetizing, well-prepared, and nutritionally adequate meal each day at an affordable price.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, Public Law 111-296 (Dec. 2010)
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Requires the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop nutrition standards for “competitive foods” - items sold in vending machines, snack bars, and a la carte lines in competition to the reimbursable school meal.
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Requires USDA to update the current meal pattern (nutrition standards) for school meals.
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Does NOT affect food brought from home or served in classroom parties.
USDA's Meal Pattern (Nutrition Standards) for School Meals establishes maximum calorie/sodium limits for school meals
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Requires schools to serve larger portions of fruits and vegetables. Students must take at least 1/2 cup serving of a fruit or vegetable per reimbursable meal. Schools must also offer a minimum number of servings of dark green vegetables, orange/red vegetables, and legumes per week.
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As of July 1st, 2014, all grains offered to students must be whole grain-rich.
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Requires milk to be 1% or nonfat.
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Maintains current limits on fat: no more than 1/3 of school lunch (1/4 of school breakfast) calories can come from fat and less than 10% from saturated fat.
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USDA's New "Smart Snacks Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in Schools" (July 2014) established nutrition standards for any food sold in schools, including fundraisers.
