Pierz school cafeterias are meeting challenging new federal nutrition standards for school meals, ensuring that meals are healthy and well-balanced and provide students all the nutrition they need to succeed at school. Now is a great time to encourage your kids to choose school lunch!
School meals offer students milk, fruits and vegetables, proteins and grains, and they must meet strict limits on saturated fat, trans fat and portion size. Our school lunches feature:
• Age-appropriate calorie limits.
• Larger servings of vegetables and fruits (students must take at least one serving of produce).
• A wider variety of vegetables, including dark green and red/orange vegetables and legumes.
• 2% milk low fat free chocolate milk.
• More whole grains.
• And less sodium.
Students will see a limit on the bread/grain items now served, stricter control on meat/meat alternate (protein) serving sizes, and generous fruit and/or vegetable servings.
Let's work together to be sure that children adopt the kind of healthful eating habits and lifestyles that will enable them to live longer, more productive lives.
If your child(ren) qualifies for the Free & Reduced Lunch Program, they are required to take the reimbursable meal being offered in the lunch line or they will be charged for each component/item on their tray.  Please encourage your child(ren) to take every component being offered in the lunch line. 

*What is a reimbursable meal under the National School Lunch Program?  The USDA Food & Nutrition states that each child must have 3 of the 5 components  on their tray to make it a reimbursable meal.   Of the 3 required components, 1 of the components must be a fruit and/or vegetable.  (ex. 5 food components consist of:  Fruit, Vegetable, Grains, Meat/Meat Alternate, Milk)

In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:

1. mail:
   U.S. Department of Agriculture
   Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
   1400 Independence Avenue, SW
   Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
2. fax:
   (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
3. email:
   Program.Intake@usda.gov

 

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Revised July 2022.