School Wellness Plan
Guidelines for Elementary Schools

• We will offer our Healthy Habits lunch with no more than 35% of its calories from fat, and 10% of its calories from saturated and trans fat combined. There will be no more than 35% of its calories from added sugars on average. The Healthy Habits lunch will be within the USDA recommendations for caloric content.
• We will offer a variety of fruits and vegetables, and have at least two choices available for sale daily.
• We will offer only 1% white milk, 1% chocolate milk, 1% flavored milk and skim milk unless otherwise requested by the school.
• We will work toward a goal of 50% of the grains served being whole grains:
  • Whole wheat hamburger and hot dog buns with 6% whole grains will be used for all Healthy Habits lunches.
  • Kid’s white sandwich or whole grain breads will be used for all sandwiches.
  • Whole grain white buns will be used for specialty sandwiches.
• We will serve water and flavored waters without caloric sweeteners. We will serve fruit and vegetable based drinks with at least 50% real juice, as well as, 100% real juice.
  No beverages will have added caffeine.
• We will work toward offering snack items that contain less than 230 mg of
  sodium per serving.
• We will bake the majority of food items that are offered and avoid deep frying as much as possible. When deep frying we will use oil with no trans fat.
• We will provide our foodservice staff with an ongoing training program on nutrition.
• We will work with each school in making changes to and achieving their own “School Wellness Plan"

The above information was provided by Food Service Consultants, Inc.