NEWS RELEASE FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

                                               FROM THE MT. LEBANON CAFETERIA

The Mt. Lebanon School District’s Food Service Department is committed to providing healthy and well-balanced meals to your children.  Along with teaching the children to make healthy lunch choices, we also understand that children should be able to have an occasional treat.  The Food Service Department will provide a healthy snack day on Tuesdays and low fat ice cream on Thursdays.

Parents have the option to limit their children’s ability to purchase snacks and ice cream.  If you do not want your child to purchase these items, please e-mail Dave Misterka, Food Service Supervisor at dmisterka@mtlsd.net

ALA CARTE / SNACK PROGRAM:

ALL ITEMS ARE $ .75 EACH

Ala carte items and snacks will be available this year.  Any student, even those who bring lunches from home, will be able to purchase side items such as fresh fruit, vegetables, side salads, juice, bottled water and milk.

Low fat snack bags will be sold on Tuesdays only and low fat Ice Cream will be sold every Thursday. All items except milk (.40) are $.75 each.  This is a cashless system.  Students must have money on their accounts to purchase ala carte items.  Cash is not accepted at the register.  If a student has a zero or negative balance, he/she will not be able to purchase ala carte items.

ICE CREAM SALES ON THURSDAY

The Food Service Department began piloting an ice cream day at Howe Elementary in September.  We will begin selling low fat ice cream every Thursday starting October 7 at Jefferson, Foster and Lincoln Elementary Schools.  Ice cream sales will begin at Markham, Hoover and Washington on October 14.

“EATING HEALTHY CAN ALSO INCLUDE AN OCCASIONAL SNACK”

Cool Daze® Low Fat Ice Cream

ICE CREAM SANDWICH 

Calories 130

Calories from Fat 25

INGREDIENTS: Ice Cream: Milk Fat and Nonfat Milk, Buttermilk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, Calcium Carbonate, Mono & Diglycerides, Vanilla Extract, Guar Gum, Calcium Sulfate, Carob Bean Gum, Polysorbate 65, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate, Artificial Flavor, Annatto for Color. Wafer: Bleached Wheat Flour, Sugar, Caramel Color, Dextrose, Palm Oil, Yellow Corn Flour, Contains 2% or Less of Cocoa, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Food Starch-Modified, Baking Soda, Salt, Mono & Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin.
Wafer: Bleached Wheat Flour, Sugar, Caramel Color, Dextrose, Palm Oil, Yellow Corn Flour, Contains 2% or Less of Cocoa, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Food Starch-Modified, Baking Soda, Salt, Mono & Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin.
ALLERGEN INFORMATION: Contains milk, soy and wheat.

PUDDING POP

Calories 90

Calories from Fat 20

INGREDIENTS: Water, Skim Milk, Sugar, Buttermilk, Corn Syrup, Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed and Soybean Oil, Pudding Base (Tapioca, Food Starch-Modified, Nonfat Dry Milk, Gelatin, Cellulose Gum, Carrageenan, Salt), Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Calcium Carbonate, Vanilla Extract.
ALLERGEN INFORMATION: Contains milk.

CHOCOLATE SUNDAE CRUNCH BAR

Calories 160

Calories from Fat 45

INGREDIENTS: LOW FAT ICE CREAM: Milk Fat and Nonfat Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Calcium Carbonate, Milk Protein Concentrate, Cellulose Gel, Cellulose Gum, Mono & Diglycerides, Vanilla Extract, Polysorbate 80, Carrageenan, Annatto (For Color), Vitamin A Palmitate. FLAVORED CENTER: Water, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Mono & Diglycerides, Guar Gum, Calcium Sulfate, Carob Bean Gum, Cellulose Gum, Carrageenan. CAKE CRUNCH: Bleached Wheat Flour, Sugar, Vegetable Shortening (Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and Cottonseed Oils), Caramel Color, Cocoa Powder Processed with Alkali, Corn Syrup, Salt, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Sodium Bicarbonate, Soy Lecithin. DIP COATING: Soybean Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil, Soy Lecithin, Artificial Flavor.
ALLERGEN INFORMATION: Contains milk, soy and wheat.

                                                            COMPARISON TO YOGURT

DANNON® All Natural Vanilla 6oz, 32oz Serving Size: 6oz; 170g
Calories	150
Calories from Fat	25

Lunch account balances are posted on Dashboard by logging into your Dashboard and selecting the "$" balance icon at the top of the page.  Students must pre-pay on lunch accounts and any outstanding negative balances must be paid off immediately.