Food Menu for the month of September: Click here to view.

Meals and Snacks

Parents provide all meals and formula. La Escuelita provides milk at no additional cost when formula is no longer required. We also provide a morning and afternoon snack when infants are 15 months of age and older.

The following nutritious meals and snacks are provided by La Escuelita at no additional cost:

• Breakfast (7:30 AM)
• Mid-Morning Snack (10:30 AM)
• Afternoon Snack (3:00 PM)

La Escuelita offers an optional catered hot lunch program at a cost of $65 per month. Our hot lunch program provides the following benefits:

•  High quality hot lunches cooked from scratch
•  Lunches meet USDA pattern requirements
•  Milk is included with all lunches
•  Lunches are presented in a kid friendly manner, so that children enjoy eating them and become accustomed to trying new healthy nutritious foods
•  Canned fruits are packed in unsweetened pear juice instead of light syrup, and applesauce is unsweetened
•  Fried foods are excluded from our menu

Parents who do not wish to participate in the hot lunch program provide their children with a box lunch from home. The box lunch should include: Milk or juice, a sandwich or substitute, and a fruit or vegetable. Candy, gum and soda pop are not appropriate and will not be served to students.

Food Allergies

1. Names of children and their specific food allergies will be posted in the food service area of each classroom and in the kitchen.
   
2. Parents are responsible in notifying us of any food allergies their child may have. We need a note from the child’s physician stating which foods they are allergic to and indicate a substitute item of equal nutritional value in order to meet the need.  This is required of us according to the USDA guidelines.  Please ask us for the Food Allergy Health Care Provider form to take to the doctor for this purpose.
   
3. Parents are also responsible for providing substitutions, for example, if a child is allergic to milk products, the parent would need to bring a non-dairy beverage to substitute when milk is served and when the menu lists an entree which contains milk products. The parents will be responsible to pack a substitute item.