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Meal Prices & School Menus

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School Meal Prices For 2023-2024

  Breakfast & Lunch is FREE for all students.
LunchElementaryMiddleHigh School
Full PayFREEFREEFREE
ReducedFREEFREEFREE
Milk$0.60$0.60$0.60
Adult$4.70$4.70$4.70
As part of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) through a choice for schools called the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), the Putnam School District will provide breakfast and lunch to all students at no cost. Snack and ala carte items will be sold in addition to the meal.  All snack items sold meet the USDA Smart Snack Guidelines. Prices vary from $0.85 to $2.25.  A student cannot charge ala carte/snack items. 
[August 2021]
 
All Putnam Schools have a no cash procedure during meal service; therefore all money must be in each student’s account prior to the meal service.
 
Payment via Mail: Putnam Elementary School, Food Service Department, 33 Wicker Street, Putnam, CT 06260. 
One check per family is fine.  Be sure to write each child’s name on the memo portion of the check and the money allocated per child.
 
Payment via Dropbox: A drop box is located on the kitchen entrance wall for your convenience.  Check payments may be placed in a sealed envelope with student’s full name on it.  Please print clearly and legibly to ensure the money goes into the proper account. 
 
Payment via MySchoolBucks: This online payment service provides a quick and easy way to add money to your student’s meal account using a credit/debit card. You can view recent purchases, check balances, and set-up low balance alerts.

Raising the Bar for School Meals    

Picture of Plate of Food and a glass of milkIn an effort to continually improve the quality of the menus we offer our students we are raising the bar on the standards of our school meals. Our focus is on enhancing the diet of students with more nutritious choices here at school and by providing nutrition education that will help students form healthy habits that last a lifetime!

We encourage you to follow similar healthy guidelines at home.

Key enhancements include an increase in the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free and low-fat fluid milk in our meals. We are also reducing in the levels of sodium, saturated fat and eliminating added trans fat in meals. We do not supersize our meals, but instead strive to meet the nutrition needs of students within their age specific calorie requirements.