MRPS Nutrition Services
Children need healthy meals to learn. Montpelier Public Schools offers healthy, delicious, and locally inspired meals every day. Please click the below access the schools' menus for the month.
Please also scroll down this page for information about free and reduced meals, nutrition and Smart Snacks, and to add money to your child's MySchoolBucks account.
If you have other questions or need help, please contact Jim Birmingham, CEC - School Nutrition Director, at 802-225-8016 or JamesBirmingham@mpsvt.org.
HouseHold Income Form
Even though all meals are free to all Vermont students this year, the Agency of Education requests that you fill out a Household Income Form so that the district may get more money from the federal government for free school meals and other school programs now and in the future.
Paper Household Income Forms were mailed to all families in August, 2024. Please complete and return these to your school front office. Alternatively and preferred, please complete the digital version of the form as posted on the VT Agency of Education website here: Household Income Form.
School meals are FREE for all students!
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School meals are FREE for all students! 〰️
Every item available in our cafeterias can be included in a full meal with no charge for any student!
Our district meals are free based on the federal Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) and are paid for with federal funds. No application is necessary for any district student to receive free meals at school. Each student is entitled to one free breakfast and one free lunch each school day. All of the items available in the cafeteria may be included in a meal, there are no a la carte options in the cafeteria, in the name of equity. Extra items like a second meal, second entree or individual meal component, like milk, are not covered by CEP and must be paid for at the time of service. No student may charge extra items and invoke a negative account balance. Funds for extra cafeteria items may be added to student accounts with cash or a check made out to MRPS Food Service in the cafeteria or at myschoolbucks.com, though that website charges a fee for their service. Meal Charge Procedure for Montpelier Roxbury Public Schools
School Menus & Contacts
Summer 2024
Nutrition Information
We are focused on the health of our school environment. Our school district has established nutrition standards for all snacks sold in school by any entity, including parent/student organizations, teachers, boosters, fundraisers, or the food services department. These standards for snack sales are in effect from any time before school through 1/2 hour after school, in accordance with the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, the USDA and our district Wellness Policy. These standards carefully balance science-based nutrition guidelines with practical and flexible solutions to promote healthier eating on campus.
If you have other questions or need help, call 802-225-8016 or e-mail jamesbirmingham@mpsvt.org
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Healthy snacks that add nutrients, like vitamins and minerals, are essential. Smart Snacking helps kids get the calories (energy) they need to meet daily nutrition requirements.
Is Your Snack a Smart Snack? Use the Smart Snacks Product Calculator, developed by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, to take the guesswork out of nutrition guidelines! Simply enter the product information, answer a few questions, and determine whether your snack, side or entree item meets the new USDA Smart Snacks in School Guidelines.
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Any food sold in schools must:
Be a “whole grain-rich” grain product; or
Have as the first ingredient a fruit, a vegetable, a dairy product, or a protein food; or
Be a combination food that contains at least ¼ cup of fruit and/or vegetable; or
Contain 10% of the Daily Value (DV) of one of the nutrients of public health concern in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (calcium, potassium, vitamin D, or dietary fiber).*
Foods must also meet several nutrient requirements:
Calorie limits:
Snack items: ≤ 200 calories
Entrée items: ≤ 350 calories
Sodium limits:
Snack items: ≤ 230 mg**
Entrée items: ≤ 480 mg
Fat limits:
Total fat: ≤35% of calories
Saturated fat: < 10% of calories
Trans fat: zero grams
Sugar limit:
≤ 35% of weight from total sugars in foods
Accompaniments
Accompaniments such as cream cheese, salad dressing and butter must be included in the nutrient profile as part of the food item sold.
This helps control the amount of calories, fat, sugar and sodium added to foods by accompaniments, which can be significant.
*On July 1, 2016, foods may not qualify using the 10% DV criteria.
**On July 1, 2016, snack items must contain ≤ 200 mg sodium per item
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All schools may sell:
Plain water (with or without carbonation)
Unflavored low fat milk
Unflavored or flavored fat free milk and milk alternatives permitted by NSLP/SBP
100% fruit or vegetable juice and
100% fruit or vegetable juice diluted with water (with or without carbonation), and no added sweeteners.
Elementary schools may sell up to 8-ounce portions, while middle schools and high schools may sell up to 12-ounce portions of milk and juice. There is no portion size limit for plain water.
Beyond this, the standards allow additional “no calorie” and “lower calorie” beverage options for high school students.
No more than 20-ounce portions of calorie-free, flavored water (with or without carbonation); and other flavored and/or carbonated beverages that are labeled to contain < 5 calories per 8 fluid ounces or ≤ 10 calories per 20 fluid ounces.
No more than 12-ounce portions of beverages with ≤ 40 calories per 8 fluid ounces, or ≤ 60 calories per 12 fluid ounces.
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The sale of food items that meet nutrition requirements at fundraisers are not limited in any way under the standards.
The standards do not apply during non-school hours, on weekends and at off-campus fundraising events.
The standards provide a special exemption for infrequent fundraisers that do not meet the nutrition standards. Vermont does not offer any exemptions.
MySchoolBucks Account
Please review the Meal Charge Procedure for Montpelier Roxbury Public Schools. Payments to student accounts are made by sending a check to the school, online payments to student accounts through Myschoolbucks.com, and cash.
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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.
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mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; orfax:
(833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; oremail:
Program.Intake@usda.gov
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