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The School Nutrition Program of Dalton Public Schools is the recipient of numerous regional and national awards and recognitions. Our menu planning is based on USDA's Choose My Plate initiative. Using USDA's food guidance system as the foundation for our planning allows us to provide meals that meet the nutritional needs of students at all age, gender, and activity levels. Each lunch offers options that meet one-third of the student's nutritional needs for the day; each breakfast contains choices to meet one-fourth of those needs. Every meal consists of a selection of high-quality protein foods, heart-healthy grains, a variety of fresh fruits and/or vegetables, and a choice of non-fat or low-fat milk. At breakfast, students may select a protein, a grain, a fruit, and milk. For lunch students may choose a protein food, a grain, three vegetables, a fruit, and milk. Vegetable choices are planned over the course of a week so that students may select the proper proportion of dark green, orange, and starchy vegetables as well as legumes. As recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, all meals are planned to limit calories from fat to no more than 30% and calories from saturated fat to no more than 10%. Because of the prevalence of childhood allergies, the Dalton Public Schools Nutrition Program does not offer peanuts or peanut butter.
The staff of Dalton Public Schools Nutrition Program, at both the system level and the school level, works to offer high-quality meals to our students. We feel that it is our responsibility to provide our students with the capacity to make healthy food choices each and every day.