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Busy week for the School Nutrition staff.
QRSD School Nutrition Staff started the week with a whimsical grinch tree craft. What a fun night!
And Santa ended the week with a visit to the naughty team at the Quabbin🎅🤶

Food Fuels Hungry Minds - Let's Eat!
Happy Holiday.

Food Fuels Hungry Minds - Let's Eat!

FAQ

When will the School Nutrition parent guide be available?
We will email the guide by August 28, 2023. The guide will include your child's student ID number, lunch pin number and other School Nutrition Information. The email is from [email protected] and not a qrsd.org email address. Please check your spam folder.

Menus
Breakfast and Lunch Menus will be available online on August 28, 2023. We are still experiencing food and supply chain shortages. Menus are subject to change without notice.

Meal Benefit Applications for School Year 2023-2024
The Meal benefit applications for this school year will be available soon. You only need to apply once per household, unless you received a directly certificated letter via email. The directly certified letters will be emailed by August 28, 2023.

Will free meals or universal free meals continue in Massachusetts?
We are waiting for Governor Healey to approve the state budget.

Summer P-EBT FAQ?
Although the state made meals available at no cost for last school year (2022-2023), students would still need to qualify for the free benefits to receive Summer P-EBT. You could have qualified during the 2022-2023 school year by income using the meal benefit application, from being directly certified via the state gateway program (example: qualifying for SNAP) or if enrolled at a CEP school. Hardwick Elementary School was the only CEP school in QRSD for school year 2022-2023.

It was and is extremely important to complete a meal benefit application every school year unless you receive a directly certified letter via email.

Summer P-EBT
Quabbin Regional School District recently submitted the required information to the state. You should receive payment when the state issues the next round of payments. This will be issued in September.

I am excited to speak at the Healthy Kids, Healthy Programs Submit hosted by John Stalker Institute tomorrow.

Join me as we redefine school meals and turn the ordinary cafeteria experience into an ordinary one, paving the way for healthier and happy kids!

I'm also looking forward to meeting you all and exploring ways to shape a healthier future for our kids together.

Tomorrow is school lunch hero day!! I want to give a huge shout out to the QRSD School Nutrition staff! Between adhering to strict nutrition standards, navigating supply chain shortages, staffing shortages and more, they have a lot on their plate. Every day they do the most important thing… feeding the kids! I am thankful every day that I have one of the most outstanding teams!

Thank you QRSD School Nutrition Staff!

Food Fuels Hungry Minds - Let’s Eat!! 🦹‍♀️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️