AESD Child Nutrition

At , student voice and choice matters!

Middle Schoolers at AlhambraTraditional voted on two homemade recipes to help us decide which one to feature on next year’s menu: 1) Sopa de Fideo (Noodle Soup) or 2) Sopa de Albóndigas (Meatball Soup).

Team 1 and Team 2 from our Menu Development Team threw down and cooked up samples of each recipe. Then our team passed out samples and asked students to vote on which recipe would be crowned the “Recipe of the Year” by voting “yes” or “no” on both recipes.

The recipe that had 1,203 “yes” votes and a 94% student approval rating was... Sopa de Fideo (Noodle Soup)!

Huge shoutout to the Menu Development Team as a whole for working very hard to share homemade recipes that were from the heart.

And to all AESD students, be on the look out for HOMEMADE Sopa de Fideo on next year’s menu!

👏 HUGE shoutout to our bakery team for developing, testing, and baking delicious homemade Chocolate Co**has in celebration of National School Breakfast Week!

Our homemade Chocolate Co**has were a HIT today. And we couldn’t have done it without our six talented bakers. 💕

Thank you bakery team for all that you do and for baking incredible homemade foods!

🥣 Another comfort food turned into a school-approved homemade recipe!

This year, our Menu Development Team split into two separate teams to test out two different “Recipes of the Year,” and the theme that came out of both of these recipe ideas was... Comfort food.

Team 1 worked together to create the first draft of their “Recipe of the Year” - Sopa de Fideo (Noodle Soup)! This classic comfort recipe was adapted from a recipe that our team often makes at home, so it is made with EXTRA love.

Fideo is one of the two recipes we will be taste testing this week with Middle Schoolers at Alhambra Traditional School. The other recipe we will be taste testing alongside this recipe is Team 2’s Sopa de Albóndigas (Meatball Soup).

We hope students are as excited to test it as we are to serve it!