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Food Services News Fast Facts 60 percent of our students qualify for free or reduced-priced meals. Each day, the San Diego Unified School District prepares and serves: 48,000 breakfasts 75,000 lunches 12,200 snacks

Food Services

Click Here to apply for Free & Reduced-Priced Meals.

Meals are also vended to childcare centers, private schools, charter schools and other organizations located in San Diego.  For more details on our breakfast, lunch and snack programs, click here: descriptions of meal programs.

 

Meals are served to students through the federally funded USDA National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.  Food is also served at some schools and city parks during the summer through the Summer Food Service Program, in partnership with the City of San Diego Park and Recreation Department.

Staff pursues the program’s mission of providing healthy meals and snacks amid continual increases in operating costs such as labor, fuel, food, equipment replacement and other capital needs and meet or exceed nutritional mandates.  The Department has dealt with these challenges by increasing meal participation and introducing innovative programs such as Breakfast in the Classroom and the Summer Fun Café summer meal program.

Program Goals

• To provide healthy meals daily to students, preparing them to learn and guiding them in the process to develop positive life-long eating habits.

• To meet USDA and State nutritional guidelines.

• Continue to expand program access to student meals.

• To remain a financially self-sufficient department.

• To continue to look for partnerships and coalitions among public and private sectors to enhance programs and quality of food.

Meal Programs

San Diego Unified has some of the most innovative and progressive Food Service programs in the nation.  Its "café concepts" bring restaurant-style marketing to the schools, creating a more attractive, convenient and fun atmosphere for students.  This is consistent with the Department's primary goal of good nutrition for its students.

	Breakfast in the Classroom With Breakfast in the Classroom, students in selected San Diego Unified Schools get breakfast with their first lessons of the day, every day.  Read more.
	Kid's Choice Café Kid’s Choice Café is an elementary school healthy-choice breakfast and lunch program that encourages students to choose foods wisely and establish lifelong positive eating habits.  Read more.
	SanDi Coast Café SanDi Coast Café is a new concept in service and menu choices introduced for the 2009-10 school year.  It offers a wide variety of choices to encourage students to have a healthy breakfast and lunch.  Read more.
	Summer Fun Café San Diego Unified School District partners with the City of San Diego Park and Recreation Department to bring the US Department of Agriculture's "Seamless Summer Feeding Option" to local children during the summer months.  Read more.
	Farm to School Farm to School connectsstudents to San Diego farmers by sourcing and serving locally grown a nd when possible organic foods at lunch and/or snack time.  Local foods are served district wide at all grade levels and grown within 150 miles of SDUSD by small family farmers.  Read More.

We comply with local, state, and federal health and safety regulations.  To review the most recent health inspection reports, contact SDUSD Food Services Department at (858) 627-7301.

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