Parent Information - Trumbull Public School District

SNAP

If your children qualify for free school meals or milk, you might also qualify for SNAP (formerly called Food Stamps). SNAP helps people buy food for themselves and their families. SNAP benefits are issued each month on plastic debit cards. You can use SNAP benefits to buy food at major supermarkets, neighborhood grocery stores, online at participating retailers, and some farmers’ markets authorized to accept SNAP. Read more - download the application...

Early Dismissal Days

Debit Policy

The Trumbull Schools use a computerized Point-of-Sale Program where all students have an account ready to be used for the purchase of lunches and snacks. All students are issued Bar Coded Personal Identification Number (PIN) that each child memorizes and enters at the serving line. With less cash to handle, the serving lines move much faster with the computerized point-of-sale allowing students more time to eat. Any amount of money is deposited into the account. At mealtime, the student will punch in their (PIN) and the computer accesses his/her account. If there is money in the account, the purchases are deducted.

Elementary Schools ONLY, if you wish your total amount to be for lunches only, you must note “for lunch only" on your deposit slip. If you wish purchases to be for both lunch and ala carte, you must note, lunch/a la carte on your deposit slip.

You may, as in the past, send in cash for lunch and ALA carte purchases. If a student is eligible for free meals, the computer acts as if the student has meal credits in the account. If the student is reduced lunch, your prepayment will be deducted from the account. If there is no money in the account, you pay reduced price with cash. If there is no money in the account and the student is full priced, the computer will ask for the price of the purchases (you pay with cash).You may make a deposit (prepayment) at any time. Please use the deposit slip and write all information on the slip. Deposit slips are available on the menu and in your school cafeteria or from downloading below:

Deposit Slip | Middle & High School Deposit Slip

You may also us MySchoolBucks to deposit money into your child's lunch account.

Note: A returned check for insufficient funds plus the bank fee will be deducted from your child’s account.

Nutrition

The Build-a-Tray™ program is an interactive game that Children participate in, while they walk through the lunch line and fill their lunch trays. The shapes and colors represent the 5 food groups. Match and fill your 5 tray sections, with at least 3 of the 5 food components, required on your school lunch line.
This program is in tandem with Offer Verses Serve, using Traditional Food Based Menu Planning and with the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

As part of the National School Lunch Program and
Section 10-221q of the Connecticut General Statutes,

Beverages Allowed in Connecticut Public Schools is as follows.

Only five categories of beverages can be sold to students in public schools at all times
and from all sources.

The categories are:

1. Milk (flavored or plain) with no more than 4 grams of sugars per ounce and no artificial sweeteners.
2. Nondairy milks, such as soy or rice milk, which may be flavored but contain no artificial sweeteners, no more than 4 grams of sugar per ounce, no more than 35 percent of calories from fat per portion and no more than 10 percent of calories from saturated fat per portion.
3. 100 percent fruit juice, vegetable juice or combination of such juices, containing no added sugars, sweeteners or artificial sweeteners.
4. Beverages that contain only water and fruit or vegetable juice and have no added sugars, sweeteners or artificial sweeteners.
5. Water, which may be flavored but contains no added sugars, sweeteners, artificial sweeteners or caffeine.

Portion size of allowable beverages is limited to no more than 12 fluid ounces, with the exception of water.