Lunch program overview
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Holy Cross Regional School operates its hot lunch program in cooperation with Great Valley School District for the 2020-2021 school year.
Great Valley’s program offers us fresh lunches Monday through Thursday. Meals are delivered to school every day.
Due to Covid 19, there have been some changes to our Lunch Program. These changes are highlighted in red text.
1) Meals (entree and side items) will be individually wrapped in lunch bags and delivered to the classrooms with the student's choice of drink. When ordering lunch, parents will now have to select a drink selection for each day that you order. If no drink is selected, the student will receive white milk.
2) Please instruct your child that anything not eaten can be brought home (except open milk cartons) or tossed. Anything not eaten cannot be returned to the kitchen.
3) Great Valley is in the process of getting a machine that will enable them to vacuum seal meals. Once this process is available, we will be adding back spaghetti, tacos and other items.Fruits and vegetables now make up a larger portion of the each meal. We work hard to ensure that students have a variety of fruits and vegetables to choose from each week. This year we are offering a different vegetable sub-group every day. The vegetable sub-groups include, dark green, red/orange, starchy, beans and legumes, and others.
Students are now required to take 3/4 cup of fruit or vegetable with their meal.
Children will have the choice of selecting a hot meal or a cold alternate meal each day. Both of these selections will include all the sides listed with the hot meal entree, including milk, and the price is $5.00. Extra entrees are available for grades 6-8 only for $2.25, but you must order a lunch in order to get the extra entrée. When extra entrees are available, there will be a small box inside the menu box in the corner. You cannot order 2 lunches except for Friday's.
We need to pre-order meals a month ahead of time, and we cannot offer credits. If a child is absent and ordered lunch, that meal can go to a sibling. We would need a note requesting this first thing in the morning.
We will have an a-la-carte salad on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. This salad costs $2.50 and does not include any side items or a drink.
A-la-carte milk and apple juice will be available every day. Juice is 6 oz @ $.60. Milk is 8 oz @ $.75 and students have a choice of fat-free white milk, fat-free chocolate milk and 1% white milk daily.
Special Friday lunches - Pizza & Chick-Fil-A
We will continue our special lunch selections of either Pizza ($3.25) or Chick-Fil-A ($5.25).
On Pizza Day, we order from a local Pizza shop. Slices are $3.25 each and includes chips and a drink (ice tea, lemonade, fruit punch or milk). You may order more than one slice and a drink at an additional $3.25.
On Chick-Fill-A Day, we offer 8 piece nuggets or chicken sandwich. We also offer grilled nuggets which are gluten free. Price is $5.25 and includes chips and a drink (ice tea, lemonade, fruit punch or milk). You may order more than one meal at an additional $5.25. Since these meals are also pre-ordered, no credits can be taken, but if you write a note, we will be more than happy to give the absent child’s meal to a sibling.
No extra meals are available if your child forgets their lunch on Fridays. They will be offered a peanut butter and jelly, just jelly or just peanut butter sandwich.
Please make sure you check your personal calendar so you don’t order lunch on a day you know your child will be absent. We will try to ensure that all school activities will be listed on the calendar.This lunch program is not part of the National School Lunch Program; therefore we do not offer free meals. Reduced meals are available for $2.00. Children from lower-income families may be eligible for reduced-price meals. Families must submit a paper application for review as soon as possible. Discount pricing will not occur until the paperwork is approved.
Applications are available here. Please send your paper application in an envelope to school (attention: Karen Thomas) as soon as possible.Please make sure when you pack your children’s lunch from home that you include all the supplies they need to eat their lunch. that is, utensils, napkins, straws, and a drink. Water is available if your child forgets their drink. We cannot supply utensils and napkins for all the children who forget them.
Food allergies
If you child has any food allergy, please notify us in writing.
Peanut Allergies: To make sure that children with severe peanut allergies have a safe and happy lunch time, we can provide a special peanut free table for them. This table will be available if requested and will be marked with a sign, so your child knows where they can sit. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Forgotten lunches
Should your child forget their lunch, and you are not available to bring it to school, we will provide your child either with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and milk for $2.25 or a hot lunch for $5.00 (only if we have an extra). A bill (due the following day) will be sent home with your child that afternoon.
Past-due bills
When we bill you please pay the bill! We need to collect the money so we can pay our bills to Great Valley. If you have an outstanding bill, you cannot order for the next month until account is current.
Order problems
If your child feels he/she is not receiving an item she/he has ordered, please encourage them to speak with us and we will check the original order. Please inform your children each day what has been ordered.
Parent volunteers
Parent Volunteers need to come in with close toe shoes and your hair tied back (if you have long hair). This is Health Department regulation. Please arrive by 11:00 a.m.
We look forward to working with you this year. If you need to contact us, please call school at 610-489-9434 ext 2115. Ask for Karen Thomas or Sharon Drummy