Nutrition Services
The VASD Child Nutrition Services Department strives to offer healthy and nutritious school meals emphasizing fruit, vegetables, and whole grains that meet USDA guidelines.
Meal Prices 2024-2025 (as of Sept 2024)
Breakfast | Lunch | |
Elementary Students | $0.00 | $2.80 |
Middle School Students | $1.50 | $2.90 |
High School Students | $1.50 | $3.10 |
Reduced price for qualified students | $0.00 | $0.40 |
Staff | $2.60 | $4.50 |
Director Information
To Contact Child Nutrition Services:
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234 Wildcat Way
Verona, WI 53593
608-845-4139
General Information
The Food Service Department knows and understands that children who eat well-balanced, nutritious meals do much better in school. We use the highest quality products to make meals. Each school day we provide healthy and affordable breakfast and lunch meals. Under the United States Department of Agriculture guidelines (USDA) breakfast provides over one-fourth of all of a child's daily nutritional requirements, and lunch provides over one-third.
Students are encouraged to make healthy choices. We provide numerous options each day throughout all of the grade levels, from fresh fruits and vegetables to low-fat milk. To help meet the very important nutritional needs of a growing student, we have planned the elementary, middle, and high school menus to accommodate diverse taste buds.
We also have the Offer vs. Serve Program. Offer vs. Serve allows students a choice for lunch. The student must take three of the five food choices that include milk, meat or meat alternative, fruit, vegetable, and bread. Students are required to take 1/2 cup of a fruit or vegetable, or a combination of the two, at each lunch meal.
All of the food prepared for the schools is made by food Service Staff that have been trained through the National Restaurant Association ServSafe Course. We value and believe in providing high-quality, safe, and tasty food to all students.
- More choices of whole-grain cereals, and less sugary cereals on the breakfast menu.
- Low fat and fat-free salad dressings are used in school lunches.
- Baked french fries are provided to the students with the addition of adding more baked sweet potato fries.
- Whole-grain bread is available to help students meet their daily fiber needs.
- 1% low-fat NO high fructose corn syrup in our chocolate milk.
- Proud to feature locally grown Wisconsin Apple Slices from Apple Orchards in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
School lunch is a convenient and economical option for busy families! In fact, it takes a real balancing act to beat school lunch's value with a bag lunch! If you haven't already done so, give it a try.
- School lunches offer a variety of foods from MyPyramid and meet very specific Guidelines for Protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Iron, and Calcium. Guidelines also limit the amount of fat and saturated fat allowed.
- Cost-wise they are a great value. A typical school lunch contains an entree, two servings of fruits and vegetables, a grain item, and milk.
- Research shows that students that eat school meals are more likely to consume milk, meats, vegetables, and grains as compared to students who bring lunch from home. They also have a higher intake of some "problem nutrients" including Calcium and Vitamin A.
USDA Nondiscrimination Statement
In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA's TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online
at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508- 0002-508-l l-28-l 7Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant's name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:
1. mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights 1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
2. fax:
(833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
3. email:
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.