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Departments

Food Services

Promoting Nutrition Through School Meals

The District Food Services department employees are proud and caring professionals. We pride ourselves in working as a team to provide nutritious, appealing meals for the students and staff to promote health today and in the future. Every meal will meet the USDA requirements for nutrition, enabling all students to prepare for academic development. Click here for what's new with school meals.

Breakfast is available at most schools. A copy of breakfast and lunch menus are sent home with all elementary students. In addition all menus are available on this web site. Meal prices are published on each menu.

Scroll down to download a printable school meal application or click the following link to fill out an application from the comfort of your home online.

Menus and Resources

SCHOOL MENUS

Click a link below to view breakfast and lunch menus at your school:

BREAKFAST Breakfast is offered at Cedarwood, Paradise Elementary, Ponderosa, Pine Ridge, Paradise Intermediate, Paradise HS, Ridgeview HS and Honey Run Academy.	Breakfast menus are the same at all schools. Extra choices may vary at sites. August Breakfast Menu September Breakfast Menu
LUNCH
Elementary	August Lunch Menu	September Lunch Menu
Intermediate	August Lunch Menu	September Lunch Menu
Pine Ridge 6-7-8	August Lunch Menu	September Lunch Menu
Paradise High School	August Lunch Menu	September Lunch Menu
Ridgeview High School	August Lunch Menu	September Lunch Menu

RECIPE OF THE MONTH

Each month we will post a new healthy and delicious family friendly recipe.

April 2013 Recipe: Roasted Spring Asparagus

May 2013 Recipe: Build-Your-Own Turkey Burger

June 2013 Recipe: Summer Breeze Smoothie

July 2013 Recipe: Garden Fresh Tomato Sauce

August 2013 Recipe: Chicken Curry Casserole

September 2013 Recipe: Mouth-Watering Oven Fried Fish

HARVEST OF THE MONTH

Each month we will post information about one featured produce item that will be served in school lunch periodically throughout that month.

August 2013: Kiwifruit

September 2013: Apples

Free & Reduced-Price Meals

Your child may receive free meals if you now receive Food Stamp, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payments (Kin-GAP), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) benefits,

If your total household income meets eligibility requirements, your child may receive meals free or at a reduced price.

Foster Care Children or Children placed in out-of-home care; Foster children are now categorically eligible for free meals. They may be added to the family application as part of the household. However regardless of the household approval the foster child will remain free. Please see the Letter to Households below for more information.

Letter to Households

Paper 2013-2014 Application for Free and Reduced-Price Meals

Paper Application Help Here

Online 2013-2014 Application for Free and Reduced-Price Meals

Paper applications are accepted at the following locations and will be forwarded to the PUSD Food Service Office for processing:

Any PUSD school site

Any PUSD school cafeteria

The PUSD District Office (6696 Clark Rd, Paradise, CA 95969)

The PUSD Food Service Office (610C Pearson Rd, Paradise, CA 95969)

The ability to submit a Free and Reduced Priced Meal application online is now available! Click Here to get started!

If you choose to complete and submit an online application, it will be sent directly from your computer to the food services office where it can be processed.

Prepayment for Meals Through MySchoolBucks

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Contact

Breanna Cheung, MS, RD, Food Services Director
or Food Services Secretary
Tel: 530.872.6496
Fax: 530.872.5913