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The School Food Project: BVSD's Food Services Department

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production kitchen turning locally sourced ingredients into healthy delicious school meals.

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 hard working employees serving the best possible food every day.

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scratch-cooked, fresh, nutritious and delicious meals served daily.

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local farmer partners growing food for BVSD meals. 

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nutrition education events hosted in schools each year.

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different lunch entrees served throughout the year, including vegetarian and gluten free options.

News

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We work throughout the school year to ensure that students have nutritious and tasty meals. It’s important to keep this going over the summer to give students the best chance to feel healthy, both physically and mentally. The School Food project covers the connection between mental health and nutrition, and shares community food resources. 

Read more... about Nutrition over summer break, tips for what to encourage and what to limit
HSMFA

Thanks to Colorado voters, school meals will be free for all BVSD students beginning in the 2023-24 school year. The passage of Proposition FF this past November, will provide free school meals through the Healthy School Meals for All Program. The BVSD School Food Project will continue to provide breakfast and lunch, complete with unlimited salad bar, every day at schools across the district.

Read more... about Free school meals starting next school year
hummus

For over ten years, BVSD’s Food Services Department has been working hard to support children’s health by providing fresh nutritious food in schools every day. This past summer, the Food Services team took that work a step further by working to address a little-known but potentially serious threat hiding in plain sight - sesame.  

Read more... about BVSD’s Food Services department took a deep dive to keep kids safe from a little known threat - sesame

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