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- AISD menus are subject to change due to nationwide supply chain issues and food service worker shortages.
For additional information contact AISD Dietitian Rachel Dunn at Rachel.Dunn@austinisd.org or at 512-414-0250.
Meals at AISD
Meals at AISD are prepared daily by Food Service staff in each school kitchen. The healthy meals we serve meet or exceed the federal breakfast and lunch nutrition guidelines that we are required to follow. We strive to offer a balance of healthy versions of student favorites mixed with scratch-prepared dishes and global flavors. AISD menus feature local, sustainably-sourced, and clean label foods.
All AISD menus are on a seasonal rotation - fall, winter, and spring, to offer more variety and highlight seasonal produce and dishes. Our breakfast menus follow a two-week cycle and lunch a four-week cycle. We build upon our menus to offer more options and variety as students advance through elementary, middle, and high school.
Breakfast:
At breakfast, all students have the choice of a featured entrée or cereal. Breakfast menus also include fruit, 100% fruit juice, and milk.
Breakfast Menu Highlights:
- Our breakfast menus include a variety of breakfast favorites prepared in our school kitchens, including tacos, kolaches, breakfast sandwiches, and fruit parfaits and smoothies topped with scratch-prepared granola.
- Breakfast favorites like French toast sticks, pancakes, muffins, waffles, and bagels are whole grain-rich and meet or exceed school meal nutrition standards.
- We offer fresh fruit, often Texas grown, multiple times per week.
- While federal nutrition guidelines do not require schools to serve a protein item at breakfast, we believe it plays an important role in helping students start their day. That's why we offer protein multiple times each week.
- Ahead of the federal guideline requirements, we are actively reducing added sugar on our breakfast menus.
Lunch:
Our lunch menus offer a healthy balance, featuring multiple entrée options daily. At minimum, one entrée option each day is vegetarian or vegan. To accompany the delicious entrée options, schools offer a variety of fruits, vegetables, and milk.
- Pre-K: Choice between two featured entrées (plus a set-plate of vegetable, fruit, and low-fat milk).
- Elementary: Choice between two featured entrées, a SunButter and jelly sandwich, and a salad.
- Middle School: Choice between three featured entrées and a salad.
- High School: Students can choose from a variety of options at our Bistro, Grill, and Fiesta serving lines. The Bistro line features two or three hot entrées, often inspired by global flavors, along with grab-and-go wraps, sandwiches, and salads. The Grill line offers healthier versions of student favorites like pizza, chicken tenders, and burgers. At the Fiesta line, students can build their own Tex-Mex bowls with a variety of fresh ingredients and toppings.
Lunch Menu Highlights:
- To introduce students to new flavors, our menus feature globally-inspired, scratch prepared dishes like Cuban Bowl, Fried Rice with Chicken or Edamame, Greek Hummus Plate, Korean Drumsticks, Lo Mein, and Gyros.
- Students can regularly enjoy Tex-Mex favorites like burritos, enchiladas, nachos, tacos, tamales, beans, and rice.
- Our daily salad selections include both a meat option and a vegetarian option, with themes that rotate weekly.
- Grain products offered are whole grain-rich.
- We proudly serve many foods grown or produced in Texas, including a variety of fruits and vegetables; bread, dinner rolls, hamburger buns, and hot dog buns from New World Bakery in Kyle; tortillas and chips from Fiesta Tortillas in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø; hand-rolled tamales from Padrino Foods in Irving; and pizza from Alpha Food Co. in Waller.
- Sustainability is one of our top priorities; we focus on making vegetables the center of the plate by planning plant-forward menus. We offer vegetarian options daily, and many are vegan. Our healthy, tasty side options include a mix of scratch prepared hot vegetables and fresh produce, often Texas grown.
We can accommodate food allergies and special dietary needs with a completed Request for Dietary Accommodation Form, learn more here. We also offer reasonable accommodations within federal guidelines for dietary preference, i.e. milk alternatives, and vegan accommodations. Caregivers may submit dietary preference requests in writing to the café manager at their child’s school, in advance, to allow time to review and order any alternative products.
We encourage all students to dine at school. As a federally funded program, we receive reimbursement for each meal served; the more meals we serve the more funding we have to invest in the quality of our food, maintain local jobs, and support the Texas economy.
À La Carte & Smart Snacks
Healthy à la carte snacks are available for purchase at all schools. The single serving snacks we offer are formulated for K-12 students following the guidelines set by the Department of Agriculture.
Students may purchase snacks using cash or funds on their account. Students may not charge any à la carte items.
Caregivers may set à la carte snack restrictions on their account or by contacting their café manager.
The sale of à la carte items helps support school meal programs by supplementing the minimal federal reimbursements we receive for student meals. These funds help us provide competitive wages and benefits for our employees and allow us to continue our commitment to purchasing local and higher quality foods for our menus.
Items and flavors may differ by campus. All items are subject to availability and price changes.