Montague Area Public Schools Food Service Department
Welcome back to a new school year!
The Montague Food Service Staff is looking forward to serving your children nutritious, great-tasting meals that support their achievements in school and promote healthy lifestyles. We strive to provide outstanding service and good quality meals.
All meals for the 2023-24 school year are FREE.
Montague Area Public Schools Food Service Department is committed to providing and serving foods that best enhance our students' academic, athletic and personal performance. Montague Food Service Department prepares breakfast and lunch for over 1000 students daily, preschool through 12th grade.
U.S.D.A. guidelines are followed to ensure that our children are offered healthy choices at every age level. Each lunch includes a main entree and side choices of fat free chocolate or white milk, juice, fruit, vegetables and breads. All schools have a salad bar and over a dozen fruit and vegetable choices each day. Parents can also add special instructions to their child's account in order to inform the food service department of allergies and other menu instructions. Montague Area Public Schools participates in the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program.
Breakfast and Lunch Menus
All menu are now available online or with the Nutrislice App available on Appstore or Google Play.
Click on Link to access online menu
On Line Lunch Payments- Now No Fees!!!
Online payments now can be made from our Family Portal site.
Family Portal - https://montague.familyportal.cloud/
Quick tips for setting up an account to deposit money:
*Must have the student ID number
*Must have the students name the same as we have in our system. (Ex. If we have Jonathon but you put Jon and application it won't work.)
Family Portal helpline:1-877-383-3100.
Email gormand@mapsk12.org for account info
MAPS Real Food SEED Project
Student Engagement Every Day
Montague Food Service Department has developed a program called MAPS Real Food SEED (Student Engagement Every Day) Project. The overall goal of the project is to help students make connections to the source of their food and the seasonality of Michigan products, specifically fruits and vegetables. We do this through a number of programs:
- Cultivate Michigan is our collaboration with students from Muskegon Area Career Tech Center’s Catering & Culinary Program who create new recipes from seasonal Michigan products and conduct taste test in all school buildings
- Chef’s Select are items we menu daily that have limited additives and colors with a focus on cleaner nutritional label.
- Harvest of the Month features Michigan fruits and vegetables found locally during each specific month, introducing the concept of seasonality to students. Apples, Winter Squash, Cranberries, Brassica and Dry Beans have been highlighted so far this year. A monthly newsletter with links and videos is developed as a resource for teachers to incorporate Harvest of the Month activities into the classroom.
MAPS Real Food SEED Project Coordinator, Lynn DeVlieg. Lynn can be contacted at devliegl@mapsk12.org.
Link to District Wellness Policy
Meal Accountability Procedures
This procedure establishes a clear student meal purchasing process that ensures student will have a healthy meal, students will be treated with dignity and foster clear, positive communication for students and parents.