Food Service

Current Menus   May-June 2013 Breakfast Menu   April 2013 Breakfast Menu   May-June 2013 Lunch Menu   April 2013 Lunch Menu Menu Archive   Free & Reduced Lunch Application USDA My Plate Budgeting for Monthly Meals for Students & Families Peanut Allergy Information Peanut Butter Letter to Families- Oct. 22, 2012 School Lunch: Hot Lunch vs. Cold Lunch New School Meal Patterns Why have recess before lunch? Lunch Program Offer vs. Serve Division of Responsibility at Mealtime Comfortable Cafeterias: Positive, Pleasant Mealtimes in Schools - (approx. 15 minutes)

Breakfast is served at 7:50 every morning. Lunch is served at 11:45 am for grades 5-8 and grades K-4 eat their lunch at 12:05 p.m. We encourage all students, parents, staff and community members to eat school lunch every day! Mrs. Houghton & Mrs. Gunderson are great cooks!

Gallatin Gateway School offers qualifying families a free lunch program and also a reduced lunch program. These forms were mailed to families in August, but if your family needs a new form please stop by the office. These forms are confidential, so and we encourage everyone to apply even if you think you may not qualify. Also, if at any time during the year your family has financial hardships please stop by and complete the form. Free and reduced lunch can be used all year long, or month-to-month depending on your families needs. Many grants we apply for are awarded to schools based on the number of family's that qualify for our breakfast/lunch program. Please remember that families who qualify don't necessarily need to participate in the program for the school to earn credit toward the grant. This program ensures a balanced meal to every student every day, please participate!

Please have students bring their lunch money to the office for it to be credited to their account. Students, parents, staff and community members can eat meals for the following prices:

Studies show…
School breakfast resulted in significant: increases in math grades, decreases in student absences, decreases in student tardiness and decreases in ratings of psychosocial problems.

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School “The Relationship of School Breakfast to Psychosocial and Academic Functioning” http://archpedi.ama-assn.org (search “past issues” for 1998 vol. 152 no. 9)

"Students who ate school breakfast often had math grades that averaged almost a letter grade higher than students who ate school breakfast rarely."
— Pediatrics, Vol. 101 No.1, January 1998