Bangor Township Schools
Food Service

2007-2008 Family Application
BTS Bakery and Deli

We stress the importance of breakfast. Whether it is at home or at school,
your child should never start the day without it

We Serve Education! Welcome to a new school year.  We, in the Bangor Township Food Services department are working hard to make sure that one of the components of a healthy school environment is to ensure that healthful food choices are offered in our cafeterias throughout the school district.  Our food is prepared hot and fresh in each building to ensure the best quality.  Our professional food service staff all has Food Safety and Sanitation certification. 

Our commitment to strengthen our program is for better nutrition for all children.   Your child’s health is important to us and improving our program is an ongoing process that we take pride in.

We are striving towards providing our students with the healthiest foods.  We are serving whole grain foods such as whole wheat bread and oatmeal also our chicken nuggets and chicken patties are now having a whole grain breading.  Our pizza has a whole grain crust and low fat mozzarella cheese and our ravioli are fortified with additional vitamins and minerals.  We use turkey meat in our taco filling and all of our foods are baked. 
We are trying to focus more on fresh fruits in addition to canned and dried varieties.  To encourage more calcium we have brought milk in plastic bottling.  This has proven to be a much fresher tasting product that the students seem to really like.  More milk is being drunk by the students and we have noticed a lot less waste.  We are staying away from the butters and oils and instead we are starting to use a wide variety of seasonings to spice up taste.  Also this year we are going to vary our veggies.  We will also have some fun doing that with our new Two Bite Club.    I hope that you encourage your child to be an active member. 

The Two Bite Club - Sometimes it’s a struggle to get kids to try new foods.  They seem to like to stick with a few favorites: peanut butter and jelly, chicken nuggets, French fries and juice.  We know that they need more variety in their diets, so we decided that we should make it fun to try new foods.
The Food Service staff is putting together a list of foods that your child might not have ever tried.  They will prepare one new item each week and encourage the children to try it.  If they try two bites, they will be given a Two Bite Certificate that will hang in the lunch room.  The student with the most certificates at the end of the school year will be rewarded with a wonderful prize.
Some of the items we will try are: Asparagus, Brown Rice, Squash, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Swiss cheese, Mango, and Zucchini. If you have any ideas or suggestions for us to try please let us know.

How to Get Your Child to Try New Foods  1. Offer a small serving of a new food along with familiar favorites. 2. Children who help prepare are more willing to eat it later. 3. Nix a Mix.  Offer new foods alone before mixing with other foods.4.Monkey see, monkey do.  Eat a new food and your child may too. 5. Timing is everything.  Children are more likely to be open to new foods when they are well rested, yet hungry. The bottom line: It’s the parent’s responsibility to offer nutritious foods, but it’s best for your child’s development of healthy eating habits to decide how much, if any, to eat.

*** Fascinating Food Fact - It takes 8-10 exposures to an unfamiliar food before a child is willing to try it. Best Approach? Don ’t give up if your child turns his or her nose up at a food half-a-dozen times.  Continue to offer-not  force- new foods.