Healthy Meals, Healthy Minds: M-DCPS Showcases FREE School Breakfast & FREE School Lunch and New Menu Items

Food and Nutrition staff, and District administrators

M-DCPS Food & Nutrition will showcase the District's new menu items for the free school breakfast and free school lunch meals available daily to all students for the 2023-2024 school year.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

10 a.m.

Department of Food and Nutrition Test Kitchen

7042 West Flagler Street

Miami, FL 33144

(Entrance to the complex is at S.W. 4th Street between 69th Avenue and 72nd Avenue.)

In just over two weeks, M-DCPS will be welcoming students back to school. Our Food and Nutrition Department has been working diligently to continue to plan healthy, nutritious menus for the school year ahead and inform all parents of the free breakfast and free lunch programs available in all schools every school day.

The department is offering media a behind-the-scenes look at its Test Kitchen as they showcase the District's new menu items for the free school breakfast and free school lunch meals, which include the 3 oz. clean-label beef patty on a white wheat brioche bun, whole grain breaded chicken drumsticks, whole grain veggie pinwheel calzone, whole wheat chicken & vegetable potstickers, whole grain beef & cheese tacos, whole grain-rich cornbread poppers, turkey sausage, egg & cheese breakfast pockets, whole grain chocolate chip muffin top, an egg & cheese potato patty, and a strawberry banana smoothie, along with featured daily menu items including garden salads, sandwiches, and assorted fresh fruit.

- Press availability with Food & Nutrition staff in English/Spanish

- Wide sample selection of meals being offered and new food selections

- Tour of Test Kitchen