Irving ISD Food & Nutrition Services

We’ve enjoyed participating in the Texas Department of Agriculture’s October Farm Fresh Challenge this year! 🥳

Our fresh fruit baskets have featured Texas grown apples throughout the month. We’re very proud to serve delicious, local products. 🍎

Help Food & Nutrition Services choose the winners for this year’s National School Breakfast Week Drawing Contest held at elementary schools. The top five drawings have been selected, and we need YOUR vote to help us choose the winners! 🥇🥈🥉

Voting is limited to one vote per person. The voting deadline is Thursday, April 6th at 2:00 p.m. We will have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, with prizes for each. 🥳🏆

Link to vote:
https://irvingisd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bx7ZJKw94HSqj1c

To prepare for National School Breakfast Week, Irving ISD Food & Nutrition asked our cafeteria teams to create a counter display for advertising using common items from their kitchen (with minimal amounts of craft supplies). The THEME for this year is "DIG INTO SCHOOL BREAKFAST" or "Building a Better Breakfast". Entries must fit on a standard sheet pan, and they could use a minimal amount of food to create the display. All employees would vote on their favorite at our recent department in-service training. The top three teams would get a (in house) catered lunch, and a jean's pass. Plus they would get to display their entry for their students during NSBW!
WOW! Were we really surprised at the fun and creative entries!!!!
Here are are winning entries and several other favorites.



National School Breakfast Week (March 6th - March 10th 2023) celebrates the importance of a nutritious school breakfast in fueling students for success. This special observance during the first week of March celebrates the national School Breakfast Program and the many ways it gives kids a great start every day. For more information, visit https://schoolnutrition.org/ , or https://www.irvingisd.net/Foodservices

📣We're participating in the Texas Department of Agriculture's October Farm Fresh Challenge! 📣

Our menus have featured Texas grown apples, pears, and oranges throughout the month. We're so proud to serve delicious, local products. 🍎🍐🍊

We’re gearing ⚙️ our students up for college 🏫 by feeding them healthy school lunches 🍔

Big shout out to our Townley Elementary staff for celebrating college day yesterday as part of our National School Lunch Week celebrations 🎉

Behind-the-scenes look of the Townsell kitchen staff’s feature on Irving ISD’s Twitter. 🎥

Click the link below to get a glimpse into the amazing work our team does every day! 👀🍝

Watch: https://t.co/wNTjQczfYa

Happy National School Lunch Week! 🍔🌮

Join us during LUNCH on October 11-14, 2022 to celebrate. 🥳🎉

🚨 ALL students who eat school lunch this week will be automatically entered into a raffle to win prizes. 🚨

One high school student will win Apple Airpods, one middle school student will win Beats Buds, and one elementary school student at each school will win a book. Increase your chances by eating school lunch every day! 🎟🎁

Our department in-service was AMAZING! 🤩

We learned, celebrated, and even taught our staff how to stretch to prevent aches and pains. 💪🏻

We’re so excited to be able to feed your students again this year. 🤩

Here’s a look at some of the great work our school lunch heroes have done in the first two weeks. 🚌

📢 This school year, Irving Independent School District will transition back to application requirement for free and reduced-price school meals at high schools only.

‼️ Pre-K through 8th Grade will still receive breakfast and lunch at NO CHARGE.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress authorized spending that allowed schools to serve free meals for all students. Those funds are not authorized to continue for the 2022-2023 school year. As a result, Irving ISD must return to the following processes:

High Schools ONLY:
➡️ Starting on August 1, 2022, Irving ISD will begin distributing letters and applications to the households of High School students about eligibility benefits.
➡️ High school families are encouraged to complete the Application for Free and Reduced-Price School Meals, online at https://schoolcafe.com/IRVINGISD or in person at the Irving I.S.D. School Meals Application Center at 800 N. O’Connor Road, Irving, Texas 75061. (Located: corner of N. O’Connor Rd. & Union Bower) Office hours Monday- Thursday 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM and Friday 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM.

Early Childhood, Elementary and Middle Schools ONLY:
The Irving Independent School District will continue to operate the Community Eligibility Program (CEP) for the 2022-2023 school year at Early Childhood, Elementary and Middle Schools. All students at these schools, regardless of their ability to pay, will be eligible to receive a free breakfast and lunch, without need for a meal application.

Breakfast is served at no cost to ALL Irving ISD Students. 🥞

REMINDER 📣

We are still providing meals to students and children in the community Monday-Thursday.

To learn more info about locations and times, visit IrvingISD.net/SummerMeals

Happy Monday, !

Don’t forget that Irving ISD Food and Nutrition Services is providing meals to students and children in the community, 18 years and younger, Mondays - Thursdays during the summer!

To learn more info about locations and times, visit IrvingISD.net/SummerMeals.

Irving ISD Food and Nutrition Services cares about "our kids" and other children in the community. Hunger doesn't stop just because school is out for the summer. 🚌

We want to make sure EVERY child has the opportunity to receive a hot, nutritious meal EVERY day. 🍝🥗

During our summer meals program, everyone 18 years and younger (no ID required) is entitled to FREE meals served at any of the summer feeding sites. Click the link below or text "FOOD" to 304-304 to find a feeding location near you. 📲

Summer feeding sites: https://www.irvingisd.net/Page/3253

All of our campuses featured strawberries on their menus throughout the week. What a yummy treat! 🍓

Congratulations to Rosie Castillo, Cafeteria Manager at Elliott Elementary, for being Irving ISD Food & Nutrition Services’ School Lunch Hero 2022. 💪

We are so proud of Rosie and all of our School Lunch Heroes! 💛

In honor of School Lunch Hero💪Day, Rosie Castillo, cafeteria supervisor at Elliott Elementary School has been named the School Lunch Superhero!🍎🍌🍞

Learn more about her and why she was selected👉http://theinsider.irvingisd.net/2022/05/06/school-lunch-superhero/

Irving ISD Food & Nutrition Services invites you to join us this Thursday, May 5th from 5:00pm-6:00pm for our Menu Advisory Committee meeting at Travis Middle School. 📣

All members of the IISD community are welcome to attend. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Come out to get a sneak peek of the 2022-2023 School Year menus, try new menu items, and learn more about IISD Food and Nutrition Services! 🥙

Congratulations to the winners of our National School Breakfast Week Drawing Contest for elementary schools! 🥳🏆

The winners are:
1st place - Man Deih
2nd place - Finn Caldon
3rd place (tie) - Valentina Merino and Natalia Estrada

Great news! 📣📣

Irving ISD Food and Nutrition Services is excited to announce that we have been ranked second best school district in North Texas and 21st in the state of Texas in the Kroger School Food Ratings. The rankings are sponsored by Children at Risk. 🥈🎉

This is the fourth consecutive year that Irving ISD has been recognized by North Texas Food Ratings. 🏆

View the press conference: https://fb.watch/cuCdK36b6h/

We had a great time taste testing Chicken Dumplings and Thai Style Chili Sauce for our 2022-2023 lunch menus! 🥟🌶

The students at Cardwell Career Prep Center loved the combination. 😋

Please help us choose the winners for this year’s National School Breakfast Week Drawing Contest. The top five drawings have been selected, and we need your vote to help us choose the winners! 🏅

Voting is limited to one vote per person. The voting deadline is Tuesday, April 5th, at 2:00PM. We will have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, with prizes for each. 🏆

***VOTING IS CLOSED***

Link to vote:
https://irvingisd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8GrOEWNXjlNVo7I

Week three of the came to our supper menus with delicious, Texas-grown grapefruit. 🍊

What a great way to end last week! 😋

Happy National Nutrition Month! 🍉🥬🍌

Our Dietitian/Menu Planner, Kajin Tovi, shared some healthy cooking tips with Irving ISD this week. Stay tuned for their video! 🤩

National School Breakfast Week celebrations continue! 🥳

This week, we featured Potato Hash Bowls at high schools and Eggoji Breakfast Plates at middle and elementary schools. So yummy! 🥞🍳🤩

Our elementary school students received breakfast bookmarks in celebration of National School Breakfast Week yesterday. 📚

What a GREAT way to start the day! 🤩

National School Breakfast Week 2022 is here! 🥞🍳

Join us during breakfast on March 7-11, 2022 to celebrate. 🥳🎉

Middle and high school students who eat breakfast this week will be automatically entered into a raffle to win Apple AirPods. Increase your chances by eating breakfast every day! 🎟

📣🚨Irving ISD is participating in the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Spring 2022 Farm Fresh Challenge! Fresh food should be integral to a child’s meal. Whether it’s milk, bread, or grapefruit, we are committed to serving local foods and ingredients in our meals and snacks.

Irving ISD menus feature milk from Borden Dairy, a dairy processor and distributor that operates in Dallas, Texas. Borden milk is served for breakfast, lunch, and supper every day.

Last week the Irving High basketball team joined our cafeteria manager, Ana Castro, for a yummy breakfast. 😋🍳

We love feeding our students! 🤩