Meals & Food from Home

Use this É-Guide as your go-to reference and record of our school policy on school meals and meals from home.

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Timetables

Mealtimes are sacred in Louisiana and our campus is no exception. Students are encouraged to pause, pick up or unpack their meal, and enjoy lunch among friends while respecting classes around them. Le déjeuner is our morning meal and served daily from 8:00-8:25 AM. Le dîner is our mid-day meal, served in intervals from 11:30 AM until 12:30 PM, starting with our youngest in Maternelle (Dîner M), then our 1st graders (Dîner 1), who are followed by increasingly senior students in intervals thereafter.

Use the following table to find your student's interval by grade.

Dîner M	11:30 AM - 11:55 AM
Dîner 1	11:45 AM - 12:10 PM
Dîner 2	12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
Dîner 3	12:10 PM - 12:35 PM
Dîner 4	12:20 PM - 12:45 PM
Dîner 5	12:30 PM - 12:55 PM

*Maternelle (M) = Kindergarten (K)

Localization

M stands for la Maternelle (like K for Kindergarten).

In Louisiana and across North America, we use older French meal names — le déjeuner for breakfast and le dîner for lunch, with le souper being reserved for the evening meal (supper). The table above normalizes local and continental French.

International French, common French, simplifies meal names to le petit-déjeuner for breakfast and le déjeuner for lunch, making le dîner the dinner meal Our students know all variations.

Help

Dîner M is the first interval of our lunch time food service and calls the youngest among us from Maternelle (Kindergarten). Next comes the 1st Graders, who are followed by increasingly senior students in intervals thereafter. For example, Dîner 2 calls all 2nd graders, followed by Dîner 3 for all 3rd graders, Dîner 4 for 4th, until Dîner 5 concludes food service with our 5th graders.

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School Meals

Both déjeuners (breakfasts) and dîners (lunches) are prepared and delivered by our beloved cantinières (lunch ladies) from Sunset Middle School. Menus for both are designed, managed, published by Saint Landry Parish's School Board.

Explore each by clicking the expandable sections below.

Menus

You can view this month's menus for both breakfast and lunch anytime on Saint Landry Parish School Board's website (SLPSB.org).

Breakfasts

Typical items vary and may include cereal, cereal bars, Pop-Tarts, breakfast corndogs, waffles, French Toast, or pancakes. All breakfasts are served with the student's choice of plain white or chocolate milk, orange juice, and fresh fruit (usually oranges or apples).

Lunches

Lunch items vary and may include local favorites like meatball stew or chicken and sausage gumbo, or child-friendly standards like chicken nuggets, hamburgers or chicken burgers with sweet potato fries, or baked chicken.

All lunches are accompanied by a cooked vegetable or salad and, like breakfasts, all lunches are served with a choice of plain or chocolate milk, as well as a choice of fresh or canned fruit.

Cantine

Both meals are delivered and served in la Cantine with our sincerest MERCIs by our cantinières (Lunch Ladies) from Sunset Middle School.

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Meals from Home

Before you consider preparing or packaging a meal for your student, know and share our policies by clicking to expand the following sections:

Birthdays

Parents may opt to purchase and deliver birthday cupcakes, donuts, or similar items and refreshments. We are happy to store them while space is available in Le Bureau (Front Office). Need to know how many you'll need? Please contact Le Bureau by email to get your student's class count:

Office@EcoleStLandry.org

Drinks

Milk and juice (100% juice) drinks are allowed and are available on campus for school meals and as needed. Options are subject to availability and all students are encouraged to bring a water bottle (name on it!) to campus each morning.

Water Bottles

Reusable water bottles are not required but they are highly recommended for access to preferred water throughout the day. Reusable water bottles are the most lost items on campus. The student's name is required on the bottom or side of any water bottle on campus.

Restrictions

Students do not have access to microwaves. Students will store lunches in the classroom according to their teacher's homeroom rules. Students with meals from home consume food that was stored for 4 or more hours in a container(s) or baggies, which were stored in a lunch box. Consider packing student lunches with freezer packs to keep them fresh until meal service.

Food & Meals from Home

Fast food, candy, chips, soft drinks, sugar-based juice drinks, coffee, and similar items are not allowed at campus. Food brought onto campus is consumed during meal times only and must be a variety of items, similar to what is already offered at school. Restrictions: No one may deliver food from restaurants, stores, or order delivery (ex: Waitr, Doordash) on behalf of any student(s). Fast food, candy, chips, soft drinks, sugar-based juice drinks, and coffee are not allowed at school.

Suggestions

All meals from home must strive to incorporate variety, aiming for the inclusion of whole grains and other nutrient-dense foods by following the current meal pattern already offered in our school in accordance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations and policies to include Meat or Plant-Based Alternatives, Grains, Fruit, Vegetables, Milk or Water.

In Saint Landry Parish, each school's principal decides their school's policy with regard to the subjects presented above. École's principal does allow students to bring their own meals from home, provided each meal respects the policies outlined above. You can add a comment below to ask a question or propose new ideas and approaches to this policy.

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