LEONARDTOWN, Md. – In anticipation of hitting the milestone of serving two million meals this college 12 months, St. Mary’s County Public Colleges will mix this celebration with the annual Nationwide College Breakfast Week beginning March 7-11, 2022. This 12 months’s Kickoff Celebration can be at City Creek Elementary College on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, throughout breakfast!
Busy weekday mornings make it a problem for a lot of households to make time for a wholesome breakfast. This 12 months, the U.S. Division of Agriculture is permitting all kids to obtain college breakfast and lunch free of charge, with out an software, so it’s a good time for households to provide college breakfast a strive. The USDA College Breakfast Program at the moment serves greater than 14 million college students every single day. Research present that college students who eat college breakfast usually tend to:
- Attain increased ranges of feat in studying and math
- Rating increased on standardized checks
- Have higher focus and reminiscence
- Be extra alert
- Preserve a wholesome weight
The Nationwide College Breakfast Week (NSBW) marketing campaign theme, “Take Off with College Breakfast,” reminds your complete college neighborhood that faculty breakfast supplies a wholesome and energizing begin to the day for college students. College vitamin professionals and college students can be inspired to indicate enthusiasm for college breakfast from March 7-11 because the district celebrates with particular menus, cafeteria occasions, and extra.
Different occasions for the week embrace highlighting our Breakfast within the Classroom Program at Lexington Park Elementary on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, with “Milk Moo-staches,” “Hear the Maryland Crunch Day” at Mechanicsville Elementary on Thursday, March 10, 2022, and a particular new breakfast merchandise on Friday, March 11, 2022, at each college!
“A wholesome breakfast at the beginning of the day is an effective way to make sure college students get one of the best schooling they will,” states Megan Doran, Director of Meals and Vitamin Providers. “Nationwide College Breakfast Week helps us educate dad and mom and college students about all of the wholesome, great-tasting, and interesting selections we provide.”
The district serves over 800,000 breakfast meals yearly by the federally funded College Breakfast Program. College vitamin professionals in St. Mary’s County Public Colleges put together breakfast and lunches every single day that meet federal vitamin requirements – limiting fats, energy, and sodium – whereas encouraging college students to select from the fruits, greens, and complete grains supplied with college meals.