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Taste Tests Fuel Menu Updates
From March through May, CKC Good Food hosted commissary tours and taste sessions with 10 school groups, totaling more than 120 people representing a range of ages and cultural backgrounds. We host these sessions each spring to give students a behind-the-scenes look at where their school meals are prepared and background on the nutritional guidelines that shape school meals.
The Less-Sweet Truth about Sugar in School Meals
Parents are increasingly concerned about added sugars in their kids’ diets. Scientific research, news reports and social media influencers are calling attention to the negative health consequences that may be tied to eating a lot of sugar: increased obesity, heart disease, chronic inflammation, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes.
Fresh Flavors Coming This Summer
Chicken salad flatbread. Cool honey-mustard pasta. Chilled mango chicken salad. Citrus chicken bun. Mint cilantro chicken wrap. Chilled fusilli ranch pasta.
Balanced & Delicious: Private Program Menus
Our recipe and menu development team has worked hard to “beef up” our menus for our client partners operating private food service programs. Just like our menus for public programs, our private menus have a variety of delicious meals that appeal to a range of tastes on a 6-week rotation. Both can offer multiple daily options, including hot entrée, hot vegetarian entrée, allergen meals, and freshly prepared deli sandwiches and salads.
Prioritizing Local & American Produce
CKC Good Food prides itself on providing the freshest, most tasteful food possible to our client sites. Our menus feature a wide variety of local and American products, including seasonal fruits and vegetables.
RSVP Today for Spring Taste Tests
We encourage you to assemble a group of those you serve, family members and board members to come to our commissary for our spring taste tests and tours!
Taste Tests & Facility Tours: Look Behind-the-Scenes of Your School Meals
One of our favorite times of year is approaching - the season when we welcome groups to our commissary for tours and taste tests of foods we're evaluating for our menus. Our guests always give us very honest, valuable feedback that only makes CKC Good Food and our menus better. And guests are generally engaged as we tour them through our massive kitchen and warehouse. We invite schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program to bring a group to our commissary for a session between March 3 and May 22.
Vegetarian Menu Refreshed
While only about 10% of the meals prepped at our main commissary are for our hot vegetarian menu, our menu development and recipe team doesn't neglect refreshing the menu. They aim to offer a menu that has a variety of tasty options, including some ethnic meals, such as bean and cheese pupusas, cheese quesadillas and bean & cheese burritos.
Choose Your Breakfast Menu
Did you know CKC Good Food offers multiple breakfast menu templates from which our client partners can choose? Each menu is filled with a variety of foods that have widespread appeal, particularly with young people.