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Instructions and Guidance
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This spreadsheet is intended to show how to create an easy one week cycle menu to accommodate students with special dietary needs. We feel that offering variety and options to students is important. This one week cycle menu may not meet the meal pattern requirements for grains and milk, depending on which milk alternative is chosen. This would require the student to have a medical statement on file in order to be able to provide this meal and be reimbursable. Schools could provide a reimbursable meal within the meal pattern to students with certain special dietary needs without a medical statement. For example, a school could provide brown rice every day to their gluten free students in the correct daily and weekly grain serving sizes without needing a medical statement. Also, if a school provides a milk alternative that meets the nutrition standards set by the USDA, then a medical statement may not be needed. Menus should be planned seasonally. These menus feature fruits and vegetables that might not be available throughout the school year, and schools should update and reflect their menus when items are in-season and available domestically.
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You can find many of the recipes, including spice blends in our culinary training manual, linked below. If you see a menu item with an asterisk (*) next to it, that means the recipe can be found in the manual. You can click the item, and it will take you to the exact page within the manual as well.
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Culinary Training Manual
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Questions? Contact Ashley Heller at aheller@doe.in.gov.
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