Check Out New School Menu Templates

Updated menu templates are available from the NCDPI, Office of School Nutrition for School Food Authorities (SFAs) for the first half of the 2022-23 school year (August 2022-January 2023) to use to promote school meals. As themes, artwork, and messaging become available for National Nutrition Month, National School Breakfast Week, and other promotional events for the spring, additional menu templates will be developed and disseminated for the remainder of the school year. The menu templates can be downloaded from the NCDPI, Office of School Nutrition website. As you review, share, and use the menu templates, please note the following:

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794d) requires that electronic and information technology of Federal agencies and agencies that receive Federal funding is accessible to people with disabilities, including employees and members of the public. The updated/new menu templates have been designed to comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

The menu templates were created in Word to allow for ease of use for adding in local contact and menu information. You may choose to share the menu templates in Word or PDF format, or both, with your school community. After you have added in your local contact and menu information and before you share the menu templates, please run an accessibility check using tools available within Word or Adobe software to make sure the menu templates are still compliant and will work with visual reader software. If you have access to visual reader software, you may wish to run an accessibility check using the software as well.

The menu templates are created for two audiences – elementary for parents/families and middle/high for students.

The menu templates are two pages in length – one page for your breakfast menu and one page for your lunch menu – to allow enough room to list all your available menu choices. If you can fit your breakfast and lunch menu choices within the blocks for each day, feel free to use only one page of the menu template and update the title at the top of the page accordingly.

For your convenience, alternate text has been included for the image header, month table, and footer with NCDPI logo and nondiscrimination statement. Please do not remove the alt text.

For more information regarding Section 508 compliance, please visit the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP) Section 508 website. If you have questions regarding the menu templates, please reach out to your Zone teams or Tracey Bates, School Nutrition Promotion Specialist, tracey.bates@dpi.nc.gov