food

Food & Nutrition Services

Our food service department offers nutritious meals to MCSD students each day in every building. We provide a variety of menu choices for students and staff. The Marshalltown Food Service Department operates as a self-supporting program. All money received for cafeteria sales goes to provide salaries for the food service employees, equipment for 10 kitchens, and quality ingredients for our meals.

Meal Payments
Menus
Catering Menu

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a non-pricing meal service option for schools and school districts in low-income areas. CEP allows the nation’s highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting household applications. Instead, schools that adopt CEP are reimbursed using a formula based on the percentage of students categorically eligible for free meals based on their participation in other specific means-tested programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).

Summer Meals

Meal Prices 2023-2024 School Year

Breakfast

Lunch

Single Milk

Elementary

$0

$0

$0.50

Lenihan

$0

$0

$0.50

Miller & High School

$0

$0

$0.50

Adults

$2.50

$4.84

$0.50

Reduced Rate

$0.30

$0.40

$0.50

Note: A single milk purchase is $0.50. A student whom brings their lunch from home and wishes to have a milk with their lunch, must purchase a milk.

MCSD is committed to providing accommodations to students with food allergies, when medically necessary. If your child requires a diet modification at meal times, please have your child’s physician complete the Diet Modification Form and return it to the nurse at your student’s building or to the Food Service Office. 

Allergies Board Policy

Mission Statement

The Marshalltown Community School District Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) Department will serve nutritious, high quality food in a pleasing manner to students and staff of the school district while keeping the department fiscally sound and in accordance with USDA regulations. 

As school nutrition professionals, it is our responsibility to provide nutritious meals to students in order to fuel their minds and bodies for academic success. Every customer, student and staff member should be guaranteed high quality food with excellent service every day of the year. 

Department Contacts

Lynn Large