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UPDATE 7-1-2024 -  Mount Airy City Schools have qualified for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) district wide, which means all MACS students will receive FREE breakfast and lunch for the 2024-2025 school year. 
No free/reduced meal price applications will be made available. 
Welcome to the Mount Airy City Schools School Nutrition Program web page.  We hope this site will become a useful tool for you.  If at any time you have suggestions or comments please contact our office at 336-789-7514 or send an email to the School Nutrition Director, Celena Watson at [email protected].
 
351 Riverside Drive   Mount Airy, NC  27030
 

School Nutrition Contact Information:

Celena Watson, School Nutrition Director [email protected]          336-789-7514 ext. 1037

Melissa Martin, Administrative Assistant   [email protected]        336-789-7514 ext. 1042

Carolyn Boggs, Cafeteria Manager, B.H. Tharrington Primary School           336-789-2888

Robin Semones, Cafeteria Manager, J.J. Jones Intermediate School            336-786-1010

Candice Dollyhite, Cafeteria Manager, Mount Airy Middle School                 336-786-1757

Lynn Sheppard, Cafeteria Manager, Mount Airy High School                       336-786-5366

Choose MYPLATE.gov

 New USDA Nutritional Guidelines

State and federal requirements are based on the USDA Dietary Guidelines. We provide students with access to a variety of affordable and appealing foods that meet the health and nutrition needs of students.

Get on track to a new healthier you...it's time to create your own personal nutrition and fitness plan using the new USDA SuperTracker. This new nutrition and fitness tracking tool combines the simplicity of the ChooseMyPlate visual diagram for recommended foods with the importance of getting a healthy dose of physical activity heralded in the Let's Move campaign.

Think of the SuperTracker as your very own personal trainer that helps you put together your personal health plan, setting personal health and fitness goals, and then tracks and coaches your progress. You can track what you eat, record minutes of exercise, watch your weight, and then best of all, track your progress through a series of easy to use graphical calculators and reports. 

The SuperTracker is the complete package. When setting up your personal profile you can customize the activities you like to do and the duration you like to do them.

They key components of the ChooseMyPlate concept is to make sure that half of the plate is fill of fruits and vegetables, with a little less than a quarter being lean proteins, the balance being whole grains and your dairy choices should be low fat. It's that easy!

The new guidelines focus on 3 key areas...

Balancing Calories

  • Enjoy your food, but eat less
  • Avoid oversized portions

Foods to Increase

  • Make half your plate fruits and vegetables
  • Make at least half your grains whole grains
  • Switch to fat-free or low fat (1%) milk

Foods to Reduce

  • Compare sodium in foods like soup, bread, and frozen meals
    - and choose the foods with lower numbers
  • Drink water instead of sugary drinks
 

The old Food Pyramid has been replaced with new simpler concept of ChooseMyPlate. This simple plate method of meal planning has long been used by dieticians and provides an easy familiar graphic of the dinner plate to help better understand the 2010 Dietary Guidelines of how we should be choosing a healthy diet. Click on www.ChooseMyPlate.gov

 

 

U.S. Food Recall Information

For the most current information regarding food recalls in the United States please visit the site below. 

http://www.recalls.gov/