AESD Child Nutrition

AESD Child Nutrition Alhambra Elementary Child Nutrition

Educate. Serve. Celebrate

Educate students to make healthy choices to establish positive attitudes around food.

Serve nutritious & flavorful meals. Celebrate foods of our community so all students are represented.

Can you guess which NEW homemade item will be featured for National School Breakfast Week?It’s homemade Chocolate Concha...
02/26/2026

Can you guess which NEW homemade item will be featured for National School Breakfast Week?

It’s homemade Chocolate Conchas (a type of Mexican Sweet Bread)!

These past couple of months our bakery team has been hard at work perfecting this recipe and we can’t wait to debut it with students next Thursday (3/5) in celebration for National School Breakfast Week.

Come through the cafeteria for a fun week where we will be featuring brunch for lunch, homemade Chocolate Conchas, and prizes for “Lucky Tray” winners!

02/24/2026

🥣 Another comfort food turned into a school-approved homemade recipe!

This year, our Menu Development Team split into two separate teams to test out two different “Recipes of the Year,” and the theme that came out of both of these recipe ideas was... Comfort food.

Team 1 worked together to create the first draft of their “Recipe of the Year” - Sopa de Fideo (Noodle Soup)! This classic comfort recipe was adapted from a recipe that our team often makes at home, so it is made with EXTRA love.

Fideo is one of the two recipes we will be taste testing this week with Middle Schoolers at Alhambra Traditional School. The other recipe we will be taste testing alongside this recipe is Team 2’s Sopa de Albóndigas (Meatball Soup).

We hope students are as excited to test it as we are to serve it!

02/20/2026

🤔 Can you guess what we are cooking up?

This year, our Menu Development Team split into two separate teams to test out two different “Recipes of the Year,” and the theme that came out of both of these recipe ideas was... Comfort food.

Here you see Team 2 working together to create the first draft of their“Recipe of the Year.” Fresh vegetables, meatballs, broth, and homemade goodness all wrapped into one to create a school-approved version of Sopa de Albóndigas (Meatball Soup)!

Sopa de Albóndigas is a hearty soup that is cooked with heart that brings comfort to those who love it!

Next week, we will be taste testing this recipe with Middle Schoolers at Alhambra Traditional School. We can’t wait to hear what students think!

02/16/2026

👩‍🍳 “Chefs, you have arrived at the Chopping Block.”

At our Managers’ Meeting this month, we decided to switch it up and host a “Chopped-style” competition as a refresher on the recipe standardization process. Our Managers were challenged to create a new, fun Salad Bar recipe in 45 minutes.

Here’s the kicker: they didn’t learn about the competition until they arrived for the meeting that SAME day, didn’t KNOW which ingredients would be available to them, and couldn’t look up ANY recipes for inspiration. 😳

(It was fun to see what the Managers created on the fly, given such little time!)

Once time was up, we sampled everyone’s creations and voted on three award categories: 1) Most Creative Recipe (winner: Tamara), 2) Student-Centered Recipe (winner: Kristy), and 3) Most Detailed Recipe (winner: Karla). 🏆

This competition was a unique way to refresh our understanding of the recipe standardization process while meeting the USDA’s annual professional development requirements.

Keep following us for more sneak peeks into all that goes into serving school meals!

02/12/2026

😎 The cool kids’ table loved celebrating Pozole Party day with us today at Madrid Neighborhood School!

(Honestly, ALL our students are cool kids.)❤️

Today Child Nutrition Director, Brienne Ross, went and ate some of our homemade Pozole Verde with students at today. This was the adorable footage she captured. It was too cute NOT to share!

Congratulations to all our Lucky Tray winners and a huge thank you to our amazing cafeteria teams who made our first ever Pozole Party a success! 🙌

02/01/2026

🤩 Last weekend, four middle school teams from AESD competed in ’s Feeding the Future culinary competition and created school-approved breakfast dishes.

Naturally, an AESD Child Nutrition team member had to go check it out! She is happy to report that she enjoyed every moment of the event and loved seeing AESD students shine in this culinary competition.

So what did AESD students serve up?

served:
1) Burrito Sabanero (This team won first place out of 10 competing teams!)
2) Masala Chicken Bowl

CatalinaAESD served:
3) Berry Crepe Delight
4) Deliciosas Chilaquiles

(Spoiler Alert: All four dishes were DELICIOUS.)

Haven’t heard of Feeding the Future before? Feeding the Future is a “student recipe competition to serve up a delicious and compliant USDA school tray, featuring Arizona ingredients and love to school food professionals.”

Congrats to all four teams who competed and to our first-place winners, Eduardo, Giselle, Nicol, and Ms. Tomala!

All students eat free at AESD... This includes free Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC)! We serve just under 5,000 total br...
01/26/2026

All students eat free at AESD... This includes free Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC)!

We serve just under 5,000 total breakfasts across the district daily (for free) through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a federal program that allows us to serve school meals at no cost to families.

Start your day the right way with school breakfast! You can checkout our menu on our website at: www.alhambraesd.org/page/menus.

📢 This Saturday (Jan. 24) is “Compliment Day” so we are handing out a HUGE compliment to our Warehouse Crew!The Warehous...
01/23/2026

📢 This Saturday (Jan. 24) is “Compliment Day” so we are handing out a HUGE compliment to our Warehouse Crew!

The Warehouse Crew is behind the scenes coordinating, moving, lifting, shifting, and supporting with last-minute school food emergencies. And the truth is we can’t nourish AESD students without our hardworking Warehouse. All of you are amazing.

That you for all that you do AESD Warehouse crew! 💕

🍪 Homemade Cookies are on the menu tomorrow, Wednesday, January 21st!Our baking team made these cookies by hand (and wit...
01/20/2026

🍪 Homemade Cookies are on the menu tomorrow, Wednesday, January 21st!

Our baking team made these cookies by hand (and with heart 💕) for AESD students to enjoy.

Grab your lunch and a cookie this Wednesday! And remember, you can always find our menu on our website at: www.alhambraesd.org/page/menus.

✌️We are serving this up in your cafeteria this week, so take what you need!1) Whole-grain Muffin on Thursday,2) Balance...
01/19/2026

✌️We are serving this up in your cafeteria this week, so take what you need!

1) Whole-grain Muffin on Thursday,
2) Balanced breakfast daily,
3) Homemade Oatmeal Raisin Cookie on Wednesday,
4) Tasty, hot lunch daily,
5) Friendly smile,
6) And warmth & love from our kitchen to you DAILY!

We hope you had a restful three-day weekend. ❤️ See you in the cafeteria tomorrow!

📢 Students have three entree options Tuesday through Friday (most weeks)!On Mondays we only have 2 entree options becaus...
01/14/2026

📢 Students have three entree options Tuesday through Friday (most weeks)!

On Mondays we only have 2 entree options because we have just had two days off (AKA the weekend) and we want your options to be made fresh!

On Mondays we have a:

🔥 Hot Entrée
🌱 Cold Vegetarian Entrée

Tuesdays through Fridays we have a:

🔥 Hot Entrée
❄️ Cold Entrée
🌱 Cold Vegetarian Entrée

Remember, you can always check out our menus in advance online: https://www.alhambraesd.org/page/menus!

01/14/2026

🍓 Now every Tuesday and Thursday, students have the option of Unflavored Milk, Chocolate Milk, OR Strawberry Milk!

We heard some rumors that students wanted Strawberry Milk back.

So we did some research and made sure the Strawberry Milk met our standards:

✅ Fat Free.
✅ Low in Added Sugar.
✅ No red dye.
✅ Delicious.

Welcome back, Strawberry Milk! We know some students who have missed you. 😉
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