Free Meals Continue Into New School Year

Free Meals Continue Into New School Year
Posted on 07/29/2021
Lunch program extendedOnce again, Superintendent Himmel requested and received approval from the Florida Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Services Office to allow public school students free meals through the end of the 2021-22 school year.

Students will be eligible to receive free school breakfast and free school lunch.  This does not include Ala Carte items.

In addition, students/parents will be allowed to pick-up weekend snacks ONLY on Fridays, from 12:15-1:15 pm, at the following schools:
➢ Pleasant Grove Elementary
➢ Floral City Elementary
➢ Forest Ridge Elementary
➢ Citrus Springs Elementary
➢ Crystal River High School
➢ Lecanto High School
➢ Homosassa Elementary
➢ Rock Crusher Elementary

If you have any questions regarding brick-and-mortar meals, please contact the Citrus County Schools Food and Nutrition Services Department, Ms. Jen Zizek, at 352-726-1931, ext. 2432.

We are also excited to offer our Citrus eSchool students free school breakfast and free school lunch for the 2021-2022 school year.

Curbside pickup of the 5-day meals will be available for pickup on Mondays ONLY from 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm at Citrus High School in Inverness.

In order for Citrus eSchool Students to receive their 5 days-worth of free school meals, parents MUST insure the following:
➢ Students 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 be enrolled in Citrus eSchool.
➢ Parents 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 have, or setup, a google account to pre-order meals.
➢ Meal pickups are by pre-order 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘, pre-orders 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 be placed 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐧.
➢ Meal pre-order pickups are at Citrus High School, on Monday's, from 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
➢ One pre-order submission per student, the form at the end will ask if you need to submit additional pre-orders.

If you have any questions about Citrus eSchool meals, please contact the Citrus County Schools Food and Nutrition Services Department, Mr. Sal Capasso, at 352-726-1931, ext. 2425.

We are looking forward to serving our students for the upcoming school year!