Food & Nutrition
P-H-M Food Service Department
56100 Bittersweet Road, Mishawaka, IN 46545
Director of Food Service: Jill Riggs (574) 258-9552
Assistant Director: Mark Wilcox (574) 258-9572
Secretary: Lori Thielka (574) 254-2814
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The P-H-M Food Service department welcomes students and staff members back for another school year of dining with us!
The P-H-M Food Service department prepares great-tasting healthy meals that offer a variety of options to appeal to individual tastes and dietary requirements. Our cafeterias are clean and bright and we create a student-friendly atmosphere that encourages students to make good choices. If you have any questions about our program, please contact Jill Riggs, director of food service.
Free/Reduced Meal and Textbook Information
We encourage families who are struggling to meet expenses due to the loss of a job or reduction in work hours to apply for the National School Lunch Program's free and reduced-pricelunch. The application is easy to fill out (one per household) and it includes a place to indicate that you also want to apply for textbook assistance.
Please make sure to fill out only one form (application) per household, even if the children are in different schools. You must mark the textbook section to be eligible for textbook reductions and sign the form in the textbook section. Free or reduced textbook eligibility will substantially reduce your textbook cost. You may still be required to pay some materials fees.
Here is the Aplicación Para Comidas Escolares Gratis O A Precio Reducido Y Otros Beneficios.
Click on this link for answers to frequently asked questions about the Free/Reduced Meal and Textbook Application.
Nutritional Information
Here is a nutritional breakdown of menu choices: beef products, chicken products, turkey, pork, fruit, vegetable, grain, dairy, egg, fish, nut and seed products.
For more nutritional information, see the Indiana Division of School and Community Nutrition Program web page.
New Service for Parents
The Penn-Harris-Madison Food Service Department has developed a new service for parents - a Birthday Service. Let the P-H-M Food Service Department help you celebrate your child's birthday by ordering a birthday package to be delivered right to their classroom. More information and an order form is included in this Birthday Package flyer.
Payment Options
The P-H-M Food Service Department recommends debit cards as an easy to use option so your child does not need to bring money to school for breakfast or lunch on a daily basis. You may pay on line at www.mylunchmoney.com or send cash or a check to school. Please specify your child's name and "lunch money" on the envelope. Don't forget to specify meal account or ala-carte account. The meal account only allows full meal purchases, ala-carte allows meals or snacks. Meal prices are $1.80 for elementary and $2.00 for middle and high school. If you would like to buy a week's worth of meals, the cost would be $9.00 for elementary and $10.00 for middle and high school. Snacks at the elementary range from $.25 to $.75. Ala-carte at the middle and high schools is from$.50 to $3.00. Milk or juice is $.50. Additional options for Combo meals are available at the high school for $2.25 to $3.00.
When you provide a check as payment for a food purchase in the food service department, you authorize the P-H-M Food Service Department to process the payment as a check transaction. Federal Automated Recovery Systems (FARS) processes our electronic collection of checks returned for insufficient funds (NSF).
You may register your child at MyLunchMoney.com, which is a prepayment system that allows parents to create a secure online account for payment of school meals. MyLunchMoney.com is a very easy and convenient service to manage your student's meal choices and purchasing privileges. Deposits utilizing this service have a nominal cost of $1.95 per deposit. When registering your student, please be sure to add a zero (0) in front of your student's ID number. The registration number must be seven (7) digits.
In addition to the parent tools, MyLunchMoney.com has added a service called "Smart Pay". Smart Pay is designed for busy parents who want to make sure their child always has money but may not always have the time to constantly check their account balance. Smart Pay allows parents to set up their account to automatically replenish when the balance gets low and sends automatic monthly transaction reports of all their MyLunchMoney.com payments.
Please make sure that your child has lunch money available each day. Children without lunch money may be required to call home or have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, milk and fruit, after the first charged meal. You will still be charged for peanut butter and jelly meals. Ala-carte and snack items may not be charged. If your child has a negative balance, they will not be allowed to purchase snacks. Food Services is not allowed to carry negative balances on children's accounts in the National School Lunch Program so if a meal is charged for your student, you must pay the amount due the following day.
Links to sites of interest:
Indiana School and Nutrition web site
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all USDA programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 14th and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call 202-720-5964 or (888) 271-5983 Extension 516 (toll free). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.