Students may purchase lunch and milk at all schools in the Tustin Unified School District. Lunch prices remain the same as last year for all schools, according to Teresa Squibb, Director of Nutrition Services for the District.

The school lunch prices for 2011-12 are $2.50 for elementary students and $2.75 for middle and high school students. All meals include a healthy entree, fresh fruits and vegetables, and milk. Additional milk will cost 50 cents. An extended a la carte menu for snacks and lunch is offered at the middle and high schools.

Additionally, breakfast is offered at Benson, Beswick, Estock, Guin Foss, Heideman, Lambert, Nelson, Thorman and Veeh elementary schools; Columbus Tustin, Currie, Hewes, Orchard Hills, Pioneer and Utt middle schools; and Beckman, Foothill and Tustin high schools.

Heideman, Lambert and Thorman schools are continuing as Provision 2 schools. Meals are provided at no charge to students at those schools.

Parents can prepay for their child’s meals by bringing a check or cash to the school office or creating an account on www.myLunchMoney.com ($1.95 bank fee), an online prepayment service supporting student lunch accounts. Parents can monitor their child’s lunch account through the service for free. Students access their accounts by entering their student number into a pin-pad at school when buying breakfast or lunch.

Free and reduced-price meal applications and letters outlining procedures, both in English and Spanish, have been distributed to students, as part of the federally-assisted National School Lunch Program. Nutrition Services will be waiving the reduced student’s co-pay for the 2010-11 school year. Therefore all students who qualify for reduced meals will receive both breakfast and lunch at no charge. .

For more information, call the TUSD Nutrition Services Dept. at (714) 730-7301, ext. 396.