Current Regulations

  • A la Carte Regulation Calculator SECONDARY(Excel)
  • A la Carte Regulation Calculator ELEMENTARY (Excel)

    • ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
    Foods that can be sold to students are full meals, exempt foods, and a la carte dairy or whole grain foods that meet specific standards for calories (cal), fat, saturated fat and sugar (see chart below). In addition, no foods can contain artificial trans fat (less than 0.5 gram per serving). This applies from the beginning of school until one-half hour after the school day ends.

    Exempt Foods:

    • Nuts
    • Nut Butters
    • Seeds
    • Eggs
    • Cheese packaged for individual sale
    • Fruit
    • Vegetables that have not been deep fried
    • Legumes

    A la Carte Snacks:

    • Dairy or Whole Grain
      • Not more than 175 calories per individual food items
      • Not more than 35% of its total calories shall be from fat
      • Not more than 10% of its total calories from saturated fat
      • Not more than 35% of its total weight from sugar (natural or added)

  • Elementary Snack Shack/Bar Guidelines and Items

    SECONDARY SCHOOLS (Intermediate & High Schools)
    Foods that can be sold to students are full meals, exempt foods, and a la carte snacks and entrées that meet specific standards for calories, fat, saturated fat and sugar (see chart below).  In addition, no foods can contain artificial trans fat (less than 0.5 gram per serving).  This applies from the beginning of school until one-half hour after the school day ends.


    Exempt Foods:
    • Nuts
    • Nut Butters
    • Seeds
    • Eggs
    • Cheese packaged for individual sale
    • Fruit
    • Vegetables that have not been deep fried
    • Legumes

    A la carte Snacks:

    • Not more than 250 calories per individual food items
    • Not more than 35% of its total calories shall be from fat
    • Not more than 10% of its total calories shall be from saturated fat
    • Not more than 35% of its total weight from sugar (natural or added)

    A la carte Entrées

    • Not more than 400 calories per entrée
    • Not more than 4 grams fat per 100 cal

    List of Food Items that may be sold in Intermediate & High School Student Stores:
    The following is a list of the food items that may be sold in Intermediate and High School Student Stores.   Food items on this list, except for peanuts, must be calculated to see if they meet requirements listed below:

    Beef Jerky
    Cereal Bars
    Chex Mix
    Corn Nuts
    Granola Bars
    Peanuts (exempt from requirements)
    Popcorn
    Pretzels
    Trail Mix

    • No more than 250 calories per individual food item
    • No more than 35% of its total calories shall be from fat
    - no more than 3.88 gm of fat per 100 calories
    • No more than 10% of its total calories shall be from saturated fat
    - no more than 1.1 gm saturated fat per 100 calories
    • No more than 35% of its net weight shall be composed of sugar including naturally occurring and added sugar
    - no more than 35 gm sugar per 100 gm of net weight
    • No foods can contain artificial trans fat (less than 0.5 grams per serving)

    Proposed Regulations:

    The proposed regulations for school meals outlined by the USDA would require an focus on whole grain-rich items, deep orange/red and dark green vegetables as well and a sodium limit. Milk offered would need to be either fat free or 1% low fat.  Additionally, there would be minimums and maximums for calories. 

    Clovis Unified Campus Catering Department is already incorporating many of these proposed regulations.  We currently offer whole grain-rich items and deep orange /red vegetables (i.e.) carrots and sweet potatoes.  We are also offering dark green leafy vegetables in our salads (i.e.) spinach and romaine.  In addition, we have only offered fat free or 1% low fat milk for years and we are continually taking measures to decrease sodium in the foods we serve.