CPS Food & Nutrition Services

All families are welcome to stop by Free Food Markets this summer! They offer fresh fruits, vegetables, and pantry items. The first one is this Thursday!

Thank you @MassGovernor Healey for signing the FY26 budget into law with $180 Million for #SchoolMealsforAll! This is the largest investment in the program yet, ensuring all MA students can access school meals so they can be healthy, learn & thrive. #FeedKids #MakeHungerHistoryMA

📢 Huge thank you to all school nutrition heroes across America for a wonderful school year! 🍎These dedicated individuals work hard to fuel students with the healthy meals they need to be at their best every single school day. #SchoolMeals #SchoolLunch #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain

Today we served up a student favorite, Hand Breaded Halal Chicken Bites, using fresh halal chicken for our local partners Mayflower Poultry! #schoollunch #schoolmealsrock #scratchcooking #schoolmeals #cambridgefood #freshschoolmeals #halalchicken

Did you know school lunch could be this good? We tried out a new menu item today: Ethiopian Halal Chicken with Jollof Rice, Green beans & fruit! What should we try out next? #NSLP #NSLW24 #schoollunch #schoollunchrocks #madewithschoollunch #halalchicken #jollofrice

We are excited to celebrate National School Lunch Week next week! Follow along next week as we share some fun facts about what it takes to feed 3,800 students a day! Let’s celebrate the power of school lunch! 🌮🐟🌽🍎🥗🍊🍏🥘 #NSLP #NSLW24 #schoollunch #madewithschoollunch

Join @CambMA for free food and fun this summer! The Cambridge Summer Food Program provides free breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals to Cambridge children and youth. Learn more: bit.ly/3WesJEA

The last week of school is all Chef’s Choice! Check out what our chefs are cooking up next week 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳@cambridge_cpsd #chefschoice #schoollunch #cambridgefood #scratchcooking #schoollunchrocks

Check out our Chef’s Choice lunch menus for tomorrow’s Early Release Day! #chefschoice #schoollunch #cambridgefood #scratchcooking #schoollunchrocks

Students celebrated School Lunch Hero Day last Friday! Our @CPSD_Nutrition (FNS) team cooks (from scratch!) and serves about 3,600 lunches every day across all 13 Cambridge school campuses to make sure students are fed nutritious meals and are ready to learn. 1/2

Due to the snow day we had on Feb 13th, our lunch menu for this week has changed! Check it out below and on our webpage: cpsd.us/departments/fo… @cambridge_cpsd #lunchmenu #update

We are growing our team of #schoolchefs. 🧑‍🍳Join us as we work to feed @cambridge_cpsd students and apply today to be a Head of Kitchen or a Cashier/Cafeteria Helper! cpsd.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx #hiring #newjob #scratchcooking #schoolcooks #schoollunch #cambridgema

How do we make enough pasta to feed 50 students at once? 🍝 We use our tilt skillet! All 13 of our kitchens have industrial kitchen equipment, allowing us to produce high quantities of food at once to feed our students #schoollunch #scratchcooking #NSLW23 #batchcooking #cambma

National School Lunch Week (Oct. 9-13) was created by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 to promote the importance of a healthy school lunch in a child's life & the impact it has inside & outside of the classroom. We're proud that Universal Free School Meals are now... 1/3

Did you know?... Next week is National School Lunch Week!! Follow along with us to get a behind the scenes look at what it takes to feed about 4,000 students across 18 schools everyday! #schoollunch #NSLW23 #schoollunchrocks #nationalschoollunchweek #cambridgelunch

Baldwin, @Cport_School , and Graham & Parks will have an altered menu tomorrow Friday, October 6th due to supply chain issues. Apologies for any inconvenience. @cambridge_cpsd #menuchange #schoollunch #cpsd

Psstt @CRLStweets the Pasta Station opens today 🍝 Thank you for your patience as we working to finish up our kitchen upgrades.

Enjoy Our Healthy Snack of the Week: Zucchini Mini Pizzas! @CambMA @cambridge_cpsd @CPSD_Nutrition

We are excited to share that Universal Free School Meals have been made permanent in Massachusetts! This means school breakfast & lunch will be at no cost for all students who select a complete meal! bit.ly/cps-fns @cpsd_nutrition #CambPS #CambMA

Thank you to @MassGovernor and the entire MA legislature, for investing in permanent #SchoolMealsforAll! We are excited to continue serving @cambridge_cpsd students free breakfast and lunch this upcoming school year and beyond! #schoollunchrocks