Winner's Circle Healthy Eating Program

Winner's Circle Snacks

In 2002-03 our cafeteria implemented the Winner's Circle Program to help students identify great-tasting, healthy menu items at lunch. The healthy and tasty menu items are identified by a logo with a purple star and gold fork. The program emphasizes nutritional guidelines that offer disease prevention for the majority of chronic diseases. These guidelines build on fruits, vegetables, grains and calcium. The nutritional analysis ensures that the fat and sodium are within the recommended guidelines.

And now we are taking take the program even further! We are identifying Winner's Circle snacks that have no more than 35% sugar by weight, no more than 30% of calories from fat, less than 480 mg sodium, and a maximum of 2 servings per individual package. Some of these items include:

Bagels	Icee - Blue Raspberry, Cherry, Orange, Sour Apple, and Grape
Cereal - Cheerios, Rice Krispies, Crispix, and Corn Flakes	100% Juice - Apple, Grape, and Orange, 4 or 6 ounce
Plain Gelatin - Red and Citrus Flavors	Quaker Crisp'ums
Gogurt	Raisins, Individual Packages
Giant Graham Goldfish	Cinnamon Roll, 1 Tablespoon powdered sugar sprinkled on top but with no glaze or icing
Pretzel Goldfish	Sherbet - Lime, Orange, or Raspberry
Bubble Gum Ice Cream	Stauffer's Animal Crackers
Cotton Candy Ice Cream	Moon Pie
Sponge Bob Ice Cream	Hunt's Vanilla Pudding
Towering Tornado Ice Cream	Trix Yogurt - Rainbow, Strawberry Banana, or Cherry
Creamsicle Bar Ice Cream	Sweet Rewards Chocolate or Yellow Cake Square
Reckless Rainbow Pop Ups Ice Cream

The Winner's Circle is a healthy dining program that is also being used in some other restaurants, cafeterias and other eating environments across the state. Therefore, you may have already seen it locally.

Please take an active role in what your child eats at school and when dining out. Encourage him or her to select foods labeled with the Winner's Circle logo. If you have any questions about the Winner's Circle Program or any other issues regarding school meals, please contact Child Nutrition Services (856-2918).