OESJ Central Schools

• Food Services Menu (online)

Menus are updated monthly. We reserve the right to make menu substitutions whenever necessary.

During the 2025-26 school year, OESJ Central School District will be participating in the Community Eligibility Provision program, which provides no-cost meals to all students.

CEP is a federal provision that allows high-poverty schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students. This option increases school meal participation by removing stigma, maximizes federal reimbursements, reduces administrative paperwork, and eliminates unpaid school meal debt. CEP schools continue to operate both the School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs and must uphold nutrition standards and meal quality, but processes and procedures for counting and claiming reimbursable meals are simplified. CEP is available to any school, group of schools, or district that has 40 percent or more students directly certified for free school meals, by means other than a school meal application.

School districts that participate in the CEP program:

• Must provide both breakfast and lunch to all students at no cost.
• Do not track meals by fee category (i.e. free, reduced-price, paid). They simply count the total number of meals served.
• Do not collect payment/fees from students.
• Do not collect and verify school meal applications.

While the reduction in paperwork related to traditional free and reduced lunch forms is a clear benefit, New York State still requires CEP schools to collect alternative forms –  also referred to as CEP Household Income Eligibility Form – for other purposes, such as state education funding and Foundation Aid. Also, individual families may be eligible for certain benefits based on the data collected through these forms.

Complete the CEP Household Income Eligibility Form.  This form is now completed online through the new POS system Titan’s family portal LINQ Connect.

Nutritious free meals are available for children and teens 18 and younger at many locations throughout the nation throughout the summer while school is out of session. Please visit USDA Summer Meals for Kids Site Finder,text “Summer Meals” to 97779, or call 1-866-348-6479 to find a site nearby.

We use LINQ Connect to enable families to pay for school lunches and manage their child’s account online. LINQ Connect allows parents to:

• Set low-balance reminders
• Set up automatic meal payments and transfer funds between students
• Create spending limits for the account
• Manage your account using the LINQ Connect app available in the Apple App store and Google Play
• View school lunch menus directly in the app

To sign-up and access the online service, visit LINQ Connect and click “REGISTER” in the upper right hand corner.  From this site you can add money to your child’s school meal account. When creating your account for the first time, you will need your child’s name and birth date or student ID number.  Please contact Susan Frank at (518) 464-5133 or susan.frank@neric.org if you need help.

To make lunchtime more enjoyable for everyone, the cafeteria/lunchroom staff asks that all students:

• Respect the monitor/teacher
• Walk in single file
• Talk in quiet, conversational voice
• Follow posted classroom and lunchtime rules
• No pushing, running or throwing food
• No glass containers
• Keep uneaten food on trays and empty trays carefully
• Remain seated until dismissed by the monitor/teacher

Students who misbehave during lunchtime will be reminded of the rules after their first offense. Students who continue to misbehave will be disciplined under the district’s Code of Conduct.

Catering service for Healthier Snacks for Birthdays, Holiday parties, snacks time or anytime.

With School starting and all of our busy schedules, our cafeteria staff is now offering a Healthier catering service for your needs. Please see attached list of items offered and the price list.

All you would do is fill out the form and return the slip and money the day the snack is needed.

Let us do the cooking for you.