New Breakfast Options for a Healthy, Delicious Start to the School Day


The Feingold Association has worked hard to influence the food served in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), a suburb of Washington, DC. In recent years other volunteers have taken up the challenge.



Today, things are looking up!

This week is National School Breakfast Week! Breakfast is important for growing minds and bodies. FCPS’ Office of Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) has served 3.3 million breakfasts so far this year to support students with a strong, healthy start to their day. 


Six new fresh-baked breakfast options are now available. They were chosen through student feedback from our annual student food show, surveys, and focus groups. 


This week is National School Breakfast Week! School breakfasts are important for growing minds and bodies, and they give students a strong, healthy start to their day. FCPS’ Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) team provides nutritious, delicious breakfast items for about 30,000 students each and every day. This school year, they’ve provided 3.3 million breakfasts! FNS has also been hard at work incorporating student voice by choosing new menu items based on student feedback from their annual food show, surveys, and focus groups. 


This year, they’ve swapped all breakfast sandwiches from English muffins to whole grain-rich biscuits and debuted six new fresh-baked breakfast items. 


This includes:

  • freshly baked blueberry muffins
  • freshly baked biscuits (turkey sausage, turkey and cheese, and egg and cheese)
  • freshly baked breads (apple cinnamon and blueberry)


FNS has been getting great feedback on their new menu items