Food Services Department
For inquiries to the Food Services Director during the school year,
please contact: Laurie Szyarto at [email protected].
Rocio Ruiz-Johnson
Free & Reduced Lunch Applications for the 2023-2024 School Year is available ONLINE HERE.
If you prefer to fill out the paper application, you may find it here. This folder contains all of the information regarding applying for Free/Reduced Lunch. If you can not print it, please contact your child's school and they will send a paper copy home for you.
Please note, you will need your child's school ID Number. You may find the number in your family genesis portal. If you do not know how to log into your student's Genesis portal, please contact your child's school and they will assist you.
Please send any paper applications to:
Ali McKee
Freehold Township Schools
Benefits Coordinator
384 W. Main Street
Freehold, NJ 07728
You may also send by email or fax:
Fax: (732) 462-5939
You may email any questions to Ali McKee at [email protected] or call her at (732) 462-8400 ext.8809.
Summer EBT information for district families
District students who are approved for Federal Free or Reduced Lunch in the 2023-2024 school year will receive $120 in Summer EBT funds in the form of a physical EBT card from the State of NJ. If you have not applied for F/R lunch yet and think you may be eligible, please click here to apply. This is a new, permanent, program aimed to reduce childhood hunger by providing families with a grocery benefit to feed their children while on summer break.
Please check out the program we'll be using to share our menus and nutritional information with you. Nutrislice will be updated any time we have a menu change and will have menus prepared weeks in advance. You can even add the app to your phone for up to date information. Click here to learn how to filter your menus!
MealTime Information
To add funds to your student's MealTime account so they may purchase items in the school cafeteria, please click here (white box) or send cash or a check written out to Freehold Township Schools in with your student. All funds submitted in the cafeteria will be deposited into your student's Mealtime account. No change will be available in the cafeteria. For more information about Mealtime, please click here.
For questions about account balances please contact Laurie Szyarto at [email protected].
And more food facts may be found here.
For additional information, please contact the district contacts at Sodexo Food Services.
Rocio Ruiz-Johnson, Sodexo Food Director, may be reached at (732)462-8400 x8870 or x8871.
For information pertaining to ingredient labels please contact Sodexo at (732) 462-8400, ext.8870 or ext.8871.
Policies and additional information pertaining to our Food Services Department can be found here.
Click here for the Sodexo Ingredient Disclaimer
The district may not know the exact ingredients used in the preparation of food and beverage items served within the school lunch program and/or by parent and school organizations. Every effort is made to instruct our food production staff on the severity of food allergies. In accordance with the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act, the major allergen ingredients of milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soybeans, wheat, and shellfish are to be identified on food labels. However, food manufactures are not required to declare these same allergenic ingredients which may be introduced through cross contact. Cross contact/contamination may occur during harvesting, transportation, manufacturing, processing, and storage.
While these ingredient lists are available, there is no guarantee of the absence of these major food allergens. In addition, based upon vendor availability, food products may be substituted with similar brands without notice. The parent/guardian of a student with anaphylaxis to food is responsible for their child’s purchase and consumption of any food product sold or provided by the school and needs to be aware of the potential hazards associated with the consumption of food not provided from the home.