Entrées, Healthy Snacks, and our Allergen-Free options
Menu items are individually priced, so that you can order the perfect meal combination that your child will enjoy.
Entrées – Each Kidssentials entrée is well portioned and reasonably priced. We offer a wide variety of meat and vegetarian options - including chicken nuggets, burgers, pastas, rice based dishes, burritos, omelets, stews, chilis, wraps, and salads - to name but a few. Kidssentials also has a number of Halal options available.
Allergen Free options – Childhood food allergies are on the rise; to meet the needs of this special group, we offer an allergen free item on each lunch date (gluten, egg, soy, dairy, seafood and sesame free). For those students with Diabetes, Kidssentials provides the net carb count beside each entrée description.
Healthy Snacks
Available as a side option, our ‘Healthy Snacks’ may include your choice of fresh cut veggies & dip, in season fresh cut fruit, yogurt, Welch’s fruit snacks, and Kidssentials’ fresh baked cookies.
Beverages offered may include chocolate milk, 100% pure juice, and spring water.
Contact us to get a sample menu and complete list of our offerings.
Keeping it Simple!
How to Order and Payment Options
Kidssentials meals are offered by pre-order only. Ordering is available through a couple of different methods: Our online paperless system or with paper forms.
As we all move deeper into the technological age, some of us are equipped and comfortable with ordering products online and some of us need to be dragged into it kicking and screaming. Our online ordering system is easy to use and secure. So secure in fact, that we don’t even store or know your credit card number - that’s between you and the processing company. From our login screen to the finalizing of your order, we will provide you with easy-to-follow steps to guide you through the process. You have the option of paying by credit card, mailing us a cheque, or sending an email money transfer.
Just follow the steps or call Kidssentials for assistance.
While our goal is to work with schools to become ‘paperless’, using paper is unavoidable in some schools. Where needed, a form may be sent home once a term to cover the meals offered in that term. Some schools prefer that the parents print the order form off the Kidssentials or school website and then send it in. Payment options are also flexible; Parents are able to pay by monthly post-dated cheques, or pay for the whole term at one time.
Late Orders
If parents have missed the due date, not to worry; with two days’ notice, parents can either go online and place an order, or call/email us directly.
The Bottom line:
Our program is very flexible and customized to each school’s needs. If parents miss the due date, all they need to do is contact us. We are always pleased to assist them.
Eco-Friendly Initiatives – Food Packaging
Over the years, many packaging suppliers and manufacturers have approached us with alternatives to traditional single-serve food packaging. While all would claim that theirs was the best, we wanted to be sure that any new packaging we chose to use would in fact be compostable and manufactured using responsibly sourced materials and processes.
Many products were introduced to us and labeled ‘compostable’, but when evaluating the product content and manufacturing processes of these packaging options, we found that many of them just didn’t make sense.
For example, packaging made from corn: We didn’t like the idea of having something meant to feed humans and animals being rerouted to manufacture a packaging product. Just as importantly, corn is a very demanding crop stripping all the nutrients out of the soil which takes about 5 years to replenish.
While the term ‘compostable’ is widely and loosely used on a variety of products to make them more marketable (let’s face it, we all like better options), regulators such as the EPA recommend that the term ‘compostable’ not be used unless the product is currently composted in a significant amount, in the area where it is sold. This makes sense to us.
Fortunately, schools in many of the municipalities in and around the GTA, which support organic composting, have Green Bin programs in place. This allows us to now use packaging in those schools, which is helping to decrease our eco footprint.
We are very pleased to have found a line of food packaging which is manufactured using bagasse, a sugar cane fibre, which is all natural. This fibre is pressed into shape, containing no nutritional nutrients, chemicals or dyes - This product is amazing and safe.
Also cool: The cutlery we use is made from 100% birch wood, harvested from renewable forest sources. This is the same wood used in tongue depressors, popsicle sticks, and coffee stir sticks.
So now, in a growing number of our schools, the food containers our fresh-served foods are served in, and the cutlery your children are using, go right into the green bins.
While recycling is great, compostable is fantastic! This is a big step in reducing our eco footprint.
Please feel free to contact us