Choose Your Breakfast Menu

Did you know CKC Good Food offers multiple breakfast menu templates from which our client partners can choose? Which menu is right for your program depends on several factors, including:

• Onsite Refrigeration
• Cooking Capabilities
• Service Style
• Staffing

Each menu is filled with a variety of foods that have widespread appeal, particularly with young people. The items are also chosen based on ease of preparation and service, as we know many sites operate with fewer staff or volunteers during breakfast service.

Hot Breakfast

By far, everyone most prefers our hot breakfast menu. It's filled with individually wrapped, cook-and-serve items such as: egg & cheese croissant sandwich, mozzarella pinwheel, three-cheese quesadilla (coming soon!), pancake puffs and breakfast burritos.

Hot breakfast service requires your site to have both refrigeration and cooking capabilities. It lends itself best to cafeteria-served breakfast or grab-and-go from the cafeteria.

Cold Breakfast with Protein

This menu allows sites without cooking capabilities to offer a cold protein paired with a one-ounce grain item. As examples, menu days include granola bites and yogurt cup, bagel and cream cheese, whole-grain muffin and hard-boiled egg, and assorted cereal bar and string cheese. The protein items require refrigeration, which can be a limiting factor for some sites. 

To simplify service, sites can use dish tubs to hold each of the components required for a reimbursable breakfast: fruit, grain, protein, milk and a second fruit options. Under Offer vs. Serve, eaters need to take three of the five components, one of which must be fruit.

This menu lends itself best to grab-and-go from the cafeteria, where you can best keep the cold protein items at safe temperatures. If you put your milk and cold protein items in a cooler, you could place your grab-and-go stations near entrances to increase your breakfast participation.

Cold Pre-Assembled Breakfast Bags

Our client partners most often choose to offer our cold breakfast menu for its ease of service. It provides the 2-ounce grain and fruit components of a reimbursable meal in individual, pre-assembled bags for each eater. Pair the breakfast bag with milk and an optional second fruit to provide the required components from which your eaters can choose under Offer vs. Serve. We offer cold breakfast menus with and without cereal.

Our pre-assembled breakfast bags are great for grab-and-go service near entrances or even breakfast-in-the-classroom.

If you'd like to explore a new menu possibility for your program, contact Ambika Senthilvel.

New Breakfast Foods

We have many new foods coming soon to our various school breakfast menus in the next few weeks. Manufacturers have introduced lots of tasty options that will inspire joyful eaters ... especially kids!

Watch for some of these items, depending on the menu served at your site:

• Breakfast pizzas (two varieties)
• Choco crisp Belgian waffles
• Cinnamon Chex cereal
• Vanilla boli
• Three-cheese quesadilla
• French toast snackbread

All our menu items comply with the nutritional guidelines for federal nutrition programs, including the School Breakfast Program. These new items are all comprised of at least 51% whole grains and fall below the nutritional guidelines' limits for calories and fat. Equally important, these foods will inspire joyful eaters and give them fuel to focus during class.