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The dining hall serves 19 meals each week during the school year. Monday through Friday, resident students eat breakfast at 7 AM. Cereal, oatmeal, bagels, toast, and eggs are available each morning. Other selections typically include bacon or sausage, waffles, pancakes, hash browns and biscuits and gravy. On weekends brunch is served and very often omelets will be made to order and other items such as chicken wings will be on the menu. Fruit is a staple item at breakfast as well to ensure students the opportunity to have a balanced meal. Drink choices include milk, juice, water, soft drinks and coffee.
Lunch during the week is also varied. A large salad bar complete with refrigeration and heating coils allows for a variety of fresh salad items as well as soups to be served daily. It is typical to see chicken salad, egg salad and tuna salad on the salad bar along with fruit, cottage cheese and salad toppings. The soups are very often home made and have included such favorites as tomato basil, vegetable beef, chicken noodle, and clam chowder. In addition to the availability of the salad bar each day, hot items are prepared. Fish, chicken, pizza, lasagna, spaghetti and hamburgers are among the meals that may be served during lunch. Along with these, vegetables, a variety of potato and often bread are made available as well. And peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are available each day. Drink choices include milk, juice, water, and soft drinks.
Dinner is also a time when a hot meal is served. Along with dinner, salad items are available and a dessert is prepared. Several times during the course of the year special dinners are prepared. These include holiday dinners just prior to closing for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, as well as events such as the athletic banquet in the spring. In the spring there is an annual BBQ during which time faculty, staff, and students dine on hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken and ribs cooked on an outdoor grill.
The dining hall staff enjoys decorating for holidays to give our students a feeling of home. They enjoy hearing from students about the cuisine in their countries and have on occasion tried to prepare one of the meals for dinner. The dining hall at Montverde Academy is not just a place to eat, but a place to dine with friends, faculty, and staff while enjoying some social time. |
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