Celebrations
Celebrations 🎉
February & March 2026
Sinton ISD Food Service celebrated a series of vibrant student events this spring, beginning with a festive Valentine’s Day meal on February 13th and continuing through the 2026 Health Fair on March 2nd, where the district showcased its back-to-back TDA "Cream of the Crop" awards and Texas-grown produce. The festivities concluded with National School Breakfast Week from March 2nd–6th, featuring a medieval "Quest for School Breakfast" theme with staff serving royal-themed meals like "Dragon Scale" pizza to fuel students for their academic journeys.
"Fall" in Love with Local (October 20, 2025)
Sinton ISD Food Service hosted a "Fall in Love with Local" event at Sinton Elementary on October 20th, highlighting Texas-grown products and local farmers.
The event featured KMAZ Livestock from Taft, educating students on the diverse uses of pigs, and Klarisa Posada with Labatt Produce, offering tastings of local Texas pears and green beans.
Charles Ring from Ring Brother's Farm in St Paul showcased home-grown corn, milled locally and sold as H-E-B's Azteca Brand.
HART Ambassadors Sydney Trevino and Olivia Zapata helped pack goodie bags with Texas cool tropics juice, apple cinnamon empanadas, and birthday cake graham crackers.
Cafeteria Chronicles - HMI
Check out the Sinton ISD Food Service department's award-winning initiatives! Our team was recently featured in HMI’s Cafetria Chronicles for bringing fresh, local foods and innovative nutrition education to our students. Read about our "Food Fusion Fridays" and community events that earned us multiple Healthy Meals Incentives awards.
Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2025)
Sinton ISD Food Service celebrates Valentine’s Day by showing love through food!
National School Breakfast Week (March 3-8, 2024)
Sinton ISD Food Service Celebrates National Nutrition Month and National School Breakfast Week.
Theme: Surf's Up with School Breakfast
Menu items: Banana Dolphins, Mermaid Tails Under the Sea, Sea Star Pineapple Cups
Mermaid Tails Under the Sea (fresh strawberries with blueberries)
Sea Star Fruit Cups (made with pineapple bits topped with star fruit)
Banana Dolphins (bananas with fresh blueberries)
Mermaid Tails Under the Sea (fresh strawberries with blueberries)
SHS HEALTH FAIR (March 4, 2024)
The Sinton ISD Food Service department participated in the annual health fair.
The food service program partnered with a popular K12 industry chef, Chef Mamma Chang from Chef's Corner to conduct a live cooking demonstration, provide delicious samples and provide nutrition education on healthy meals. Samples included; Teriyaki Chicken, Fried Rice, Stir Fry Chicken with Stir Fry Veggies, Steamed Veggie Rice, Watermelon Radish Salad, Egg Rolls, Fortune Cookies, Texas Luau Slush, Farm to School Crackers. Local foods used included; Watermelon radishes (McAllen, Texas) and True Harvest Crisp Lettuce (Belton, Texas). Our "Lettuce Grow" was on display, showcasing hydroponically grown lettuce. This event was made possible through our Health Meals Initiative (HMI) grant and Local Foods in Schools (LFS) Grant.
