SIPI Reflection

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On Friday, February 10, 2017, I became concerned about meals being served at the SIPI Head Start site because Moses and I were talking and he told me that SIPI had not put an order in. I found this particularly concerning since he had covered one day and had a difficult time putting together the meal. Food items were not available for the preparation of the meal, some of the food items on hand were outdated, and many had to be discarded. Since a food order had not been placed and lunch required fresh produce, I became curious about lunch for today. I arrived at 11:35 am and the children were almost finished with their meal, which I found rather unusual since lunch was at 11:30 am. The lunch served followed the menu, Mexican Pizza with refried beans and mozzarella cheese, shredded lettuce, tomato salsa and apple wedges. My concern was the quality and handling of the food products. When I arrived in the classroom the romaine lettuce had strong smell, at first I wasn’t sure what it was. When I went into the walk-in area and saw the case with the spoiled romaine lettuce leaves that had been torn off and left in the case I knew immediately what the smell was. I could not believe the lettuce was served to the children. Along with the spoiled lettuce …show more content…

An opened bag of potato chips was left on top. The hood above the range had lent dangling from the edges, evidence that it had not been cleaned in quite a while. According to policy, Hood and hood filters are to be cleaned on a weekly basis. The regular dishware was sitting on the table, with the eating surface side-up, while the children ate their meal on disposable dishware. No approval had been given and there was no acceptable reason for use of disposable. Debris was found at the bottom of both the reach-in refrigerator and the reach-in freezer. There was an ice tray in the freezer that was

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