Dear Parents:

With current national attention being focused on children’s health and wellness issues, Bishop Carroll Food Service Department is excited to provide parents a convenient, easy and secure online prepayment service to deposit money into your child’s school meal account at any time.  This service also provides parents the ability to view your child’s account balance through a web site called MyNutrikids.com.  By having money in each child’s account prior to entering the cafeteria, we find the lunch lines move along much faster so your child has more time to eat and be with friends. 

Also, parents will have the ability to print out a copy of their child’s eating history report.  This history report will show you all dates and times that your child has purchased a breakfast and or lunch within the past thirty days. 

These new services will be available in August, 2007.  Check the website for availability. 

To access these services:

1. Simply go to the school web site at www.bcchs.org. 
2. Click on the Food Services link.
3. Click on the MyNutrikids.com link.  From this site you will create your account and add money to your child’s school meal account.  All you need is your child’s name, student ID number and school ZIP code.  The instructions listed on the back of this page will guide you through the easy online account set up process. 

Things to know:

Ø       If you have more than one child in the school, you can handle all online prepayments from the same online account. 

Ø       Payments may be made through an existing PayPal account or with a major credit or debit card only.  The minimum prepayment amount is $20.00 per prepay transaction (total sum of prepayments for all of your listed children in a single transaction).

Ø       In order to use the online prepayment service, a small convenience fee for each transaction will be assessed to cover the bank fees.  The convenience fee is $1.75 per deposit transaction.  Parents placing money into multiple meal accounts will only be assessed the $1.75 fee once per deposit transaction.  Bishop Carroll will not profit from the use of this site. 

In the near future, parents and children will also have the opportunity to access a number of nutrition education sites so that you can learn together about smart meal selections and choices, exercise and overall health and wellness, and view nutritional facts about their choices from our lunch offering. 

We are very excited to offer these new services.  However, if you choose not to take advantage of the online prepayment service you may continue to make advance payments via check, which should be made payable to the school.  Please write your child’s full name on the check memo line. 

If you have any questions about these new services, please feel free to contact my office at

269-3950.

Best Regards,

Chris Farha

Food Service Director

Registering for MyNutrikids.com

-                You will first need your child’s student ID number; you may get this number by contacting your child’s school or contacting my office.

-                Go to the school website at www.bcchs.org then click on Food Services, click on the link to MyNutrikids.com OR go to www.MyNutrikids.com.

-                Click Sign Up Now!  and enter the required information.

-                Click Finish to complete the initial registration process.

Add Students to Your Family Account

-                When you log in you will be taken to the homepage.

-                Click MyKids from the main menu OR from the blue navigation bar above.

-                This is a listing of the students in your account.  It will be empty on your first visit to the site.

-                Click Add Child and enter the required information.

-                Click Add (next to your child’s name) to continue.

-                Click Add Child to repeat the process for additional children.

How to Make a Deposit

-                Click Deposit Money located next to Add Student.

-                Enter an amount in the Deposit column next to your child’s name.

o              If you have more than one child, enter the amount you wish to deposit into the column next to each child’s name. DO NOT deposit money for your entire family into ONE child’s account.

-                Click Calculate.

-                Click Make Deposit.

-                You will be directed to the PayPal web site to enter your payment information.

o              You have the option to use your existing PayPal account or a major credit card to make your payment.

o              If you are using your PayPal account, enter your email address and PayPal password to continue.

o              If you are using a credit card, enter the required information. For your protection, MyNutrikids.com will not store your financial information.

-                Click Pay Now when finished.

-                Click Pay once again to finish the process.