K-12 School Program

Restaurant Quality Tomato Products with Commodity Discounts

New Red Gold Options for Commodity Processing and A245 Tomato Paste Totes

Learn more about our easy, USDA Commodity Processing Program options with the new Commodity Code A245, for tomato paste totes. You’ll love the fact that you can now divert commodity totes of tomato paste to receive high quality commercial tomato products that students love. Your totes can be converted to Marinara Sauce, Spaghetti Sauce, Fully Prepared Pizza Sauce, Salsa, Sloppy Joe Sauce, Tomato Ketchup and many other items from your local commercial distributor via Indirect Sales Discount ("Net Off Invoice”), Direct Discount or Fee for Service (in selected areas).

Click here for a list of available tomato products.

Offer your students menu consistency by serving superior quality commercial tomato products all year long. No need to order USDA “brown box” tomato products for part of the school year and then have to switch to commercial products for the rest of the year …now your schools can receive the SAME restaurant quality products all year long!

Click here for nutritional breakdown of all available products.

RECEIVE FREE POSTERS for your entire school district                         - Limited Time Offer

It's easy to earn FREE 24" x 18" posters! Simply commit your school district to menu one of these products below, a minimum of 4 times during the school year.  Eligible 6/#10 cans of school products are:

  • Redpack Nutritionally Enhanced Spaghetti Sauce (72940-82107)
  • Redpack Spaghetti Sauce (72940-82100)
  • Redpack Marinara Sauce (72940-82200)
  • Red Gold Salsa (Mild) (72940-11005)

There are three ways to request posters:

  • USPS (mail): Click here to see a sample poster and to download the order form.  Complete form and mail away to order your free posters!  See form for full offer details and restrictions.  Allow 4-6 weeks for processing and shipment.
  • Online: Click here to order posters online.
  • By Phone: Call 1-888-733-7225 Extension 46 and request the posters to be mailed.

Click here if you have immediate questions or would like our Red Gold School Commodity Specialist to contact you directly.

Click here to see a copy of our school ad running in the official publication of the School Nutrition Association magazine, School Foodservice and Nutrition.