FNS Documents & Resources

School nutrition professionals continue to make school meals the healthiest meals children eat in a day! To take school meals to the next level, USDA is updating the school nutrition standards after considering recommendations from the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans and listening to a diverse range of voices with experience in child nutrition and health.

The CEP resource center provides extensive resources for parents, teachers, and school officials at the local, state and Federal level to better understand CEP and its positive benefits, along with useful tools to help facilitate successful implementation of the provision in your school!

These questions and answers provide guidance for recently published transitional standards for milk, whole grains and sodium.

These questions and answers provide guidance for recently published transitional standards for milk, whole grains and sodium.

National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program sodium limits and timeline

Meal pattern chart for the School Breakfast Program

Meal pattern chart for the National School Lunch Program

A webinar overview on the Transitional Standards for Milk, Sodium, and Whole Grains for Industry Partners. 

FNS issued eight child nutrition programs off-site monitoring fact sheets to assist states and sponsors in conducting off-site monitoring of child nutrition programs during the pandemic. These documents include a fact sheet that has background information on all programs, as well as separate facts sheets for state and local operators for each program.

The National School Lunch Program regulations at § 210.18   Administrative reviews specify the requirements for conducting Administrative Reviews. The documents on this page include the Administrative Review Manual and other documents and tools available for conducting these compliance reviews.