Offer Versus Serve and Family Style Meals in the Child and Adult Care Food Program
This memorandum outlines the use of offer versus serve in the adult day care and at-risk afterschool settings in the Child and Adult Care Food Program and the use of family style meals in the CACFP.
Grain Requirements in the CACFP: Q&As
This memorandum explains the grain requirements for the CACFP. It also includes Questions and Answers in attachment 2.
Clarifications: Funding Levels for FY 2017 CACFP Audit Fund Allocation
This memorandum provides clarification of the procedures for state agencies requesting additional fiscal year 2017 Child and Adult Care Food Program audit funding.
Final Rule: Administrative Reviews in the School Nutrition Programs
This final rule revises the state agency's administrative review process in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program to establish a unified accountability system designed to ensure that school food authorities offering school meals comply with program requirements.
Final Rule: National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
This rule adopts as final, with some modifications, the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program regulations set forth in the interim final rule published in the Federal Register on June 28, 2013. The requirements addressed in this rule conform to the provisions in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 regarding nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools, other than food sold under the lunch and breakfast programs.
Final Rule: Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
This final rule establishes requirements for state agencies, local educational agencies, and schools operating the Community Eligibility Provision, a reimbursement option that allows the service of school meals to all children at no-cost in high poverty schools without collecting household applications.
Using Federal Funds to Support FoodCorps Service Members
This memorandum clarifies how state agencies and school food authorities can use federal funds to support FoodCorps service members.
Optional Best Practices to Further Improve Nutrition in the CACFP
This memorandum outlines best practices and resources to help centers and day care homes implement best practices for updating the meal requirements for the CACFP.
Comment Request - Food Program Reporting System (FPRS)
This legislation directs USDA to carry out annual national performance assessments of the School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Programs.
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
The CEP Characteristics Study will include surveys of nationally representative samples of participating and eligible non-participating LEAs to obtain updated information on the characteristics of participating and non-participating districts and schools.