FNS Documents & Resources

USDA Foods from Farm to Plate e-letters feature resources, news, and best practices, rotating our monthly focus between a trio of program-specific e-letters.

This guidance memo addresses sponsors’ monitoring requirements of its sites and food service operations in the SFSP. This guidance applies to sponsors’ management responsibilities of conducting initial site visits and full reviews of food service, including visits of non-congregate rural meal sites.

Guidance for state agencies to develop criteria for site selection for monitoring reviews in the Summer Food Service Program.

This memorandum provides information on the revised Prototype Application for Free and Reduced Price School Meals. USDA updated the prototype application to improve the user experience for applicants by adjusting the reading level, streamlining the application instructions, and by adding clarity to the mailing instructions to reduce the number of applications sent to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights.

Estos coloridos y atractivos boletines para padres de niños pequeños pueden ser compartidos por los proveedores de CACFP para comunicar información sobre temas populares de nutrición. Hay 15 boletines disponibles en inglés y español.

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will discontinue the requirement for vendors to use high security seals to secure USDA Foods deliveries as of July 1, 2023. 

This Summer, Eat Smart to Play Hard: A Parent’s Guide is a 6-page color brochure that schools and community groups can distribute to parents to increase awareness of the importance of healthy food choices and physical activity during the summer months. 

Este verano, aliméntate bien para jugar con ganas: guía para los padres es un folleto de 6 páginas a color que las escuelas y los grupos comunitarios pueden distribuir a los padres para aumentar la conciencia de la importancia de las opciones de alimentos saludables y la actividad física durante los meses de verano.

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

FNS has used its authority under FFRCA to waive certain onsite monitoring requirements for the school meals programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Summer Food Service Program, so that programs can to maintain program integrity and support social distancing while providing meals.