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Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Recetas de Team Nutrition

¿Necesita una nueva receta para su Programa de Alimentos para el Cuidado de Niños y Adultos? 

03/14/2023
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Team Nutrition Recipes

Update your breakfast menus with these easy-to-prepare USDA standardized breakfast recipes.

03/10/2023
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0031 Revisions to Instructions for Calculation of Average Daily Attendance (FNS-418)

This memorandum announces a revision to the instructions for calculating average daily attendance on the Form FNS-418: Report of the Summer Food Service Program for Children.

SFSP09-2017
05/10/2017
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2013-0020 Variations in Meal Requirements for Religious Reasons: Jewish Schools, Institutions and Sponsors

This instruction is intended to clarify allowable variations to child nutrition program food components in order to meet religious needs among Jewish schools, institutions and sponsors. 

783-13 Rev. 3
03/27/2013
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2005-0051 FNS 113-1: Civil Rights Compliance and Enforcement

The purpose of this Instruction is to establish and convey policy and provide guidance and direction to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service and its recipients and customers, and ensure compliance with and enforcement of the prohibition against discrimination in all FNS nutrition programs and activities, whether federally funded in whole or not. 

FNS Instruction 113-1
11/08/2005
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-1997-0006 The Grains/Breads Requirement for the Food-Based Menu Planning Alternatives in the Child Nutrition Programs

This Instruction sets forth the criteria to be used to determine acceptable grains/breads, the criteria to be used to determine equivalent minimum serving sizes, and examples of foods that qualify as grains/breads for meals served under the food-based menu planning alternatives in all child nutrition programs

783-1 REV. 2
03/08/1997
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-1994-0013 Meal Substitutions for Medical or Other Special Dietary Reasons

This Instruction outlines the policy for food substitutions and other modifications in the meal patterns necessary to meet the dietary requirements of program participants with handicaps and with other special dietary needs.

783-2 REV. 2
10/14/1994
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-1992-0005 Financial Management - Summer Food Service Program for Children

This Instruction establishes standards, principles, and guidelines to assist SAs and FNSROs in the development and maintenance of financial management systems.

05/21/1992
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-1991-0011 Approval of Child Care Institutions for the Summer Food Service Program

The purpose of this Instruction is to clarify issues which have been raised in the past concerning the approval of child care institutions as sponsors for the Summer Food Service Program.

11/08/1991
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-1990-0002 Reimbursement For Recycled Milk and Other Meal Components

This Instruction sets forth the policy concerning recycling of milk and other meal components. 

FNS Instruction 786-6 Rev. 1
08/21/1990
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