USDA Foods in Schools Product Information Sheets - Vegetables
USDA Foods in Schools product information sheets with description and WBSCM ID for vegetables.
USDA Foods in Schools Foods Product Information Sheets - Meat/Meat Alternates
USDA Foods in Schools Foods product information sheets containing USDA Foods description and WBSCM ID for meat/meat alternates.
School Lunch and Breakfast Sodium Limits and Timeline
National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program sodium limits and timeline
Fact Sheet - Transitional Standards for Milk, Whole Grains and Sodium Final Rule
This new rule establishes standards for milk, whole grains, and sodium for school years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 to give schools time to transition in the short term.
Maintaining Integrity in School Meals Served Outside the Cafeteria
The tip sheet provides a list of suggested practices that program operators may adopt to assist with proper meal counting and claiming when meals are served in alternative locations.
Supply Chain Assistance for Schools
To help schools deal with supply chain challenges brought on by the pandemic, USDA is providing up to: $1 billion in Supply Chain Assistance funds for schools to purchase food for their meal programs, $300 million for states to purchase USDA Foods to distribute to schools, and $200 million for cooperative agreements to purchase local foods for schools, focusing on historically underused producers.
USDA Foods in Schools Product Information Sheets - Grains
USDA Foods in Schools product information sheets containing USDA Foods description and WBSCM ID for grains.
School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study: Methods Used to Estimate the Cost of Producing School Meals
This fact sheet summarizes the methods used in the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study (SNMCS) to collect, process, and analyze data to estimate the cost of producing reimbursable school meals. The methods were based on approaches used in prior USDA studies.
School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study: Methods Used to Examine Student Dietary Intakes
This fact sheet describes the methods used in the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study (SNMCS) to collect, process, and analyze data on students’ dietary intakes.
School Nutrition & Meal Cost Study: Methods Used to Examine Nutritional Characteristics of School Meals
This fact sheet describes the methods used in the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study (SNMCS) to collect, process, and analyze data to examine nutritional characteristics of school meals.