Best Practices, Tips & Recipes
- Recipe Sharing
- Community Safety Resources & Communication
- Additional Resources
Meal Pattern & Transitional Rule
- Innovative Menu Planning for Summer Meals
- Transitional Rule Standards Fact Sheet
- Transitional Rule Webinar for State Agencies and School Food Authorities
- Transitional Standards - The Road Ahead
- Kansas Cycle Menus
- Serving Meals to Preschoolers
Supply Chain Challenges
- Tips and Strategies for Tackling Supply Chain Disruptions
- Town Hall Best Practices to Minimize Supply Chain Challenges
Unpaid Meal Charges
- Unpaid Meal Charges - USDA Guidance and Resources
- Overcoming the Unpaid Meal Challenge
- Local Meal Charge Policy: Regulations and Reality webinar
Promoting the Completion of Free and Reduced Meal Application
- Strategies to Increase Applications for School Meals Toolkit - Food Research & Action Center
- Strategies to Maximize Completed Meal Applications During COVID-19 - No Kid Hungry
- Hunger Solutions New York - School Meal Application Toolkit
Pricing Meals and A La Carte
- Pricing Paid Student Lunches
- Paid Lunch Equity (PLE) Tool
- PLE Exemption
- PLE Waiver - Coming Soon!
- Webinar coming soon to the Trainings page
- Reduced Price Meals
- The maximum price for a reduced price lunch is 40 cents, and the maximum price for a reduced price breakfast is 30 cents (7 CFR 245.2).
- Adult Meal Pricing Worksheets and Q&A
- Pricing A La Carte and Nonprogram Foods
- The nonprogram food revenue tool can be used to ensure the pricing of nonprogram foods (such as a la carte) meets the regulations in 7 CFR 210.14(f).
- 2019 Summer Workshops webinars are available on the Trainings page.
Alternate Points of Service
Additional Program Information
COVID-19 Resources
- Grant Resources