USDA Guidance Policies
- National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program
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- National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Questions and Answers for Charter Schools - SP-03-2019
- Adult Meals, Pricing of, in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
- Beverage and Snack Contracts, Exclusive
- Buy American Provision - SP-24-2016: Compliance with and Enforcement of the Buy American Provision in the National School Lunch Program
- Construction of School Lunch Facilities
- Denying Meals and Milk to Children, Prohibition Against as Disciplinary Measure
- Dietary Guideline Fact Sheet - Fruit
- Dietary Guideline Fact Sheet - Grains
- Dietary Guideline Fact Sheet - Milk
- Dietary Guideline Fact Sheet - Meeting the Challenge of Rising Food Costs
- Dietary Guideline Fact Sheet - Vegetables
- Ensuring Access to Free and Reduced Price School Meals for Low-Income Students - SP-43-2016
- Food Management Company; Contract Procedures
- Grain-Fruit Products, Listing of Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) Approved Formulated Products
- Guidance on Prohibition of Separation by Gender during Child Nutrition Program Meal Service - SP-31-2015
- Hamburger, USDA Advises Using a Thermometer
- Meal Pattern Information
- Meal Tickets; Handling Lost, Stolen and Misused
- Plastic Cards; Lost and Stolen Ticket Policy
- Salad Bars in the National School Lunch Program
- Use of Share Tables in Child Nutrition Programs - SP-41-2016
- Use of Vending Machines in School Meal Programs
- Use of Vending Machines in School Meal Programs Questions and Answers
- Vegetable Protein Products, Implementation Guidance on the Modifications and Use in the School Meals Programs
- Unpaid Meal Charge Guidance
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Unpaid Meal Charges
- USDA Resources
- Overcoming the Unpaid Meal Challenge: Proven Strategies from Our Nation's Schools - 2017 Edition SP-29-2017
- Managing the Problem of Meal Debt
- Unpaid Meal Charges: Guidance and Q&A - Updated 3/23/17 - SP-23-2017
- Unpaid Meal Charges: Clarification on Collection of Delinquent Meal Payments - SP-47-2016
- Unpaid Meal Charges: Local Meal Charge Policies - SP-46-2016
- Accommodating Children with Special Dietary Needs
- Afterschool Snack Program (ASP)
- Donated Foods
- Eligibility Memos
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- Exclusion of Military Combat Pay
- Extending Categorical Eligibility to Additional Children in a Household
- Free & Reduced Price Meal Eligibility Information Released - Limited Disclosure Policy
- Head Start Eligibility
- Homeless Children in the National School Lunch Program
- Questions and Answers on Extending Categorical Eligibility to Additional Children in a Household