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Find resources to support this federally assisted meal program operating in more than 99,800 public and non-profit private schools and residential child care institutions.
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Find materials in the NAL collection related to School Lunch. For information on borrowing materials, please see the NAL Web site.
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National School Lunch Program
USDA. Food and Nutrition Service.
Includes a program fact sheet, history, eligibility information, reimbursement rates, guidance materials, regulations, reports, and presentations.
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National School Lunch Program
Food Research and Action Center.
Gives facts and history of the program, as well as resources associated with eligibility and reimbursement.
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Menu Planner for Healthy School Meals
USDA. FNS. Team Nutrition.
This brochure translates the concepts of the School Meals Initiative for Healthy Children into a useable format and presents various options available to school nutrition personnel to meet nutrition goals, criteria for reimbursable meals, and meal structures for both breakfast and lunch.
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Offer Versus Serve Manual
USDA. FNS. Team Nutrition.
Offer versus Serve is a training manual for school districts to use with their schools. It contains training packets for traditional food-based, enhanced food-based, and nutrient standard menu planning. It also contains a resource pack with a reference guide, a CD of print materials, and a film overview of each menu-planning option in VHS and DVD formats.
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Child Nutrition Labeling Program
USDA. Food and Nutrition Service.
This voluntary Federal program evaluates manufactured product formulations to confirm the contribution they make toward meal pattern requirements. Manufacturers are able to state this contribution on their labels and are protected against audit claims for purchasers of Child Nutrition labeled products.
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Black and White Historic School Lunch PhotoGallery of the Open Frontier
University of Nebraska Press.
Digital image library of photos, paintings, and drawings that pertain to the history of the American West. Included in this collection are several early photos of children building school gardens and eating lunch at school. The images themselves are in the public domain.
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