FNS Documents & Resources

USDA Foods in Schools Product Information Sheets containing USDA Foods description and WBSCM ID for grains. 

USDA Foods in Schools Product Information Sheets with description and WBSCM ID for vegetables. 

Meal pattern chart for the School Breakfast Program

USDA Foods in Schools Product Information Sheets containing USDA Foods description and WBSCM ID for other foods. 

USDA Foods Product Information Sheets containing USDA Foods description and WBSCM ID for fruits. 

In January 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), responding to requests from local school food service professionals, will publish a proposed rule to provide flexibilities that will better enable schools to serve nutritious foods children will be eager to eat while also increasing program effeciency and integrity.

National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program sodium limits and timeline

USDA Foods in Schools Foods Product Information Sheets containing USDA Foods description and WBSCM ID for meat/meat alternates. 

A resource for school meals program operators on the Buy American Provision. This provision safeguards the health and well-being of our Nation’s children and supports the U.S. economy, American farmers, and small and local agricultural businesses. The National School Lunch Act requires school food authorities (SFAs) to purchase, to the maximum extent practicable, domestic commodities or products.

The School Breakfast Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It began as a pilot project in 1966, and was made permanent in 1975. The School Breakfast Program is administered at the Federal level by the Food and Nutrition Service. At the state level, the program is usually administered by state education agencies, which operate the program through agreements with local school food authorities in more than 78,000 schools and institutions.