FNS Documents & Resources

This study describes some of the choices state agencies made as they exercised the flexibility offered during the implementation and describes the resulting food packages.

School food service programs such as we have in 1971 did not just happen over-night nor even during the past decade. Preceding today's programs is a long history of more than a hundred years of development, of testing and evaluating, and of constant research to provide the best in nutrition, nutrition education, and food service for the nation's millions of children in school.