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FNS Documents & Resources

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Title Comment Period End Date
Generic Clearance to Conduct Formative Research or Development of Nutrition Education and Promotion Materials and Related Tools and Grants for FNS Population Groups
Proposed Information Collection Comment Request: Study Classifying and Measuring Household Food Waste
Information Collection: OMB Generic Clearance for the Annual Survey of School Food Authorities
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Resource | Webinars/Videos CACFP Trainer’s Tools: Feeding Infants - Identifying Signs of Hunger and Fullness

This video is from Lesson 2 of the CACFP Trainer’s Tools: Feeding Infants kit. It helps child care providers learn to identify and respond to a baby’s hunger and fullness signs.

11/18/2019
Resource | Webinars/Videos CACFP Trainer’s Tools: Feeding Infants - Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers in a Child Care Site

This video is from Lesson 3 of the CACFP Trainer’s Tools: Feeding Infants kit  It contains suggestions for creating a breastfeeding-friendly environment, best practices parents can follow for labeling and transporting breastmilk to a child care site, and it introduces the Breastfed Babies Welcome Here! A Mother’s Guide as a resource for breastfeeding mothers.

11/18/2019
Resource | Webinars/Videos CACFP Trainer’s Tools: Feeding Infants - Handling and Storing Breastmilk and Infant Formula in a Child Care Site

This video is from Lesson 4 of the CACFP Trainer’s Tools: Feeding Infants kit. It describes best practices for handling and storing breastmilk and infant formula at a child care site.

11/18/2019
Resource | Webinars/Videos CACFP Trainer’s Tools: Feeding Infants - Developmental Readiness for Solid Foods

This video is from Lesson 7 of the CACFP Trainer’s Tools: Feeding Infants kit. It helps child care providers know when a baby is developmentally ready for solid foods.

11/13/2019
Resource | Policy Salad Bars in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program

This memorandum supersedes policy memo SP 31-2013, “Salad Bars in the National School Lunch Program,” dated March 27, 2013. This revision includes policy changes and general updates to outdated resources/website links and updated questions and answers.

09/23/2019
Resource | Policy Smoothies Offered in the Child Nutrition Programs

This memorandum clarifies juice and yogurt allowances based on the child care and preschool meal pattern updates and incorporates the meal pattern flexibilities related to flavored milk. The flavored milk flexibilities apply to the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Special Milk Program for Children effective beginning in school year 2019-2020.

09/23/2019
Resource | Guidance Documents SNAP FY 2020 Federal Target Management Evaluations

FNS is targeting the SNAP Management Evaluations for Fiscal Year 2020.

08/30/2019
Resource | Guidance Documents SNAP FY 2020 State Management Evaluation Target Areas

FNS is targeting the areas of program operation listed in the table below for state SNAP Agency Management Evaluations for the upcoming fiscal year.

07/11/2019
Resource | Training and Outreach The Great Garden Detective Adventure: A Standards-Based Gardening Nutrition Curriculum for Grades 3 and 4

This eleven-lesson curriculum for 3rd and 4th grades includes bulletin board materials, veggie dice, fruit and vegetable flash cards, and ten issues of Garden Detective News for parents/caregivers.

06/26/2019
Resource | Training and Outreach Fueling My Life Decal Set

This set of five colorful decals for secondary schools help promote healthy choices at meals.

06/12/2019
Page updated: October 14, 2021