FNS Documents & Resources

Showing students why eating a healthy breakfast is important, and providing quick, easy, and budget-friendly breakfast ideas.

The CACFP Trainers’ Circle: Coaching and Mentoring Using a Peer-to-Peer Model will feature effective training strategies used by the Kansas State Department of Education and resources from the Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN).

The CACFP Trainers’ Circle: Coaching and Mentoring Using a Peer-to-Peer Model will feature effective training strategies used by the Kansas State Department of Education and resources from the Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN).

This webinar discusses how to encourage variety in the CSFP Food Package and how to structure and operate your CSFP program to provide the greatest benefit to your clients. 

This webinar will focus on how CACFP operators can identify grain-based desserts, and use this knowledge to plan menus that meet program requirements.

This report responds to the requirement of PL 110-246 to assess the effectiveness of state and local efforts to directly certify children for free school meals.

The SNAP E&T pilot projects give Congress, USDA, and states the opportunity to test innovative strategies and approaches that connect low-income households to good paying jobs and thereby reduce their reliance on public assistance.

This webinar will focus on how CACFP operators can use a food’s ingredient list to identify whole grain-rich items for their menus. 

The biennial WIC Participant and Program Characteristics Report describes a census of all participants in WIC. The most recent report (PC 2016) reflects state management information systems data from April 2016, and this Food Package Report is a supplemental analysis of that data. While PC 2016 summarizes participant characteristics, this report summarizes the food packages, or prescriptions, that state agencies issued to these participants.

This report supplements FNS administrative data on food package costs by estimating the average monthly food costs for each WIC participant category and food package type. It also estimates total pre- and post-rebate dollars spent on 17 major categories of WIC-eligible foods in FY 2014. This report is an update to the previous WIC Food Package Cost Report for FY 2010.