FNS Documents & Resources

USDA Foods from Farm to Plate e-letters feature resources, news, and best practices, rotating our monthly focus between a trio of program-specific e-letters.

Broad-based categorical eligibility is a policy that makes most households categorically eligible for SNAP because they qualify for a non-cash TANF or state maintenance of effort funded benefit.

The Dirt is the Patrick Leahy Farm to School program monthly e-newsletter with updates, webinar info, relevant news, and field notes. 

Three newsletters have been added to the existing collection of Nibbles for Health: Nutrition Newsletters for Parent of Young Children on the topics of added sugars, sodium, and family meals.

Estos coloridos y atractivos boletines para padres de niños pequeños pueden ser compartidos por los proveedores de CACFP para comunicar información sobre temas populares de nutrición. Hay 15 boletines disponibles en inglés y español.

The Meats/Meat Alternates Tip Sheet is designed for program operators as a handy and easy-to-use reference on how to credit meats/meat alternates and incorporate them into the meal pattern requirements.

Project summaries for the 28 TEFAP state agencies that received fiscal year 2023 Farm to Food Bank project funding.

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

The tip sheet provides a list of suggested practices that program operators may adopt to assist with proper meal counting and claiming when meals are served in alternative locations.

To help those most in need receive healthy, fresh foods, USDA will be offering boxes of pre-packed, mixed fresh produce though The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), in addition to the single varieties that are already available to order.