USDA Food Buying Guide Mobile App
Just released ‒ The USDA Food Buying Guide Mobile App! The Food Buying Guide (FBG) is the essential resource for food yield information for all Child Nutrition Programs (CNP). The FBG assists CNP operators, food manufacturers, and other stakeholders with:
- Purchasing the correct amounts of foods for Child Nutrition Programs.
- Determining the contribution that each food makes toward meal pattern requirements.
With the mobile app, you can search and locate yield information for foods typically served in Child Nutrition Programs, compare yield information to determine the foods that best meet your program needs, create a favorites food list and email/print results.
The USDA Food Buying Guide Mobile App is currently available on the Apple App Store. An Android version is in development.
Tuesdays @ 2
Webinars
A variety of topics will be offered during this year’s
Tuesdays @ 2 webinar series. All webinars begin at 2 p.m. and will be 30-60
minutes in length, unless otherwise noted. Registration and session information
will be posted on the Training: School Nutrition
Programs webpage.
Upcoming Webinars
February 6 ‒ Is the Community Eligibility Option Right for You?
The Community
Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows high-need schools to serve breakfast and
lunch at no charge to all students using simplified meal counting and claiming
procedures. To be eligible, schools or groups of schools must serve a high
percentage of directly certified students or other students who are
categorically eligible for free meals. Join this session to learn more about
the eligibility requirements, what to consider when assessing if CEP would be
beneficial for your school(s), and how to apply.
Registration ‒ Community Eligibility Provision
February 13 ‒ Summer Food Service Opportunities for School Nutrition
Programs
Join MDE’S Summer Food Service coordinator,
to learn how you can provide meals at no charge to students during the summer.
Registration ‒
Summer Food Service Opportunities for School Nutrition Programs
February 20 ‒ Dialogue
with Deb
Join Deb Lukkonen, supervisor for School
Nutrition Programs, for an update on school nutrition in Minnesota.
Registration
‒ Dialogue with Deb
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