🌽USDA Food Update 🌽

North Dakota Department of Public Instruction sent this bulletin at 01/04/2022 09:10 AM CST

USDA School Foods Update

January 4, 2022

Supply and Demand

We are still experiencing supply and demand issues. There are supply issues and cost increases nationwide due to labor shortages, transportation, and material shortages. I will be sending Food Updates bi-weekly or monthly depending on shortage information via the USDA School Foods Update.

Food Updates

Any updates from the last USDA Food Update are in Bold. Food updates are as of January 3, 2022, and may change.

USDA Brown Box

111100 - Cereal Oat Bowls - 1/15/2021 - USDA Cancelled due to lack of bids
100300 - Tomato Salsa -delivery date 10/15/2021 - USDA Cancelled due to product shortfalls
Applesauce Cups - USDA Cancelled due to product shortfalls
100158 Ground Beef - Most schools were cut their ground beef on their January order. I receive ground beef the second half of January & February for February and March orders

JTM – Beef Products

February Orders - All Products Available

Schwan's – Pizza Products

February Shortages

All cases of 63916 - IW Turkey Sausage Pizza
All cases of 55290 - Big Daddys Stuffed Sandwich
All cases of 78314 - IW 5" Deep Dish Pizza
All cases of 72671 - Tonys French Bread Pizza
All cases of 78353 - Tonys Bacon Scramble
All cases of 78364 - Tonys Galaxy 4" Cheese Pizza
All cases of 78697 - Tonys 4x6 Cheese Pizza

Pilgrims Pride – Chicken Products

Price increase on products - Price increase will start in December
February Orders - All Products Available

Tyson - Chicken Products

February Shortages:

All cases of 10037310928 - Chicken Patties
All cases of 10703440928 - Hot & Spicy Chicken Tenders
All cases of 10703740928 - Hot & Spicy Chicken Nuggets

Cargill – Egg Products

February Shortages:
- All cases of 40176 - Colby Cheese Omelet
  - The colby cheese omelet will not be available for the remainder of the school year

Asian Food Solutions (New Manufacturer) - Asian Chicken Product

All Asian Food Solutions products have been cancelled

The April food survey is posted- Survey is available January 4 - January 16. Before filling out the April survey please look at your February and March orders in ND Foods to help you plan for the April survey. You can access orders in NDFOODS

The SCH renewal will be coming out in January – Sponsors must complete the renewal. During the renewal, a sponsor will: Update sponsor details, Individual details, site details, opt-in or out of the USDA DOD fresh program. More detailed information to come by email in January.

The pre-Annual Food Survey will be coming out the week of January 3. The survey allows schools to choose their food preferences from the entire USDA food catalog. The survey helps narrow down the USDA food choices before the annual survey. The pre-survey link will be emailed.

ND Foods Allowance Notifications

If you receive an allowance email from ND Foods, there was a change in your allowances. No action is needed; the message is just a notification.

Sponsors receive two types of allowances each year for USDA foods Entitlement (brown box) funds and state match funds.

Entitlement Funds – Funds districts receive to purchase USDA foods for the school lunch program. Entitlement funds are based on the previous total lunches served. Total lunches served times the current USDA per meal rate.
State Match Funds - State Match funds are allocated each school year. Each school receives a percentage of the funds based on their previous year’s average daily participation. State Match funds are used to pay for the storage and delivery of USDA foods. As the funds become low or depleted, NDFoods sends emails to school representatives as a notification. No action needs to be taken. It is simply a way to notify school representatives that any future warehouse and transportation fees will be invoiced to the school once the funds are gone.

To view your allowances (entitlement & state match), log into ND Foods. Look under: Sponsor Profile – School USDA Foods (SCH).

Contact Information

For all USDA School Food Distribution inquiries please contact:

Tara Koster - tkoster@nd.gov

NDDPI Child Nutrition and Food Distribution
Main Office:
600 E. Boulevard Ave, Dept 201
Bismarck, ND 58505
PHONE: 701-328-2294 or 888-338-3663
FAX: 701-328-9566
Email: dpicnfd@nd.gov

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