The Due Date on this report is December 15, 2022
The following videos will guide you through the Verification Reporting Process.
SFA Verification Collection Report - Gathering Information - https://youtu.be/-PN29wFBTUg
SFA Verification Collection Report – Report Completion
The OCTOBER ENROLLMENT COLLECTION is also now open in NDFoods.
This is an additional section at the bottom of your October SNP Claim for reimbursement for each of your sites.
These free, reduced, and total enrolment numbers should match those you will report on the Verification Collection Report.
If you use software other than PowerLunch to record meals, please ensure that student meal statuses are also updated in PowerSchool.
If you have any questions, please contact Scott Egge at 701-328-2319 or segge@nd.gov
The FY 2023 USDA NSLP Equipment Grant Applications have been sent to all school districts in North Dakota operating a federally funded school lunch program.
Applications are due by November 18th, 2022. USDA has sent $166,000 to award school food service in North Dakota. The focus of the equipment should be to provide healthier meals, address food safety issues and expand or start the School Breakfast program.
Equipment requested must be at least $1,000 – no small ware will be approved. All schools are eligible to apply however priority will be given to sites that have not been awarded an equipment grant in the past.
Only one application per school site will be accepted so please work with your team to submit the best request possible.
Please contact rhondaamundson@nd.gov with any questions related to this grant.
Inquiries have been coming in about the status of the new AJFA posters. We talked about the need to update the nondiscrimination statement on your letters, program material and websites at the Back to School workshop and also told you that new posters required to be hung in your cafeteria and/or anywhere that program benefits are made available would be ‘on the way’. Thank you for keeping that issue on your ‘to-do’ list!!
However, at this writing, no posters have been received, no news, no indication that the posters were even printed yet! Please know that we will send out news when we receive them and will let you know how distribution will happen.
Please keep the poster that you have now hung on the wall. If you need a replacement, we have a few of the old ones still available. Just email dpicnfd@nd.gov or call 701-328-2294 and we will get one coming to you.
Thank you for your patience.
7 CFR 210.8(a)(1) (A.K.A. On Site Review)
7 CFR 210 is the section of the Code of Federal Regulations where the legal description for requirements for participation in the National School Lunch program are located. Segment .8 is a checklist for the claim for reimbursement and (a)(1) specifically is about the On-site review requirement that schools/RCCI’s with more than one school site must review ‘counting and claiming system and readily observable general areas’ every year by February 1.
This checklist is required for multi-site districts but certainly would be helpful for every school, no matter the size, to review sometime as you get going in the school year. It is a good reminder of the little details that may be passed over in the rush to get food on the table’ each day. AND this is not something that just the Foodservice director should be tasked with – all staff could have ‘eyes on’ in some of the Observable General Areas to help get this form successfully completed each year.
We will walk through the form to highlight the critical areas. This Kitchen Counter Conversation should be a fairly short session unless there is a lot of discussion, comment or questions. As always, it will be recorded to view later if you can’t make it on the scheduled day.
Join at the link below on Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 from 2 to 3 p.m.
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December 2022 Kitchen Counter Conversation: Tuesday, December 20th we will discuss USDA Foods, the use of your PAL and the upcoming ‘Survey’ wishlist of commodities for the 2023-2024 school year. Tara Koster, NDDPI administrator of the USDA Foods program, will be our guest speaker. We hope this will help you understand the USDA Food system and be ready for the most important annual survey.
A recent AP news article entitled “Online school puts US kids behind.” may have school districts looking for opportunities to offer extra help to students. An afterschool program is one option. If this is a program you are contemplating or have already implemented, there is a federal meal program that can help tackle the hungry student issue – the Afterschool Snack Program (ASP).
The program reimburses schools for feeding a two-component snack sometime after the last school bell has officially rung for the day. In a high free-reduced population district, all students can participate for free while in other districts, students must be claimed by eligibility. The school district may or may decide not to charge students for the snack to cover the costs that reimbursement would not take care of.
A program agreement must be signed and approved by the State director to operate ASP. After that, there is a requirement that those operating the program be trained in civil rights and they must audit the program at least twice annually. Two snack components would be chosen from meat or meat alternate, grains, fruit and/or vegetables and milk in portions that meet the federal requirements for a snack.
This is a brief overview of the Afterschool Snack program. If you are thinking about offering extra help to students after school, please call the Child Nutrition team to discuss participation in the snack program. Contact 701-322-2294 or email dpicnfd@nd.gov
MPRO CACFP/SFSP Nutritionist Network:
The FY 2023 USDA Farm to School Grant Request for Applications (RFA) is now available here! Applications are due by 11:59pm ET on January 6th, 2023. USDA seeks to award up to $12 million to expand access to local food in eligible schools.
Schools and school districts, CACFP and Summer sponsors, Indian tribal organizations, State agencies, local agencies, non-profit organizations, and agricultural producers are encouraged to apply. Applicants may apply for grants of up to $100,000 in one of the five grant tracks. State agencies or other eligible organizations proposing projects that are multi-state or national in scope may apply for up to $500,000.
USDA will host webinars Tuesday, Nov. 8th, 2022 at 2:30pm ET and Wednesday, Nov. 9th, 2022 at 2:30pm ET to help interested applicants learn more about the RFA and how to apply. Note that these webinars will be the same, so please only sign up for one by clicking the link for the date you would like to register for.
Please contact sm.fn.farmtoschool@usda.gov with any questions related to this grant or RFA (and feel free to CC Allison (Alli) Bell at sm.fn.mpro.f2s@usda.gov).
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We hope you are proudly displaying the poster featuring sunflowers as a top product of North Dakota.
Maybe you are incorporating Sunbutter into a new recipe, such as substituting peanut butter in a Thai style recipe or offering chocolate sunbutter to go with toast, fruit and milk at breakfast. Check out some recipes on the SunButter website here: Recipes | SunButter LLC : SunButter LLC
Send us pictures of how you feature SUNFLOWER(S) during November! We would love to see them!
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To view our full listing of the 2022-2023 SY Harvest of the Month planning information, check it out HERE!
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We held an apple crunch during our weekly NDDPI meeting, with almost all 80 employees taking part!
What did you do to celebrate the MPRO Apple Crunch?
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