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ResetResource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0159
    Nationwide Waiver to Allow Offer Versus Serve Flexibilities in the SFSP – Extension
        This waiver extends the Nationwide Waiver to Allow Offer Versus Serve Flexibilities in the SFSP  through Dec. 31, 2020, in conjunction with the Nationwide Waiver to Allow Summer Food Service Program and Seamless Summer Option Operations through December 2020.
          COVID-19: Child Nutrition Response #51
    08/31/2020
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0107
    Nationwide Waiver to Allow Offer Versus Serve Flexibilities in the Summer Food Service Program
        During the public health emergency due to COVID-19, FNS waives, for all states, requirements that limit the use of Offer versus Serve to school food authorities and require sponsors to apply OVS under the rules followed for the National School Lunch Program.
          COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #16
    07/02/2020
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0097
    Nationwide Waiver to Allow Offer Versus Serve Flexibility for Senior High Schools in the NSLP for SY 2020–21
        FNS is establishing a nationwide waiver to support access to nutritious meals while minimizing potential exposure to the novel coronavirus for school year 2020-21.
          COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #37
    06/25/2020
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2018-0038
    Summer Food Service Program Memoranda Rescission
        The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance for state agencies and program operators on the status of nationwide waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements in the Summer Food Service Program.
          SFSP01-2019
    10/11/2018
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0094
    Offer Versus Serve and Family Style Meals in the Child and Adult Care Food Program
        This memorandum outlines the use of offer versus serve in the adult day care and at-risk afterschool settings in the Child and Adult Care Food Program and the use of family style meals in the CACFP.
          CACFP05-2017
    12/09/2016
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2015-0033
    Updated Offer vs Serve Guidance for the NSLP and SBP Beginning SY2015-16
        Offer versus Serve is a provision in the NSLP and School Breakfast Program that allows students to decline some of the food offered. The goals of OVS are to reduce food waste in the school meals programs while permitting students to decline foods they do not intend to eat.
          SP41-2015
    07/21/2015
    Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2013-0020
    Variations in Meal Requirements for Religious Reasons: Jewish Schools, Institutions and Sponsors
        This instruction is intended to clarify allowable variations to child nutrition program food components in order to meet religious needs among Jewish schools, institutions and sponsors.
          783-13 Rev. 3
    03/27/2013
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2007-0014
    Fluid Milk and Other Food Components/Menu Items in Reimbursable Lunches
        It has come to our attention that there may be some confusion concerning fluid milk, and how it is offered in reimbursable lunches. Under all menu planning approaches, fluid milk is a separate food component/menu item.
          SP06-2007
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