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September 2023- Farm-to-School Updates and Pre-K Meal Pattern Requirements

August 2023- Annual Cashiers Training

Emily Karel, North Dakota’s Team Nutrition Grant coordinator

Assist cashiers in understanding a reimbursable meal under the National School Lunch Program and National School Breakfast Program.
Skill-building activities for meal monitors to recognize reimbursable meals.

May 2023: Wrap up to revisit what still needs doing and what is to come in SY24.

Paid Lunch Equity (PLE), Adult meal pricing, Ala Carte pricing & the Nonprogram Food Revenue Tool
HB1494: “Lunch Shaming” Bill – more guidance to come
HB1491/SB2294: Free Lunch for Working Poor Bill – Communicate with your point of sale company or build the new eligibility class into your Excel spreadsheets
Free/Reduced meal application has been reformatted to accommodate new eligibility class/Income Guidelines contain another table of numbers
End of the Year reminders: SNP renewal; Summer P-EBT; Triennial assessment of the Local Wellness Policy; Professional development hours
- For the following resources please email dpicnfd@nd.gov
  - Documents included in the resource packet
  - Free / Reduced-Price meal applications, household letters, and notification letter templates can be found under the SNP/Free-Reduced Information tab.
  - USDA Paid Lunch Equity tool – SY23-24 to help set student lunch pricing
  - NDDPI Adult Meal price spreadsheet to set adult meal prices within requirements
  - USDA Nonprogram Food Revenue tool – required to be completed each year if the school is selling more than just second milk and adult meals
  - USDA Sample Detailed NP tracking tool
  - NDDPI quick 5-day calculator
  - Triennial assessment
  - Professional Development log

April 2023: “The Power of Power Lunch”

with Lenora Stevenson, Student Information Specialist with Edu-Tech. Power Lunch is a module of the state student information software Power School. Lenora walks through the reports available in Power Lunch and how to download the meal data to work with it in an Excel spreadsheet.

For more information about the module, contact Edu-Tech at https://www.edutech.nd.gov/ Use the “Support” drop-down menu to file a ‘Help ticket.’
The Institute of Child Nutrition has an interactive spreadsheet called “Key Performance Indicators for School Nutrition Success” to use the data that is gained from Power Lunch. Search for this spreadsheet on www.theicn.org.

March 2023: Summer Food Service Program Updates

February 2023: USDA Proposed Rule & Submitting a Public Comment

Assistant Director Lynelle Johnson covered most of the proposed revisions to child nutrition programs during the first 19 minutes of the webinar. At minute 19:20, Amy Nelson, Child Nutrition Specialist encourages you to make comments on the proposed changes. She shows you where to find the comment submission form and adds helpful hints on how to comment. The Question and Answer session was not recorded.

Resources for this session are:

Links to resources mentioned during the presentation:

Link to submit a Public Comment:

Federal Register:: Child Nutrition Programs: Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
- - Look for Section 16, if you would like the “sparknote” version of the updates, or check out the Attachment of the ‘Highlights’

January 2023: Procuring School Food & Supplies for SY 24

This presentation goes through the basic types of procurement for your school food service. We also talk with Lisa Truax on the ND Coop’s Direct to Manufacturer food bid, timeline, and what is next for schools who have opted into this procurement type. For those who have not opted into the ND school food coop, we have templates for you to start your procurement plan with. Remember all schools must have a procurement policy and code of conduct written for their staff – samples are provided.

December 2022– USDA Foods

November 2022 – 7 CFR 210.8(a)(1): On-site Review.

An annual review of the lunch and breakfast programs must be completed each year by February 1 at districts that have more than one school site. USDA strongly encourages all schools to review the checklist for “program accountability and integrity.”

Site Monitoring Worksheet

September 2022 - Annual Cashier Training

Includes training in Civil Rights compliance, Reimbursable meal identification and what is Offer vs Serve meal service

August 2022– Back in the Saddle Again with Free/Reduced Meal Applications

The federal school meal programs are returning to income eligibilities and meal pricing structures this year, so we want to remind you how families should fill the applications out and then how a school district will process them.

Instructions on How to Apply for Free and Reduced Price School Meals

June 2022 – Hot Topics, Cool Ideas, and Nice pics from our Recap of NDSNA 2022.

Customer service was a key focus of this year’s state School Nutrition Association conference. Find copies of all the resources from the convention at www.northdakotasna.com/conference We also review the foodshow fare – new products for next year’s menus and new ways to prepare old favorites. Enjoy!

May 2022– Top Ways to Prepare for Next Year

April 2022– Meal Pricing - Student, Adult, and A la Carte with Tips and Tricks for keeping production costs inline