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The forms below are for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) school nutrition programs, including the School Breakfast Program (SBP), National School Lunch Program (NSLP), Seamless Summer Option (SSO) of the NSLP, Afterschool Snack Program (ASP) of the NSLP, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP), and Special Milk Program (SMP). For guidance on program requirements, CSDE's Program Guidance for School Nutrition Programs webpage.

Note: The date in italics after each document is the current revision date.

 

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A

• A la Carte Food Cost and Price Charged Comparison Worksheet: Allowable Expenditures section of CSDE's Financial Management for School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Action Planning Form  September 2024
• Addenda (Free and Reduced Applications): Application Forms section of CSDE's Eligibility for Free and Reduced-price Meals and Free Milk in School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Administrative Review: Forms section of CSDE's Administrative Review for School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Afterschool Snack Program (ASP): Forms section of CSDE's Afterschool Snack Program webpage
• Application for Free and Reduced-price School Meals or Free Milk: Application Forms section of CSDE's Eligibility for Free and Reduced-price Meals and Free Milk in School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Authorized Signatures: Authorized Signatures Change Form and Instructions  December 2025

B

• Benefit Issuance: Benefit Issuance Excel Spreadsheet (BIES)   September 2025
• Buy American Justification Form  December 2025

C

• Certification of Meal Pattern Compliance: USDA Meal Pattern Compliance Worksheets section of CSDE's Certification of Meal Pattern Compliance for School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Civil Rights: Civil Rights for School Nutrition Programs section of CSDE's Civil Rights for Child Nutrition Programs webpage
  • Civil Rights Complaint Procedures for School Nutrition Programs  July 2025
  • Sample Taglines Form for Child Nutrition Programs   December 2025
• Community Eligibility Provision (CEP): Documents/Forms section of CSDE's Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) webpage
• Connecticut Nutrition Standards (CNS) Worksheets: Evaluating Foods for CNS Compliance section of CSDE's CNS webpage 

D

• Disclosure Release: Disclosure Release Request for Free or Reduced Eligibility Status of Students in the School Nutrition Programs  January 2026
  • USDA Memo SP 16-2016, CACFP 06-2016, SFSP 10-2016: Disclosure Requirements for the Child Nutrition Programs

E

• Edit Check Forms: Edit Check Forms section of CSDE's Meal Counting and Claiming for School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Equipment Purchase Approval Request Form: Allowable Expenditures section of CSDE's Financial Management for School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Exemption Requests
  • Lunch Period Waiver: Circular Letter C-9: Federal and State Requirements for Provision and Timeframe of Daily Lunch Period for Students 
  • Meal Pattern Exception Request Form for Residential Child Care Institutions (RCCIs)  September 2023
  • Weekend or Vacation Waiver: FNS 786-7 Rev. 2: Reimbursement for Meals and Milk Served on Weekends  

F

• Family Application for Free and Reduced-price School Meals or Free Milk: Application Forms section of CSDE's Eligibility for Free and Reduced-price Meals and Free Milk in School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Food Distribution Program: USDA Foods
• Food Service Management Company: School Food Authority/Food Service Management Company Monitoring Form  January 2026
• Free and Reduced-price Meals: Application Forms section and Parent and Guardian Notification Letters section of CSDE's Eligibility for Free and Reduced-price Meals and Milk in School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Fundraisers: Sample Fundraiser Form for Healthy Food Certification (HFC)  January 2026

H

• HFC Documentation Forms: Annual HFC Documentation section of CSDE's HFC webpage

 

I

• Interschool Agreements
• • Full-service Interschool Agreement Form  January 2026
  • Recipient Site Vended Interschool Agreement  January 2026

M

• Meal Count Forms (CSDE's Meal Counting and Claiming for School Nutrition Programs webpage)
• Media Release: Press Release
• Medical Statements (CSDE's Special Diets in School Nutrition Programs webpage)
• Menu Forms for Preschoolers: Menu Forms and Production Records section of CSDE's Meal Patterns for Preschoolers in School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Menu Planning Checklists for Lunch for Grades K-12  June 2025
  • Five-day Week Lunch Menu Planning Checklist: Grades K-5
  • Five-day Week Lunch Menu Planning Checklist: Grades 6-8
  • Five-day Week Lunch Menu Planning Checklist: Grades 9-12
  • Five-day Week Lunch Menu Planning Checklist: Grades K-8
  • Seven-day Week Lunch Menu Planning Checklist: Grades 6-8
  • Seven-day Week Lunch Menu Planning Checklist: Grades K-5
  • Seven-day Week Lunch Menu Planning Checklist: Grades 9-12
  • Seven-day Week Lunch Menu Planning Checklist: Grades K-8
• Monitoring Forms
  • ASP: Afterschool Snack Program (ASP) On-site Monitoring Form January 2026
  • FSMC: School Food Authority/Food Service Management Company Monitoring Form  January 2026
  • NSLP: School Food Authority On-site Review Checklist for the National School Lunch Program  January 2026
  • SBP: School Food Authority On-site Review Checklist for the School Breakfast Program  January 2026
  • SSO: Seamless Summer Option (SSO) Sponsor Monitor Site Review Form September 2023
  • Overview of Meal Counting and Claiming Process  

N

• Nonprogram Foods Pricing Worksheets (Adult Meals and A La Carte Sales): "Nonprogram Foods" section of CSDE's Financial Management for School Nutrition Programs webpage

P

• Paid Lunch Equity: Paid Lunch Equity section of CSDE's Financial Management for School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Parent/Guardian Notification Letters (Free and Reduced Applications): Parent and Guardian Notification Letters section of CSDE's Eligibility for Free and Reduced-price Meals and Free Milk in School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Policy Statement for Free and Reduced-price Meals, Afterschool Snack Programs, and Free Milk  January 2026
• Press Release
  
  • Sample Public Media Release for Public School Sponsors of the Connecticut School Nutrition Programs  January 2026
  • SSO only: Sample Press Release for the SSO  
  • CEP schools only:  Sample Press Release for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) June 2025
• Procurement: Forms and Policy Memos section of CSDE's Procurement for School Nutrition Programs webpage
• Production Records for Grades K-12 in the NSLP and SBP: Production Records section of CSDE's Production Records for School Nutrition Programs webpage 
• Production Records for Preschoolers in the NSLP, SBP and ASP: Menu Forms and Production Records section of CSDE's Meal Patterns for Preschoolers in School Nutrition Programs webpage 
• Production Records for the Afterschool Snack Program (ASP): "Forms" section of CSDE's ASP webpage 
• Professional Standards Tracking Log   January 2026

R

• Refrigerator and Freezer Temperature Control Record   January 2026

S

• Seamless Summer Option (SSO) of the NSLP: Forms section of CSDE's SSO webpage
• Snack Count Forms for the ASP (Not Site Area Eligible): Forms section of CSDE's ASP webpage 
• Snack Count Forms for the ASP (Site Area Eligible): Forms section of CSDE's ASP webpage 
• Special Milk Program (SMP): Forms section of CSDE's SMP webpage
• Standardized Recipe Form for School Nutrition Programs  January 2026

U

• USDA Foods 
  • USDA Foods Transfer Request Form  May 2024
  • USDA Foods Ordering Worksheets: "Direct Delivery and Processing Orders" section of CSDE's Food Distribution Program webpage

V

• Verification: Forms section of CSDE's Verification Procedures for School Nutrition Programs webpage

Y 

• Yield Study Form for Child Nutrition Programs (CSDE)  January 2026