USDA Memos

Program Year 2026-27

• USDA Memo SP 02-2026, CACFP 01-2026, and SFSP 01-2026: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 – Promoting Real Food in Child Nutrition Programs
• USDA Memo SP 03-2026, CACFP 02-2026, and SFSP 02-2026: Incorporating Local Beef into Child Nutrition Program Meals
• USDA Memo SP 05-2026, CACFP 03-2026, SFSP 03-2026: 2026 Appropriations Act: Effect on Child Nutrition Programs
• USDA Memo SP 08-2026 and CACFP 04-2026: Expanding Fluid Milk Options in Child Nutrition Programs

Program Year 2025-26

• USDA Memo CACFP 01-2025: Nutrition Requirements for Fluid Milk and Fluid Milk Substitutions in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, Questions and Answers
• USDA Memo CACFP 02-2025: Offer Versus Serve and Family Style Meals in CACFP
• USDA Memo CACFP 05-2025: Grain Requirements in the Child and Adult Care Food Program; Questions and Answers
• USDA Memo SP 03-2025, CACFP 03-2025, and SFSP 01-2025: Substituting Vegetables for Grains in American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Tribal Communities
• USDA Memo SP 05-2025, CACFP 04-2025, and SFSP 02-2025: Guidance for Accepting Processed Product Documentation for Meal Pattern Requirements 
• USDA Memo SP 11-2025, CACFP 09-2025, and SFSP 05-2025: Using Federal Funds to Purchase Local Foods 
• USDA Memo SP 13-2025, CACFP 10-2025, and SFSP 06-2025: Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025: Effect on Child Nutrition Programs

Program Year 2024-25

• USDA Memo CACFP 05-2024 Implementation Guidance: State Agency Review Requirements 
• USDA Memo CACFP 12-2024 and SFSP 16-2024 Q&As Related to CACFP 11-2021, SFSP 07-2021 Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data by Visual Observation and Identification in the CACFP and SFSP – Policy Rescission – Set 2
• USDA Memo SP 01-2016, CACFP 01-2016, and SFSP 01-2016 Procuring Local Meat, Poultry, Game and Eggs for Child Nutrition Programs – REVISED
• USDA Memo SP 02-2024, CACFP 02-2024, and SFSP 02-2024 Revised: Crediting Tofu and Soy Yogurt Products in the School Meal Programs, CACFP, and SFSP
• USDA Memo SP 18-2024, CACFP 06-2024, and SFSP 11-2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024: Effect on Child Nutrition Programs
• USDA Memo SP 19-2024, CACFP 07-2024, and SFSP 12-2024 Initial Implementation Memorandum: Child Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• USDA Memo SP 22-2024, CACFP 08-2024, and SFSP 13-2024 Geographic Preference Expansion Related to the Final Rule titled, Child Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• USDA Memo TA 01-2024 Crediting Traditional Indigenous Foods in Child Nutrition Programs

Program Year 2023-24

• USDA Memo CACFP 01-2023 Creditability of Infant Formulas Imported Through the Food and Drug Administration’s 2022 Infant Formula Enforcement Discretion Policy in the Child and Adult Care Food Program
• USDA Memo CACFP 07-2023 Oversight and Monitoring of the Child and Adult Care Food Program - Guidance on On-site and Off-site Strategies and Options
• USDA Memo SP 06-2023, CACFP 05-2023, and SFSP 02-2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023: Effect on Child Nutrition Programs
• USDA Memo SP 07-2023, CACFP 06-2023, and SFSP 04-2023 Unique Entity Identifier Transition
• USDA Memo SP 21-2023, CACFP 10-2023, and SFSP 12-2023 Initial Implementation Memorandum: Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule

USDA Memos from Prior Years

All USDA memos are available on the USDA Food and Nutrition Administration's (FNA) FNA Documents & Resources webpage.