USDA Memos
Program Year 2026
- USDA Memo SFSP 04-2026: Ensuring Integrity in Non-Congregate Meal Service in the Summer Food Service Program
- 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
Program Year 2025
- 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 added to Crediting Foods in the Summer Food Service Program--Vegetables and Fruits
- 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
- 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 SFSP 03-2024 and SP 05-2024 Implementation Guidance for the Rural Non-congregate Option Provisions of the Interim Final Rule, Establishing the Summer EBT Program and Rural Non-Congregate Option in the Summer Meal Programs
- USDA Memo SFSP 04-2024 and SP 06-2024 Rural Designations in the Summer Meal Programs – Revised
- USDA Memo SFSP 07-2024 and SP 13-2024 Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Areas Questions and Answers
- USDA Memo SFSP 08-2024 and SP 15-2024 Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Areas: Q&As #2
- USDA Memo SFSP 09-2024 Meal Claim Validation in the Summer Food Service Program
- 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
- USDA Memo SFSP 01-2023: and SP 05-2023: Implementation Guidance: Summer 2023: Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Areas
- USDA Memo SFSP 03-2023: Guidance on Performance Standards, Budgets, and Management Plans in the Summer Food Service Program
- USDA Memo SFSP 05-2023: SFSP Best Practices for Meal Claim Verification and Ensuring Properly Payable Claims
- USDA Memo SFSP 06-2023: Oversight and Monitoring of the Summer Food Service Program - Guidance on On-site and Off-site Strategies and Options
- USDA Memo SFSP 08-2023: Guidance on Site Selection Criteria during Reviews in the SFSP
- USDA Memo SFSP 09-2023: Approved Levels of Meals for Vended Sites in the Summer Food Service Program
- USDA Memo SFSP 10-2023: Initial Site Visits in the Summer Food Service Program
- USDA Memo SFSP 13-2023: Unused Reimbursement in the Summer Food Service Program
- USDA Memo SFSP 14-2023: Best Practices for Managing Unused Reimbursement in the Summer Food Service Program
- USDA Memo SFSP 15-2023: Best Practices for Determining Proximity of Sites in the Summer Food Service Program
- 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