School Meals Training
2025 School Meals Foodservice Training
Breakfast Meal Pattern: Meal Components, Nutrient Standards
Lunch Meal Pattern: Meal Components, Nutrient Standards
Meal Service: Offer vs Serve, Non-Program Foods, Competitive Foods, Smart Snacks
Preschool Meals: NSLP/SBP Meal Pattern, CACFP Meal Pattern, Co-Mingled, Meal Service
Documentation & Recordkeeping: Menus, Production Records, Meal Component Credit Documentation, Record Retention
Purchasing & Procurement: Purchasing Regulations, Procurement Plan, Code of Conduct, Buy American, USDA Food Programs
Food Safety: Food Safety Regulations, Certified Staff Requirements, Record Retention
Professional Standards & Staffing: Hiring Standards, Continuing Education, Training Tracker, Civil Rights
Handout Packet School Meals Training 2025
2025 Bookkeeper Training
2025 Bookkeeper Training Flyer
Bookkeeper Office Hours
September 10th- Buy American and Additional Program Requirements
- Recording-Buy American and Additional Program Requirements
- Slide Deck-Buy American and Additional Program Requirements
- Handout Packet- Buy American and Additional Program Requirements
- Buy American Tracking Tool (PDF)
- Buy American Tracking Tool (Excel)
August 21- Meal Counting and Claiming
- Recording-Meal Counting and Claiming
- Slide Deck-Meal Counting and Claiming
- Handout Packet- Meal Counting and Claiming
July 29th-Determining Meal Eligibility
- Slide Deck-Determining Meal Eligibility
- Handout Packet-Determining Meal Eligibility
- Recording-Determining Meal Eligibility
2025 Bookkeeper update
Process for determining Meal Eligibility-Direct Certification
Process for determining Meal Eligibility-Free and Reduced-price Meal Application
School Lunch Program Training
- Child Nutrition Training Academy – Information for the summer 2026 Academy will be available in February 2026.
- Direct Certification and Direct Verification
- Outline of Civil Rights Guidance to be in Compliance
- USDA Civil Rights Requirements and Child Nutrition Programs (recorded training video)
- PowerPoint Slides and Transcript
- after opening double click on comment icon in upper left corner to open transcript.
- if opening in desktop version of Adobe you can also go to View, Tools, Comment, Open to display the transcript.
- PowerPoint Slides and Transcript
Annual Civil Rights Training Certificate
NDE is awaiting the most current version of the ‘And Justice for All’ Poster with the updated non-discrimination statement. Once it is available, we will communicate this with all School Food Authorities (SFAs)
- Institute of Child Nutrition E-Learning Portal – list of online training on a broad range of topics for child nutrition professionals working in school nutrition