DGA Updates
Emphasis on saturated fat, lack of consideration of dairy consumption, and increased protein intake are the top 3 takeaways.
What are the differences between the 2020-2025 and 2025-2030 DGAs?
What are the daily offerings in the new breakfast cycle?
Decreased food costs and waste, Smoother serving lines, more efficient meal forecasting, and increased students' confidence in their own decision-making
What are the advantages of Offer vs Serve?
A student-run initiative where excess food from the serving line can be donated and shared for other students to take if wanted.
What is a ShareTable?
Limiting alcoholic and sugar-sweetened beverages and increasing daily fruit, vegetable, and whole-grain consumption are just a few concepts that remain the same.
What are the similarities between the 2020-2025 and 2025-2030 DGAs?
2 weeks and 6 weeks
What is the length of the breakfast and lunch cycles?
Identifying a reimbursable meal can be as simple as counting backwards with this technique
What is the 3-2-1 Rule?
This online marketplace is used by nonprofits, community donors, and food recovery entities to reduce waste and put excess food to good use.
What is CareIt?
From the regular pyramid to MyPlate to the upside-down pyramid
What are the visual differences between the previous and current DGAs?
Taco Thursday, Grab and Go Mondays, and International Days once per cycle to increase menu diversity and meal participation
What are some 9-12 lunch cycle menu elements?
The NSLP must offer these 5 food components
What are meat/meat alternate, fruit, vegetables, fluid milk and grains?
Perishable Items, Supervision, and Liability are all key considerations to keep in mind during this waste reduction initiative.
What are consideration/guidelines of a Share Table?
Less processed foods, a push towards more scratch cooking, and whole milk being back in schools are all possible effects of the most recent DGA updates
What are some potential changes that could affect school nutrition?
Funnel cake fries, personal pan pizzas, turkey and chipotle black bean burgers, and chicken tikka masala are all examples to diversify and upgrade our menus
What are some new recipes being offered for the 26/27 school year?
In our big umbrella example, the name of one of the required food groups served vs the name of the SPECIFIC food offered
What is a food component vs a food item?
Founded in 2008, this local non-profit partners with MSCS Nutrition Services to provide community and school environmental waste reduction strategies, with the goal of becoming a more sustainable and civically-empowered city.
What is Clean Memphis?
Eat the right amount for you. Prioritize protein foods at every meal. Consume dairy, eat vegetables and fruit throughout the day. Incorporate healthy fats, focus on whole grains. Limit highly processed fods/added sugars/refined carbs. Limit alcoholic beverages
What are the 2025-2030 DGAs?
National Nutrition Month, Grandparent’s Day, and Apple Crunch Day are all examples of fun activities to upgrade MSCS Nutrition Services
What are some monthly promotions being offered by MSCS Nutrition Services?
At lunch, schools must offer 5 food components, students must select 3, with one being at least a 1/2 cup of fruit and/or vegetable.
What is a reimbursable meal?
This USDA policy establishes Federal protection from civil and criminal liability for persons and/or schools involved in the donation and distribution of food and grocery products to needy individuals when donating food in good faith
What is the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act?