DGAs
From MyPlate to the upside-down pyramid
What is the visual difference between the 2020 and 2025 DGAs?
Reduced food waste and cost and students' right to choice
What are the benefits of Offer vs Serve?
Taco Thursday, Italian Tuesdays, and Homestyle Wednesdays are all ways to incorporate new cuisines and transform history into food
What are cultural representation days?
Milk, Eggs, Fish, Shellfish, Tree Nuts, Peanuts, Wheat, Soybeans, and Sesame
What are the top allergens found in foodservice systems?
This meal component amount stays at 1/2 oz eq all day for Pre-K
What are Grains?
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?
School nutrition employees have a different way of wording a true food name
What is a food component vs a food item?
August Back to School, November Harvest, and Holly Jolly December are all ways to get students excited to come to the cafeteria
What are themed months?
Food service documentation to have on file that must be updated at the beginning of each school year
What is a special diet form?
This concept makes an exception when co-mingling happens during meal services
What is OVS in Preschool?
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?
Identifying a reimbursable meal can be as simple as counting backwards with this technique
What is the 3-2-1 Rule?
This concept is great for our visual learning in the cafeteria, where our chefs explain step by step how to produce each meal to the best it can be
What are video demo tutorials of school recipes?
A registered dietitian, school nurse, parent/guardian, cafeteria supervisor, teacher, and pediatrician are just a few individuals involved in this process
What is an interdisciplinary team working with special diets?
1/2 cup gets reduced to 1/4 cup as the meal time changes
What is the breakfast vs lunch vegetable meal pattern difference?
This 2025 DGA concept sounds great in theory, but its practicality can be difficult to achieve in large foodservice systems
What is the shift to "real foods" and limiting "highly processed" foods?
At lunch, schools must offer 4 food items, and students must select 3, with one being at least a 1/2 cup of fruit and/or vegetable
What is a reimbursable meal?
Gone are the days of just chicken nuggets and pizza! Korean rice bowls and Chicken tikka masala have been seen all over the internet, but with this new age of school lunch, we can bring this concept to the lunch plate
What is social media use and influence?
An impairment which substantially limits a major life activity or bodily function, which can include allergies and digestive conditions, but does not include personal diet preferences
What is a disability?
Breakfast Buns, Grape/Cherry Tomatoes, and Maple Pancake Bites are all examples of listed food items
What are prohibited foods for Pre-K?
Going from <540mg to <535mg doesn't seem like a huge jump with this upcoming change.
What are the NSBP sodium limits for grades 6-8 after 7/1/2027?
The NSLP must offer these 5 food components
What are fruits, vegetables, grains, fluid milk, and meat/meat alternate?
Exposure to new fruits and vegetables can be implemented in your school through this federal program
What is FFVP?
Applesauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, and ground taco meat are options to accommodate this special diet diagnosis
What is a dysphagia diagnosis?
Cereal must contain 6 grams or less per dry oz, and Yogurt at 12 grams per 6oz
What are the sugar limits for Pre-K students?