Food and Nutrition Service

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The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers food security programs. While its staff number amongst USDA's fewest, its budget is by far the largest. This money is spent on entitlement food security programs.

These programs most notably include:

Food stamps
National School Lunch Program (NSLP), school breakfast program, and afterschool snack program, which provide free or reduced price meals to children from qualifying households
Woman Infants and Children (WIC) program

In the United States, the lunches that are subsidized by the NSLP are nearly ubiquitous in public schools. The program has operated since 1946.

The FNS is in charge of the national "Five A Day" and "Eat Smart, Play Hard" campaigns which encourage Americans (more specifically, children and teens) to follow the healthy eating guidelines set by the Food Pyramid. The spokescharacter of the "Eat Smart, Play Hard" campaign is Power Panther.

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