The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service recently released new guidance to extend the flexibility to allow participants in the at-risk afterschool component of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) to take certain food items off site, often referred to as the ”Traveling Apple Policy.” This allowance only applies to the at-risk afterschool component of the CACFP and improves consistency among the Child Nutrition Programs. The guidance states that children can take one vegetable, fruit or grain item off site to eat at a later time but must be from the child’s own meal or snack or left on a shared table by another child that did not want it. The California Department of Education’s Expanded Learning Division encourages grantees who are currently serving meals through the CACFP to review the memo attached, and to communicate and coordinate with their school nutrition services representative on implementation of the provision. For more information visit the CDE website and read the CAN post summarizing these policy changes.