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Nichols JB, Rader P, Wilkening V, Consumer and Food Economics Institute . 1977. A guide for precosting food for school food service . [Washington, DC]: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Consumer and Food Economics Institute , 39 pp.

Annotation: This guide is designed to help school food service managers to control food costs in menu planning. It offers guidance on selecting economical foods and provides instructions for precosting individual food items (including donations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture), recipes, and complete menus. Included are measurement unit conversion tables to assist in calculating individual serving costs when handling bulk food supplies.

Keywords: Child nutrition, Cost containment, Economics., Food, School lunch programs
   

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