CACFP MEAL GUIDELINES Meal Pattern Requirements Children 1 year and older MEAT & MEAT ALTERNATES • Cheese foods I spreads, cottage cheese and ricotta cheeses may be used as meat alternates but twice as much is needed. • Cooked dry beans or dry peas may be used as meat alternates or vegetables, but not both in the same meal. • Processed meats SL!Ch as luncheon meat or hot dogs must be 100% meat with no fillers added. • It is recommended peanut butter be served with another meat alternate at lunch and supper. • Combination foods such as casseroles and soups credit for up to 3 meal components. BREAD & BREAD ALTERNATES • A whole grain or-an enriched flour or meal must be the primary ingredient by weight in bread I alternates. • Cereals must be whole grain, enriched or fortified. The grain product must be the primary ingredient by weight. • Breakfast cereals, coffee cakes, doughnuts and pastries credit at breakfast and snack only. • Cookies; including granola bars, animal crackers, vanilla wafers and animal shaped graham snacks; may be served only at snack. They may be served no more than twice a week. • Combination foods such as casseroles and soups credit for up to 3 meal components . FRUITS & VEGETABLES • To count toward the fruit 1 vegetable requirement, a minimum of 118 cup fruit I vegetable must be served; otherwise, it is considered a garnish. • Two servings of foods from the fruit I vegetable group need to be served at lunch and .supper. You may serve two fruits, two vegetables, or one of each. • Home canned products are not creditable for health and safety reasons. • Cooked dry beans and peas may credit as a vegetable or a meat alternate, but not as both at the same meal. • Vegetables and I or fruit items served as a combination item such as fruit salad or mixed vegetables credit as 1 fruit/vegetable serving. • Combination foods such as casseroles and soups credit for up to 3 meal components. MILK • Milk means pasteurized, fluid milk. Reconstituted nonfat dry milk is not creditable. INFANT FOODS • Until the day of a child's first birthday, the infant meal patterns must be followed. • Meals or snacks containing only breast milk or iron fortified infant formula (regardless of who supplies it) served to infants participating in the Food Program are reimbursable, until the infant is developmentally ready for additional foods. • Regardless of who supplies the iron fortified infant formula or breast milk, the Provider must supply all developmentally appropriate and required solids to be reimbursed for an infant's meals or snacks. • A Special Diet Statement is required when an infant's meals do not meet the infant guidelines and reimbursement is desired. The Special Diet Statement must be signed by a physician, physician's assistant, certified nurse practitioner, registered dietician, licensed nutritionist, or chiropractor. • Peanut butter and yogurt are not acceptable meat/alternates for infants. • Commercial combination infant foods and infant desserts are not creditable. Age: 1-2 years 3-5 years BREAKFAST Fluid Milk 112 cup 3/4 cup Juice or fruit or vegetable 1/4cup 112 cup Bread or bread alternate 1/2 slice 112 slice (or 1/2 oz.) (or 1/2 oz.) or cold dry cereal 1/4cup (or 1/3 oz.) 113 cup (or 112 oz.) or cooked cereal 1/4 cup 114 cup SNACK Fluid Milk 1/2 cup 112 cup or fruit or vegetabla 1/2 cup 112 cup Meat or meat alternate 112 oz. 1/2 oz. or yogurt 2 oz. (or 1/4 cup) 2 oz. (or 1/4cup) Bread, bread alternate, 1/2 slice 1/2 slice or cereal 1/4 cup 1/3 cup LUNCH I SUPPER (DINNER) Fluid Milk 1/2 cup I 3/4 cup Meat or poultry or fish or 1 oz . I 11/2 oz. cheese or meat alternate Vegetables and/or fruit 1/4 cup (Total) 112 cup (Total) (2ormore) Bread or bread alternate! 1/2 slice i 1/2 slice Meal Pattern Requirement for Infants Age: BREAKFAST LUNCH/SUPPER (OINNER) Birth through 1 4.{) fluid ounces , 4-6 fluid ounces 3 months breast milk or I breast milk or formula formula 4 months througH 4-6 fluid ounces 4-6 fluid ounces 7 months breast milk or breast milk or formula formula 0-3 tablespoons 0-3 tablespoons infant cereal*",@ infant cereal ... ,@ 0-3 tablespoons fruit and/or vegetable @ 6 months up to 6-6 fluid ounces 6-6 fluid ounces first birthday breast milk or breast milk or formula formula 2-4 tablespoons infant 2-4 tablespoons cereal'" and/or 1-4 infant cereal'" tablespoons meat, fish, 1 poultry. egg yolk, or 1-4tablespoons cooked dry beans or fruit and/or peas, or 112 -2 ounces vegetable cheese, or 1-4 ounces cheese food or cheese spread. 1-4tablespoons fruit and/or vegetable • • • Iron-fortified dry infant cereal. • • • • Full-strength fruit juice. • • • • • Made from whole-grain or enriched meal or flour. 6-12 years ' I I 1 cup I 1/2 cup J 1 slice I (or 1 oz.) 3/4 cup (or 1 oz.) 1/2 cup ! I 1 cup I 3/4cup I 1 oz. ,, 4 oz. (or 1/2 cup) 1 slice I 3/4 cup I 1 cup I 2 oz. I ' 3/4 cup (Total) : i ! 1 slice SNACK I j 4.{) fluid ounces I breast milk or formula I 1 4-6 fluid ounces breast milk or I formula I 2-4 fluid ounces breast milk or formula, I or fruit juice•••• 0-112 slice bread I : or crackers ...... @; I ! I I • Commercial infant foods containing fillers such as tapioca and modified food starch are not creditable . @ Required when the Infant Is developmentally ready to accept it. FOR ADDITIONAL CREDITING INFORMATION, CONSULT YOUR FOOD PROGRAM MANUAL.
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CACFP MEAL GUIDELINES Meal Pattern Requirements Children 1 year and older
MEAT & MEAT ALTERNATES
• Cheese foods I spreads, cottage cheese and ricotta cheeses may be used as meat alternates but twice as much is needed.
• Cooked dry beans or dry peas may be used as meat alternates or vegetables, but not both in the same meal.
• Processed meats SL!Ch as luncheon meat or hot dogs must be 100% meat with no fillers added.
• It is recommended peanut butter be served with another meat alternate at lunch and supper.
• Combination foods such as casseroles and soups credit for up to 3 meal components.
BREAD & BREAD ALTERNATES
• A whole grain or-an enriched flour or meal must be the primary ingredient by weight in bread I alternates.
• Cereals must be whole grain, enriched or fortified. The grain product must be the primary ingredient by weight.
• Breakfast cereals, coffee cakes, doughnuts and pastries credit at breakfast and snack only.
• Cookies; including granola bars, animal crackers, vanilla wafers and animal shaped graham snacks; may be served only at snack. They may be served no more than twice a week.
• Combination foods such as casseroles and soups credit for up to 3 meal components .
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
• To count toward the fruit 1 vegetable requirement, a minimum of 118 cup fruit I vegetable must be served; otherwise, it is considered a garnish.
• Two servings of foods from the fruit I vegetable group need to be served at lunch and.supper. You may serve two fruits, two vegetables, or one of each.
• Home canned products are not creditable for health and safety reasons.
• Cooked dry beans and peas may credit as a vegetable or a meat alternate, but not as both at the same meal.
• Vegetables and I or fruit items served as a combination item such as fruit salad or mixed vegetables credit as 1 fruit/vegetable serving.
• Combination foods such as casseroles and soups credit for up to 3 meal components.
MILK
• Milk means pasteurized, fluid milk. Reconstituted nonfat dry milk is not creditable.
INFANT FOODS
• Until the day of a child's first birthday, the infant meal patterns must be followed.
• Meals or snacks containing only breast milk or iron fortified infant formula (regardless of who supplies it) served to infants participating in the Food Program are reimbursable, until the infant is developmentally ready for additional foods.
• Regardless of who supplies the iron fortified infant formula or breast milk, the Provider must supply all developmentally appropriate and required solids to be reimbursed for an infant's meals or snacks.
• A Special Diet Statement is required when an infant's meals do not meet the infant guidelines and reimbursement is desired. The Special Diet Statement must be signed by a physician, physician's assistant, certified nurse practitioner, registered dietician, licensed nutritionist, or chiropractor.
• Peanut butter and yogurt are not acceptable meat/alternates for infants.
• Commercial combination infant foods and infant desserts are not creditable.
• • • • • Made from whole-grain or enriched meal or flour.
6-12 years ' I
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• Commercial infant foods containing fillers such as tapioca and modified food starch are not creditable . @ Required when the Infant Is developmentally ready to accept it.
FOR ADDITIONAL CREDITING INFORMATION, CONSULT YOUR FOOD PROGRAM MANUAL.
LEGEND Breakfast Only Breakfast or Snack Only Pre-packaged foods must
have a CN label Double Portion Required Homemade Snack Only Not Reimbursable for Infants Under 1 Year
FRUITS **Fresh, Frozen, or Canned
Apple Applesauce Apricot Bananas Blackberries Blueberries Boysenberries Breadfruit Cactus Fruit Cantaloupe Cherries Cranberries Cranberry Sauce Dates Figs Fruit Cocktail Fruit Plate Fruit Salad Grapefruit Grapes Guava Honeydew Melon Jello with Fruit Kiwi Kumquat Mandarin Oranges Mangoes Marion Berries Nectarines Oranges Papaya Peaches Pears Persimmons Pineapple Plantain Plums Prunes Raisins Raspberries Rhubarb Star Fruit Strawberries Tangerines Ugli Fruit Waldorf Salad Watermelon
JUICE 100% Fruit Juice Only -a Months or Older .. Fresh, Frozen, Canned, or Dried
Apple Cider Apple Juice Apple-Cherry Juice Apple-Cranberry Juice Apple-Grape Juice Apple-Pear Juice Apple-Raspberry Juice Berry Juicy Juice
FRUITS Caribbean Juice Splash Carrot Juice • Cherry Juice Cranberry I Combo Juice Fruit juice Grape Juice Grapefruit Juice Hawaiian Sunrise Juice Mandarin I Tangorinc Juice Mixed Juice Orange Juice Orange-Banana Juice Orange-Pineapple Juice Peach Juice Pear Juice P<:>ar-Apple .Juice Pear-Grape Juice Pineapplo Juice Pineapple Passion Fruit Juice Plantain Popsicles (100% juice) SN Prune Juice Punch Juicy Juice Raspberry Juice Strawberry Juice Tangerine Juice Tomato I V-8 Juice Tropical Fruit Juice Tropical Juicy Juice V\lhite Grape Juice
mixes I non-fat dry milk Buttermilk Eggnog (commerciaQ Flavored Milk (choc/strawb) High Protein Milk Lactose-Reduced I free Milk Low-fat Milk Skim Milk Special Provision (Doctor's Statement required) Whole Milk
BR BRISN CN
DBL HM SN
LEGEND
Breakfast Only Breakfast or Snack Only Pre-packaged foods must have a CN label Double Portion Required Homemade Snack Only Not Reimbursable for Infants Under 1 Year
Baked Beans Black Beans Chili Beans INFANT FOODS Dry Wax Gourd Fava Beans Garbanzo Beans/Chick Peas Grcnt Northern Beans Green Beans Lima Beans Mung Beans Navy Beans Pinto Beans Pork "N" Beans Red I Kidney Beans Refried Beans Soybeans Wax I Yellow Beans
GREEN I LEAFY VEGETABLES Cabbage, Red I White Collard Greens Green Salad Kale Lettuce Mustard Greens Napa Cabbage Parsnip Spinach Swiss Chard
EGGS I MEATS Infant Egg Yolks Infant Beef Infant Chicken Infant Ham Infant Lamb Infant Turkey Infant Veal
FORMULA Breast Milk or Iron Fortified Infant Formula
Non-Iron Fortified Infant Formula (Doctor's Statement required)
Parent Provided Iron Fortified Formula (parent waiver required)
FOR INFANT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES MAKE SELECTIONS
FROM THE REGULAR FOOD CHART
NO COMBINATION MEALS
JUICE IS ONLY ALLONED AT SNACK AND ONLY FOR INFANTS 8 TO 12 MONTHS.