Enter Category Breakfast
What is the one item required to count a breakfast as reimbursable?
1 fruit serving
The required minimum amount of fruit in a meal to count as reimbursable.
1/2 cup, or 1 fruit serving.
The number of vegetable sub-groups
5
The system used for chicken nuggets
Counting or By The Piece
Best solution when cannot serve the vegetable of the day.
Find another vegetable in that Sub-Group.
The number of SERVINGS required for a reimbursable breakfast
3 or more
True or False
4 oz of juice is considered a "Fruit choice"
TRUE: juice is one of the fruit component group choices along with fresh, canned and dried fruits
Kidney Beans belong in this sub group
Bean/Legume
Dried fruit (raisins or Craisins) proper portion size
1/4 c
True or False
If someone decides NOT to file a Civil Rights complaint, food service responsibilities are done.
False: Under ALL circumstances, the food service staff involved in the incident will ALWAYS need to fill out the required Incident Report. That report is forwarded to USDA.
Can juice be offered daily at breakfast at elementary schools?
True or False
True: the reg is that no more than half of the fruit offerings for 1 week can be coming from juice.
Canned fruit must be packed in one of these 2 types
Broccoli belongs in this sub group
Dark Green
True or False
a Medical Note is required for providing Lactaid
DEPENDS: If a district typically provides Lactaid, no note is needed. If a district does not provide Lactaid but the Medical Note requires it, then the school where that student attends will need to provide it to him/her.
True or False
You can operate a meal service (B or L)
without milk being available for selection?
False: you MUST have milk available as a meal component OR Emergency approval from the state to run a meal period without milk.
The portion size required for dried fruit (raisins or Craisins) to equal 1/2 cup fruit serving
1/4 cup
This is the proper way to portion out fresh fruits.
By weighing using the Start With Half A Cup Chart
Slotted spoodles are required for these foods
Baked Beans or other bean items with juice and canned fruit with juice.
Fruit and Vegetable Choices are always portioned in this amount.
1/2 cup
This is the ONLY way you are allowed to serve a meal to a child that doesn't meet the USDA Meal Pattern and still ring it in on the POS as a MEAL.
When you have a Medical Note
Can a student choose items for their breakfast that don't include a "true grain" item. For example, 2 fruits and a milk, , or yogurt, juice and milk.
Yes or No
Yes. A TRUE grain must be OFFERED on the menu and in the serving line, but doesn't have to be selected by the student.
The proper way to determine whether a juice can be credited as fruit or a vegetablle
Check the first ingredient: if a fruit then a fruit, if a vegetable then a vegetable.
The measure of leafy greens to credit as one half cup
1 full cup
What vegetables do NOT like to be chilled?
Potatoes, tomatoes
True or False:
If a CSDE Medical Statement for a Menu Modification is completed and signed by approved signers and submitted to the district, the directions on that statement must be followed.
TRUE
Whatever a medical authority has stated needs to be done to accommodate a specific student, once the statement has been received, we are obligated to follow those directions.