Meal Patterns
The 3 required components of a CACFP Breakfast Meal.
What is Grains, Fruit/Veg (or both) and Milk?
Meat and meat alternates may be used to meet the entire grains requirement a maximum of 3 times a week. One ounce of meat and meat alternates is equal to 1 ounce equivalent (oz eq) of grains.
What can be given as a meat alternative for infant 6 month- 11 month?
Cheese, Cottage, and Yogurt
This milk can be served to 2 years olds and up.
What is 1%, skim, and or fat free?
POS stands for what.
What is Point of Service. (Serving the children a reimbursable meal)
The size food should be diced to.
What is 1/4 inch
The number of whole grain rich servings of grain required to each day (excluding infants).
What is at least one?
At least 2 serving per day, across all eating occasions, must be whole grain-rich (at least half the grain ingredients are whole grain and the remaining ingredients are enriched). Grain-based desserts do not count towards meeting the grains requirement.
Should you make the children stay at the table even when they say they are finished?
No
This milk can be served to toddlers.
What is whole milk?
How many meal can you claim for each child.
What is 3?
The maximum allowable meals per child per day is 3. You can claim either 2 main meals and 1 snack, or 1 main and 2 snacks.
The three compoments for 6-11 month olds for breakfast
What is formula/breastmilk, infant cereal/protein, and veg/fruit
This component can be served in place of Fruit component at CACFP Lunch and Supper as long as two different types are offered.
What is two different Vegetables?
A vegetable may be used to meet the entire fruit requirement. When two vegetables are served at lunch or supper, two different kinds of vegetables must be served.
These food items may count as the vegetable component OR the meat/meat alternate component.
What is Beans, Peas, Lentils (Legumes)?
Beans, peas, lentils may also count as a meat alternate, but not as both a vegetable and a meat alternate in the same meal
This milk type is not reimbursable in CACFP.
What is 2% milk?
Fluid milk served in CACFP to participants two years of age and older must be fat-free or low-fat (1%) milk. Whole milk can only be served to children 12-23 months old.
The five components to make up lunch.
What is milk, meat/meat alternative, fruit, veggie, and grain?
Proper labeling of a premade bottle.
What is name, date, time?
Breakfast cereal must contain no more than this many grams of “added” sugar per dry ounce.
What is 6 grams?
In 2024 USDA made the change to focus on “added sugar” rather than “total sugar” for both cereal and yogurt.
What are the 5 Meal Components?
Milk, Meat / Meat Alternatives, Grains, Fruit, and Vegetables
During snack, 4 ounce of milk should be given to which age group?
1-5 years
The required information that must be posted in the home care setting.
What is Building for the Future with CACFP poster? and WIC
The WIC / Building for the Future with CACFP poster need to be clearly posted at your care site at all times.
Formula can be served to a child until what age without needing a doctor's note.
What is 13 months?
What are the children main eating jobs?
To decide how much and whether he eats- of what you offer
Do you need to supervise your children when they are eating?
Yes, you never know what might happen when you are not looking. If children chokes on an object, the object stuck in their throat is not allowing oxygen to reach the brain. Within 4 minutes or less brain damage or even death can occur.
This major milk alternative is not creditable in CACFP unless child has a medical reason and a doctor's signature.
What is Lactose Free Milk, Soy Milk, Rice Milk, Coconut Milk, Oat Milk,?
This type of category known as _______ are either portions too small to credit towards the meal pattern or foods that do not fit into 1 of the 5 components.
What are Non-Creditable Foods or extras?
Condiments, seasonings, jam or toppings - foods that may still be served to help improve acceptability, but do not count toward meal pattern requirements.
Pancakes can be claimed for this meal service.
What is snack?