module 3: choosing healthy foods for kids cooking matters extra for center-based child care...
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Module 3:Choosing Healthy Foods for Kids
Cooking Matters EXTRA for Center-Based
Child Care Professionals
NATIONALLY SPONSORED BY
CACFP: Child and Adult Care Food Program
• A program of the US Department of Agriculture
• Provides reimbursement for meals that meet requirements, which helps pay some of the cost of feeding children in child care
• An important piece of the solution to childhood hunger
Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters 2
CACFP and Nutrition• Studies show that children in
CACFP receive meals that are nutritionally better than those served to children in child care settings without CACFP.
• Children on CACFP have higher intakes of key nutrients, fewer servings of fats and sweets, than children in non-participating care.
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CACFP Components, by Meal Type
Meal Type Milk F/V Bread/Bread Alt
Meat/Meat Alt
Breakfast X X X Not required
Lunch/Supper X XX X X
Snack • Two of the four components required • Can’t offer two liquids or two produce
What Is a Whole Grain? Whole wheat
Bulgur
Brown rice
Oats
Whole corn (not degerminated)
Quinoa
Buckwheat
Amaranth
Teff
Whole or hulled barley
Whole kamut
Millet
Sorghum
Whole spelt
Triticale
Wild rice
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