KEY WORD Q & A GAME BOARD LAYOUT

USDA

MEAL

REIMBURSABLE

REIMBURSABLE

DIETARY FOOD

REQUIREMENTS

MEALS 1 MEALS 2 SPECIFICATIONS COMPONENTS

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What are food components?

What are non-creditable

foods?

What are

creditable

foods?

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Lunch requires that you offer all five of

these: Fruits, Vegetables,

Meat/Meat alternates,

Grains and Milk. Foods including pudding, cream cheese, potato chips, or bacon

that cannot count toward a

reimbursable meal.

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Foods that can count towards a

reimbursable meal.

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What are Child

Nutrition (CN)

Labels?

What is a

standardized

recipe?

What are combina

tion foods?

These are found on the packaging of many foods used in schools

and provide standardized

information about the food including how the food contributes to the

meal pattern requirements. These types of

recipes are tested for consistency so

that every time they are prepared

they have the same taste,

nutritional value,

and produc

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e the same number of servings.

These types of food contain two or more food components.

Examples include salads, pizza, and

sandwiches.

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What is a Free meal?

What is a Serve

Only meal?

What is yes.

This is a reimburs

able meal.

A student will not be charged for any cost

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This type of meal service requires all five

related to thisrealfood components

eimbursable m when certified eligible

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for this benefit. be

selected by each student.

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What is an Offer Versus Serve meal?

What is decline?

What is a

reimbursable

meal?

A school meal that includes

all the necessary

food components

in the required minimum

portion sizes may be

counted as this.

In Offer Versus Serve a student may two of the five

food components so

long as they

take at l

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east ½ cup of Fruits or

Vegetables.This type of meal service

allows students to decline up to two of the five

food components so

long as they select at least ½ cup of either

a fruit or vegetable.

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What are non-

reimbursable

meals?

What is a Reduced

price meal?

What is à la carte?

Meals that cannot be

claimed for reimbursemen

t.Examples

include: adult meals,

à la carte, and

second meals.

A student who is not eligible for a completely Free meal may still be eligible for this type of

meal.

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The name of a food item that is not part of a reimbursablemeal. This term

is often used in foodservice for foods that are

purchased individually.

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What is Offer Versus Serve?

What is five?

What is no.This is not a reimbursable

meal -no Meat/Meat alternate is

offered.

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This type of meal service is mandatory in

high school butoptional in

other grades.

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Offer Versus Ser

ve meal service

requires this number of

foodcomponent

s be offered to students.

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What is a calorie?

What is the

Nutrition Facts label?

What is nutrient dens

This label tells you the

This term indicates that

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A unit of measure forserving size

and in

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a food is higher in

the energy in food. cludes informatioabd vitamins and mineralsout the calories ann

and lower in calories.

utrients in a serving of the

food.cu

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What is trans fat?

What is sodium?

What is saturated fat?

This type of fat is often found in

baked goods such as cakes, cookies, and crackers. Only

foods with zero grams listed on

the

Consuming too much of this mineral may lead to high

blood pressure and can

This t

ype of fat often comes from animals but

can also come from plants.

Examples

include butter, lard,

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What is whole grain-rich?

What are

Meat/Meat

alternat

What are unflavored low-fat and unflavored

and flavoredfat-free milk?

Products that contain at

The food component

that includes foodss,

The only types of milk that are

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least 50 percentwhole

grain and 50

percentenriched grain

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may be called this.

uch as cheese, eggsnut butters, cooked dry beans or

peas, seeds, yogurt,

and commercially

prepared tofu.

allowed to be

served in the

School Lunch

Program.

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What are fruit jiuces?

What are leafy greens?

What are Vegetable subgrou

For these food items only

products that are 100% full strength may

be served in the School

Lunch Program.

Two cups of this food

item count as a one cup

portion of

Vegeta

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bles.The

categories for these are Dark Green,

Red/Orange, Beans and Peas, Starchy,

and Other.

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