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 Meal Components

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

MyPlate

MyPlate: Examples!

Source: http://blogs.usda.gov/

MyPlate: Examples!

http://blogs.usda.gov/

MyPlate: Examples!

http://blogs.usda.gov/

The Nutrition Facts Panel

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

What Is a Whole Grain?

Questions?

Cooking Matters EXTRA for Center-Based Child Care Professionals was developed with support from the Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation