New Meal Patterns are here!!

Family Day Care Homes must comply with the new meal patterns by October 1, 2017!


New Child and Adult Care Food Program Meal Patterns


Child and Adult Meal Pattern

Vegetables and Fruits
  • Creates a seperate vegetable component and a seperate fruit component
  • Allows two vegetables at lunch and supper
  • Limits juice to once per day
Grains
  • Requires at least one grain per day be whole grain-rich (Whole grain-rich = foods that contain at least 50% whole grains and the rest are enriched, or contain 100% whole grains)
  • Disallows grain-based desserts
  • Uses ounce equivalents to determin serving sizes for grains (10.1.19)

Meat and Meat Alternatives
  • Yogurt must contain no more than 23 grams of sugar per 6 ounces
Fluid Milk
  • 1 year old children: whole, unflavored milk
  • 2 year olds and older and adults: low-fat or fat-free milk
  • Adults: yogurt in place of milk once per day
  • Non-dairy beverages
Flavored Milk
  • Children 0 - 5 years old: Prohibited
  • Children 6 years old and older and adults: Recommends as a best practice that flavored milk contain no more than 22 grams of sugar per 8 fluid ounces
Food Preparation & Additional Requirements
  • Prohibited: Deep-fat frying = cooking by submerging in hot oil or other fat
  • Prohibited: The use of food and beverage as a reward or punishment
  • Required: Offering water to children
  • Allowed: Providing one meal component for children or adults with non-disability medical or special dietary needs
  • Codified: Family-style meal service
  • Allowed: Offer versus serve for at-risk afterschool programs

Infant Meal Pattern

Infant Age Groups and Solid Foods
  • Two age groups: 0-5 months and 6-11 months
  • Solid foods are allowed when developmentally appropriate for the infant 
Breastfeeding and Infant Snack
  • Meals may be reimbursed when a mother breastfeeds on-site
  • A vegetable or fruit must be served at snack for older infants; prohibits juice
  • Ready-to-eat cereals are allowed at snack for older infants
Meat and Meat Alternates
  • Allows cheese, cottage cheese, and yogurt
  • Whole eggs






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