Child Meal Pattern Child Care Food Program Meal Pattern Revisions for Children

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1 Child Meal Pattern Child Care Food Program Meal Pattern Revisions for Children

2 Overview New Child Meal Pattern Requirements for: Milk Vegetables Fruit Grains Meat & Meat Alternate Crediting Grains Activity Menu Activity Special Needs Meals Best Practices

3 BREAKFAST Meat or meat alternates may substitute for the ENTIRE grains component at breakfast a maximum of three times per week.

4 LUNCH / SUPPER

5 SNACK

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7 New Meal Pattern Goals Vegetables and fruits Whole grains, vegetables and fruits Variety of meat/ meat alternates Added sugar, saturated fat, and sodium

8 Summary of Changes Separate vegetable & fruit components Juice once per day One serving of whole grains per day No grain-based desserts Tofu counts as meat/mt alternate (M/MA) M/MA may replace entire breakfast grain component up to 3 times per week Breakfast cereals must contain no more than 6 grams of sugar per dry ounce No flavored milk for children 5 and under If flavored milk is served to children 6 and older, it must be fat-free Unflavored whole milk must be served to 1 year old children Yogurt must contain no more than 23 grams of sugar per 6 ounces Frying not allowed on site

9 Age Groups Ages 1 & 2 Ages 3-5 Ages 6-12

10 Fluid Milk 1 year old children: unflavored whole milk 2 5 year olds: unflavored low-fat (1%) or unflavored fat-free milk No flavored milk for children 0-5 years old 6 years old and older children: unflavored low-fat (1%) milk, unflavored fat-free milk, or flavored fat-free milk Non-dairy soy beverages

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12 Vegetables Creates a separate vegetable component and a separate fruit component (except breakfast)

13 Vegetables Allows two vegetables at lunch and supper

14 Fruit Providers cannot credit two fruits at lunch or supper. Juice limited to once per day per CCFP, but Cornerstone limit to no more than once a week!

15 Grains Whole Grains: The word whole is listed before each grain on the ingredients list Rolled oats and oatmeal (quick cooking, old-fashioned, and instant) Brown rice, brown rice flour, wild rice, quinoa, millet, buckwheat Note: Whole wheat is one kind of whole grain, so all whole wheat is whole grain, but not all whole grain is whole wheat

16 Grains At least one grain per day must be 100% whole grain All other grains must be made with whole grain or enriched meal or flour

17 Easy Whole Grain Swaps White rice Brown rice White bread 100% Whole wheat bread Sugar cereal 100% Whole grain cereal topped with fruit Grits Oatmeal Pasta (refined) 100% Whole wheat pasta Animal Crackers 100% Whole grain crackers

18 Grains Disallows grain-based desserts

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20 Exhibit A

21 Breakfast Cereal and Sugar Guide Option 1: Use a Florida WIC-Approved Cereal. This list is updated annually and is posted on our Cornerstone CCFP website. All of the cereals on this list are creditable cereals which meet the sugar limit.

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23 Breakfast Cereal and Sugar Guide

24 Breakfast Cereal Example Example 1: Corn Flakes Number of sugars: 1 Serving Size: 28 =.03 If the number is 0.21 or less, the cereal meets the CCFP sugar limit. Does this cereal meet the sugar limit? YES

25 Breakfast Cereal Example Example 2: Raisin Bran Number of sugars: 18 Serving Size: 59 =.31 If the number is 0.21 or less, the cereal meets the CCFP sugar limit. Does this cereal meet the sugar limit? NO

26 Grains Uses ounce equivalents to determine serving sizes for grains (starting October 1, 2019) 1 oz eq = 16 grams of creditable grain (whole or enriched)

27 Crediting Grains Activity Sheets will be passed out. Work with a small group and determine if the grain item(s) is creditable on the new meal pattern, if no, why not? And if so, will it also meet the 100% whole grain for the day requirement? 5 minutes

28 Meat and Meat Alternates May substitute the ENTIRE grains component at breakfast a maximum of three times per week Allows tofu & soy yogurt

29 Meat and Meat Alternates: Yogurt Yogurt must contain no more than 23 grams of sugar per 6 ounces (15 grams of sugar or less per 4 ounce) (3.8 grams of sugar or less per 1 ounce)

30 Yogurt Example Option 1: Refer to the Yogurt Sugar Limits Chart

31 Yogurt Example Example 2: Number of sugars: 16 Serving Size: 4.5 = 3.56 If the number is 3.8 or less, the yogurt meets the CCFP sugar limit. Does this cereal meet the sugar limit? YES

32 Meat or meat alternates may substitute for the ENTIRE grains component at breakfast a maximum of three times per week.

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36 Work in groups New Meal Pattern Menu Activity What changes can be made to the menu day you are assigned in order to have it meet the new meal pattern Hint: simple changes are usually the best! 5 10 minutes

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38 Additional Provisions No frying on site Offer and make water available Use of food and beverage for reward or punishment Family style meals (optional)

39 Family Style Meals Type of meal service which allows children to serve themselves from common platters of food with the assistance of supervising adults A sufficient amount of prepared food must be placed on each table to provide the full required portions of each of the components Children must be allowed to serve the food components themselves, with the exception of fluids (such as milk) Second meals may not be claimed for reimbursement

40 Special Needs Meals Children with disabilities Children who cannot drink fluid milk Children with special dietary conditions (not including disabilities) Religious preference/vegetarianism

41 Medical Statements

42 Medical Statements

43 Best Practices: Vegetables and Fruit Make at least one of the two components of snack a vegetable or a fruit Serve a variety of fruits and choose whole fruits (fresh, canned, frozen, or dried) more often than juice Provide at least one serving of each vegetable subgroup per week

44 Best Practices: Grains Provide at least two servings of whole grain foods per day

45 Best Practices: Meat/Meat Alternates Serve only lean meats, nuts, and legumes Limit serving processed meats to no more than one serving per week Serve only natural cheeses and choose low-fat or reduced-fat cheese

46 Best Practices: Milk Serve only unflavored milk. If flavored milk is served to children 6 years old and older, select and serve flavored milk that contains no more than 22 grams of sugar per 8 fluid ounces

47 Additional Best Practices Limit purchased pre-fried foods Incorporate seasonal and locally produced foods

48 Summary Separate vegetable & fruit components Juice once per week One serving of whole grains per day No grain-based desserts Tofu counts as meat/meat alternate (M/MA) M/MA may replace entire breakfast grain component up to 3 times per week No flavored milk for children 5 and under If flavored milk is served to children 6 and older, it must be fat-free Unflavored whole milk must be served to 1 year old children Yogurt must contain no more than 23 grams of sugar per 6 ounces Breakfast cereals must contain no more than 6 grams of sugar per dry ounce Frying not allowed on site

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