1. Module 3: Choosing Healthy Foods for Kids
Cooking Matters EXTRA for Center-Based
Child Care Professionals
Module 3: Choosing Healthy Foods for Kids

2. 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
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3. 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.

4. CACFP Meal Components

5. CACFP Components, by Meal Type
Milk
F/V
Bread/
Bread Alt
Meat/
Meat Alt
Breakfast X
Not required
Lunch/Supper XX
Snack
Two of the four components required
Can’t offer two liquids or two produce

6. MyPlate

7. MyPlate: Examples!
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8. MyPlate: Examples!

9. MyPlate: Examples!

10. The Nutrition Facts Panel

11. What Is a Whole Grain? Whole wheat Teff Bulgur Whole or hulled barley
Brown rice
Whole kamut
Oats
Millet
Whole corn (not degerminated)
Sorghum
Whole spelt
Quinoa
Triticale
Buckwheat
Wild rice
Amaranth

12. What Is a Whole Grain?

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