Adult Care Meal Pattern |
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| Lunch for Adults Select All Four Components for a Reimbursable Meal |
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| 1 milk | 1 cup | fluid milk |
| 2 fruits/vegetables | 1 cup | juice,1 fruit and/or vegetable |
| 1 grains/bread2 | 2 slices 2 servings 1½ cups 1 cup 1 cup |
bread or cornbread or biscuit or roll or muffin or cold dry cereal or hot cooked cereal or pasta or noodles or grains |
| 1 meat/meat alternate | 2 oz. 2 oz. 2 oz. 1 1/2 cup 4 Tbsp. 1 oz. 8 oz. |
lean meat or poultry or fish3 or alternate protein product or cheese or egg or cooked dry beans or peas or peanut or other nut or seed butter or nuts and/or seeds4 or yogurt5 |
| 1 Fruit or vegetable juice
must be full-strength. 2 Breads and grains must be made from whole-grain or enriched meal or flour. Cereal must be whole-grain or enriched or fortified. 3 A serving consists of the edible portion of cooked lean meat or poultry or fish. 4 Nuts and seeds may meet only one-half of the total meat/meat alternate serving and must be combined with another meat/meat alternate to fulfill the lunch requirement. 5 Yogurt may be plain or flavored, unsweetened or sweetened. |
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