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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

The Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs has all of the current information in one manual. You can print the entire manual, individual sections, or just updated pages to insert into your 2001 print copy. The manual includes an introduction, appendixes, and information on:

• Meat/Meat Alternates
• Vegetables/Fruits
• Grains/Breads
• Milk
• Other Foods

Printed: November 2001

Revised: January 2008

For School Food Service: CD copies of the Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs and Menu Planner for Healthy School Meals are packaged in a Tools for Schools dual mailer. Schools can order a copy of the dual mailer upon request from Team Nutrition.

For Child Care Centers: A CD copy of the Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs will be included as a bonus CD in the revised USDA Recipes for Child Care publication which will be available to order in November 2009.

Also available in PDF Download:

• Food Buying Guide Replacement Pages
• Food Buying Guide (entire file)
  
• Cover
  
• Table of Contents
  
• Introduction
  
• Meat/Meat Alternates - Contains more specific cuts, game
  meats, cooked ham and the Institutional Meat Purchase
  Specification (IMPS) number for certain items.
  
• Vegetables/Fruits - Contains many ready-to-use items and
  new items such as kiwi, star fruit and yucca.
  
• Grains/Breads - Contains a worksheet to calculate grams of
  flour, new classifications based on the grains/bread instruction,
  and information on how to determine if a product is creditable.
  
• Milk - Contains a more complete list of fluid milk available and
  their updated product names.
  
• Other Foods - Contains additional items.
  
• Appendix A Recipe Analysis
  
• Appendix B Using Column 6 for Recipe Analysis
  
• Appendix C The USDA Child Nutrition Labeling Program
  
• Appendix D Food Purchasing: A Summary of First Choice
  and Choice Plus
  
• Appendix E Resources -Quick Website and Phone Number
  Reference Guide
  
• Index of Foods