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Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance It’s Breakfast Time!

Check out this easy-to-use menu planner and recipe booklet for Child and Adult Care Food Program operators who provide breakfast meals for children 3–18 years of age.

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11/27/2023
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Team Nutrition Recipes

Update your breakfast menus with these easy-to-prepare USDA standardized breakfast recipes.

03/10/2023
Resource | Recipes Child and Adult Care Food Program Cooking Videos

These CACFP instructional cooking videos demonstrate the preparation and portion sizes of USDA standardized recipes for two age groups, children 3-5 and 6-18 years of age.

03/03/2023
Resource | Recipes CACFP Cooking Video: Baked Carrot Fries with Yogurt-Sunflower Seed Butter Dip Ages 6–18 

This CACFP cooking video demonstrates the quick-and-easy preparation of the USDA standardized recipe for Baked Carrot Fries with Yogurt-Sunflower Seed Butter Dip for children 6 through 18 years of age.

02/15/2023
Resource | Recipes Recipes for Healthy Kids: Cookbook for Schools

The recipes in the cookbook feature foods both children and adults should consume more of: dark green and orange vegetables, dry beans and peas, and whole grains. All of these healthy recipes are low in total fat, saturated fat, sugar and sodium.

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07/29/2022
Resource | Recipes CACFP Cooking Video: Peach and Yogurt Smoothies Ages 6–18

This CACFP cooking video demonstrates the quick-and-easy preparation of the USDA standardized recipe for Peach and Yogurt Smoothies for children 6 through 18 years of age.

06/23/2022
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Let’s Make a Snack!

Program operators that provide snacks for children 3–18 years of age can get menu planning tips and recipes.

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04/15/2022
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance Feeding Infants in the Child and Adult Care Food Program

This is a training tool for CACFP operators with infants discussing the infant meal pattern, developmental readiness, hunger and fullness signs, handling breastmilk and infant formula, solid foods, what is creditable, and more.

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10/27/2019
Resource | Technical Assistance Directions for Menu Worksheet

FNS menu worksheet is a tool designed to assist school food authorities in demonstrating that each of the menus meets the new meal pattern for the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program.

08/02/2012
Page updated: October 14, 2021