FNS Documents & Resources

¡Preparemos una merienda! Planificador de menús de meriendas para el Programa de Alimentos para el Cuidado de Niños y Adultos para niños de 3 a 18 años de edad.

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

Estas herramientas son para uso de agencias estatales, organizaciones patrocinadoras y otros para capacitar a proveedores, operadores, planificadores de menús y otro personal en el cumplimiento de los estándares de nutrición del CACFP que incluyen una mayor variedad de vegetales, más granos integrales y menos azúcares añadidos y grasa saturada.

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.

This is a flyer for the Child and Adult Care Food Program; meals served by CACFP must meet nutrition requirements established by the USDA.

This resource is designed to help Child and Adult Care Food Program operators provide garden-based nutrition education for children ages 3 through 5 years in family child care settings.

School meals are required to meet specific nutrition standards to operate the school meals programs. The standards align school meals with the latest nutrition science and the real world circumstances of America’s schools. 

The new standards will allow schools to offer healthier snack foods for our children, while limiting junk food served to students. Students will still be able to buy snacks that meet common-sense standards for fat, saturated fat, sugar, and sodium, while promoting products that have whole grains, low fat dairy, fruits, vegetables or protein foods as their main ingredients.

Attachment 5 FY 2001 Provisions 2 & 3 Grant State Profile

On Sept. 1, 2004, FNS published an interim rule entitled, Child and Adult Care Food Program: Improving Management and Program Integrity. This rule puts into effect regulatory provisions that FNS had proposed on Sept. 12, 2000, as modified in response to 548 public comments received on that proposal.