Posts by chloe@cacfp.org
Meal Pattern: Crediting Yogurt as Fluid Milk
Yogurt – does it credit as a meat/meat alternate or a fluid milk?
Read MoreNational CACFP Week is Coming Up – Are You Ready?
National CACFP Week is March 12-18,2023. What can you do to celebrate?
Read MoreBeginners’ Guide to the Five Meal Pattern Components ($)
Centers, family child care homes, and afterschool care play a critical role in serving nutritious foods to those they serve. The CACFP guides you on how to provide healthy meals using five food components which make up the meal service requirements: grains, fruits, vegetables, meats/meat alternates and milk. Learn when these are required and how they fit into the CACFP meal pattern.
Read MoreMeal Pattern Minute: Home-Canned Fruits and Vegetables
We’ve covered home-frozen foods, now how about home-canned foods? Are they #CACFPCreditable?
Read MoreProgram Stewardship, Monitoring and Oversight with MH Miles
Are you seeking additional resources and support to complete compliance monitoring reviews, audits, and complaint investigations? Can you use a strategic partner to facilitate staff and subrecipient training, consult with on evaluating complex institutions, and to evaluate your existing review tools and processes for efficiencies? MH Miles can help!
Read MoreMenu Planning Made Easy: Health-e Pro Software Demo
Health-e Pro software offers nutrient analysis, menu planning, and online publishing. Color-coding makes meal planning easy while maintaining compliance. Standardized recipe building is simple with 5,000 pre-loaded products and recipes in the software. Easily plan compliant menus for CACFP, SBP, NSLP, SFSP and Smart Snack standards.
Read MoreTaking the Paper Out of CACFP Paperwork with KidKare
Are you tired of keeping track of CACFP paperwork? What if we told you we could cut the time you spend on paperwork in half? Learn how KidKare by Minute Menu solves the problem—by taking all the CACFP paperwork and reporting digital. Whether you sponsor homes, centers, or both, we have a solution for you. With 30 years of experience, we are continuing to make CACFP easier and more manageable.
Read MoreBeyond Beginners: Crediting Recipes for Family Child Care
Already attend the Beginner’s Guide session? In this advanced session for family child care home providers, learn how to evaluate recipes and scale them down to smaller quantities while ensuring they are CACFP creditable. Become confident in developing your own #CACFPCreditable recipes to make and serve for those in your care!
Read MoreBeyond Beginners: Crediting Recipes for Centers
Already attend the Beginner’s Guide session? In this advanced session for centers, learn how to evaluate and scale-up recipes while ensuring they are CACFP creditable. Become confident in developing your own #CACFPCreditable recipes to make and serve for those in your care!
Read MoreBeginner’s Guide to Crediting Recipes in the CACFP
Maybe you love to develop delicious recipes, or a parent has shared one of their family favorites, but you are not sure how to make it creditable in the CACFP. Learn key tips and methods on how to evaluate recipes to ensure they are #CACFPCreditable as we guide you through our recipe crediting worksheet. This introductory session is recommended prior to attending any Beyond Beginners sessions.
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