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CN Labels & PFS Made Simple

Understanding CN Labels and Product Formulation Statements (PFS) is essential for meeting CACFP meal pattern requirements. We’ll equip you with practical tools to determine when and how to request documentation and sharpen your skills to identify discrepancies and ensure compliance. You’ll also learn how to navigate crediting documentation confidently and sidestep those common pitfalls.

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Food Explorers: Growing Adventurous Eaters

Learn to create positive and supportive mealtimes that help children develop healthy relationships with food. Discuss the benefits of maintaining the division of responsibility in feeding in child care settings and how to grow confident and adventurous eaters through supportive language, modeling and consistency. Help even the most reluctant eaters grow into competent eaters who enjoy a variety of foods!

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Navigating Special Diets

Allergies, intolerances and sensitivities. What is the difference between the three? Learn how to navigate proper documentation, communication and compliance to foster a safe environment for children with special dietary needs and requests. 

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Addressing Feeding Concerns & Approaches to Nutrition Therapy

Do you struggle with picky and selective eaters? Learn to navigate feeding concerns for picky, selective, or avoidant eaters. Understand the root causes and work with your children to support their eating by focusing on the environment and the reasons behind their struggle. Help the children in your care feel confident, rather than scared and anxious, to fuel their body!

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CACFP Recipe Development for Centers

Discover how to transform everyday recipes to meet the nutritional standards of the CACFP. Explore the process of finding, evaluating and modifying recipes to provide meals to large groups at child care centers. Learn step-by-step techniques to increase serving sizes, adjust ingredients and accurately enter everything into the Food Buying Guide (FBG) with confidence.

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Tailoring CACFP Meals: The Role of Medical Statements in Special Diets

Medical statements have an important role within the CACFP. Do you know when they are required? Are you confident in your menu planning when you have one on file? Gain a deeper understanding of how medical statements support accommodating special diets, including food allergies and milk substitutions, ensuring that all participants receive appropriate and nutritious meals. Learn how to create an inclusive and supportive meal environment for those in your care.

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Annual CACFP Training FY26

Looking for comprehensive CACFP training for new or seasoned CACFP operators working in child care centers, family homes or adult day care centers? Review annual training topics including meal patterns, meal counts, claims submission, review procedures, recordkeeping requirements, monitoring requirements, reimbursement system, Civil Rights and important updates in the CACFP, as well as learning how to identify breakfast cereals and yogurts that follow the CACFP added sugars limit regulation.

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Menu Planning for the CACFP

Develop meal planning techniques that can be used to serve healthy and appealing meals and snacks that meet CACFP and preschool meal pattern requirements. Learn how to accommodate food allergies, incorporate multi-cultural recipes and locally-sourced foods, develop strategies for creating custom menus and go home with menus you can use immediately or as inspiration. 

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All About Grains

Let’s talk about grains! Learn what are creditable and non-creditable grains in the CACFP, how to identify whole grain-rich  and how to calculate grain ounce equivalents in recipes and pre-packaged grain products to meet CACFP grain requirements for the age(s) you are serving. 

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