Education Archives - National CACFP Association

Meal Pattern Minute: Reimbursable Meals and Snacks

What does it mean for a meal or snack to be reimbursable?

Meal Pattern Minute: Creditable Meal Components

What is meant by the term “creditable meal component” in the CACFP?

Meal Pattern Minute: Preparing One Vegetable Two Ways in the Same Meal

Could you serve potato wedges as a second vegetable if mashed potatoes are your first vegetable?

Meal Pattern Minute: Iron-Fortified Infant Formula

What does it mean for an infant formula to be iron fortified?

Meal Pattern Minute: Creditable Foods from Farmers Markets

Can you purchase local, CACFP creditable foods from a farmers market?

Meal Pattern Minute: Creditable Smoothie Components

Can all ingredients in a smoothie be credited in the CACFP?

Meal Pattern Minute: Parent/Guardian-Supplied Components in the Infant Meal Pattern

Can a parent or guardian supply a meal component for their infant in the infant meal pattern?

Meal Pattern Minute: Savory Pie Crusts

Could the crust of a chicken pot pie credit as the grains component?

Meal Pattern Minute: Juice Cocktail

Are juice cocktails creditable in the CACFP?

Meal Pattern Minute: Raw Cow’s Milk

Is raw cow’s milk creditable in the CACFP?