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Meal Pattern Minute: Jicama
Is jicama creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Bean Flour Pasta
Can pasta that is made from 100% bean flour credit towards the grains component?
Meal Pattern Minute: Crediting Corn
Does corn credit as a vegetable or a grain in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Toddler Formula
Is formula made for toddlers creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Enriched Grains as First Ingredient
If a grain product list enriched grains as the first ingredient, is the product creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Serving Milk to Mixed Ages
Can a mixed age group of 1- and 2-year-olds all be served unflavored 1% milk in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Vegetable Spirals
Are vegetable spirals creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Freezing Yogurt
Can a provider serve yogurt that they have frozen?
Meal Pattern Minute: Pureed Vegetables
Can a pureed vegetable that is mixed into a dish credit towards the meal pattern?
Meal Pattern Minute: Dehydrated Vegetables
Are dehydrated vegetables creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Açai
Are açai creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Fruit Leather
Are 100% fruit strip leather snacks creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Enriched Grains
What are enriched grains?
Meal Pattern Minute: Whole Grains
What are whole grains?
Meal Pattern Minute: Milk at Supper for Adults
Is milk required at supper for adults?
Meal Pattern Minute: Whole Grain-Rich for Infants
Do CACFP operators need to provide one whole grain-rich grain per day when serving infants?
Meal Pattern Minute: Edamame
Are edamame creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Tomato Sauce
Does tomato sauce credit by volume served in the CACFP?