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Connecting Nutrition with Food, Fitness & Crafts ($)

Nutrition education goes beyond serving healthy meals and snacks. Incorporating nutrition education in multiple facets through recipes, active games, and fun crafts can help reinforce the importance of keeping our body healthy. Learn how you can tie in the foods we eat with easy, nutrition-related activities throughout the year.

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Build a Healthy Eating Routine

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans has a variety of online resources that professionals can use to help parents and caregivers start infants and children off with a healthy eating routine. MyPlate also has great tipsheets for parents and caregivers based on the life stage.

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Serving Traditional Indigenous Foods

To support the use of traditional Indigenous foods in Child Nutrition Programs, FNS has created a new webpage as an organized hub of technical assistance resources and policy guidance. This new webpage, Serving Traditional Indigenous Foods in Child Nutrition Programs, houses relevant policy guidance and resources to assist CNP operators in determining how traditional Indigenous foods may contribute toward a reimbursable meal.

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Creating Variety and Flavor with Seasonal Produce

Have you ever eaten a fresh apple or a peach right off a tree? If so, you know seasonal produce is fresh and tastes delicious, making children more likely to eat it. In addition to great taste, buying seasonal products also helps sustain the local economy.

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July Snack Attack

Try out these #CACFPCreditable snack combinations when you’re planning your next grocery trip!

Roasted sweet potato cubes and mixed fruit
Cheese and tomato slices, stacked
Oven potatoes and cheese cubes
Chicken salad and broccoli
Pita bread and sliced tomatoes

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