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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
The Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs has been expanded and updated. It has a great new look, with an updated design, including color-coded tabs for each section, pictures, new charts and graphics. There are hundreds of new food items and much, much more.
Printed: November 2001
Revised: January 2008
Distributed: to state agencies as well as to school Food Authorities for distribution to their schools.
Available: on CD upon request. Also available in PDF.
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- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Meat/Meat Alternates - Contains more specific cuts, game
meats, cooked ham and the Institutional Meat Purchase
Specification (IMPS) number for certain items.
- Vegetables/Fruits - Contains many ready-to-use items and
new items such as kiwi, starfruit and yucca.
- Grains/Breads - Contains a worksheet to calculate grams of
flour, new classifications based on the grains/bread instruction,
and information on how to determine if a product is creditable.
- Milk - Contains a more complete list of fluid milk available and
their updated product names.
- Other Foods - Contains additional items.
- Appendix A Recipe Analysis
- Appendix B Using Column 6 for Recipe Analysis
- Appendix C The USDA Child Nutrition Labeling Program
- Appendix D Food Purchasing: A Summary of First Choice
and Choice Plus
- Appendix E Resources -Quick Website and Phone Number
Reference Guide
- Index of Foods
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