Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• http//schoolmeals.nal.usda.gov/FBG/buyingguide.ht
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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• YIELD DATA
• Yields may be used immediately
• Yields must be used for the 2002-2003 school year
• Updated yield data

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• HISTORY
• In 1947 - Quantities of Food for Serving School
  Lunches
• 1955-1979 - The Food Buying Guide for Type A
  School Lunches
• In 1984 Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition
  Programs
• Food and Nutrition Service
• National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• Human Nutrition Information Service (HNIS)

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• Updating the Food Buying Guide

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• Develop a list of products to be evaluated
• Regional Office and State Agency input
• Some yields obtained were lower than expected

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• New Features
• Many new and revised food items
• Many new and revised portions
• Seven sections plus the index
• Introduction
• Meat/Meat Alternates
• Vegetables/Fruits
• Grains/Breads
• Milk
• Other Foods
• Appendices

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
Introduction
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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
Introduction
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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• Meat/Meat Alternates
• New Yield Data
• Ground Buffalo
• Ostrich Medallions
• Ham water added
• Institutional Meat Purchase Specification
• Retains meat/poultry yield data

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• Vegetables/Fruits
• New Items and Yield Data
• Baby Carrots
• Celery Sticks
• Kiwi
• Star Fruit
• Taro
• Yucca

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• Grains/Breads
• Worksheet to calculate grams of creditable grains
• Current grains/breads instruction has been
  incorporated
• Contains product classifications based on the
  grains/breads instruction (Exhibit A)

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• Grains/Breads
• Contains information and a flow chart to assist
  in determining if a product is creditable

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• Milk
• Contains a more complete list of fluid milk
  available and their updated product names

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• Other Foods
• Contains additional food items

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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
Appendix A Recipe Analysis
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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
Appendix B Using Column 6 for Recipe Analysis
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Appendix C Child Nutrition (CN) Labeling Program
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Appendix D Food Purchasing
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Appendix E Resources