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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

For School Food Service: CD copies of the Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs and the Menu Planner for Healthy School Meals will be packaged in a dual mailer and will be available to order in Fall 2008.

For Child Care Centers: A CD copy of the Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs will be available to order in Fall 2008.

Available: only in PDF.

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• Food Buying Guide Replacement Pages
  
• 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