Lunch or Supper Meal Pattern
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Select All Four Components for a Reimbursable Meal |
1 milk |
1 cup |
fluid milk |
2 fruits/vegetables |
3/4 cup |
juice,1 fruit and/or vegetable |
1 grains/bread2 |
1 slice |
bread or |
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1 serving |
cornbread or biscuit or roll or muffin or |
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1/2 cup |
hot cooked cereal or |
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1/2 cup |
pasta or noodles or grains |
1 meat/meat alternate |
2 oz. |
lean meat or poultry or fish3 or |
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2 oz. |
alternate protein product or |
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2 oz. |
cheese or |
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1 large |
egg or |
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1/2 cup |
cooked dry beans or peas or |
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4 Tbsp. |
peanut or other nut or seed butter or |
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1 oz. |
nuts and/or seeds4 or |
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8 oz. |
yogurt5 |
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1 Fruit or vegetable juice must be full-strength.
2 Breads and grains must be made from whole-grain or enriched meal or flour. Cereal must be whole-grain or enriched or fortified.
3 A serving consists of the edible portion of cooked lean meat or poultry or fish.
4 Nuts and seeds may meet only one-half of the total meat/meat alternate serving and must be combined with another meat/meat alternate to fulfill the lunch or supper requirement.
5 Yogurt may be plain or flavored, unsweetened or sweetened. |
Snack (Supplement) Meal Pattern
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Select Two of the Four Components for a Reimbursable Snack |
1 milk |
1 cup |
fluid milk |
1 fruit/vegetable |
3/4 cup |
juice,1 fruit and/or vegetable |
1 grains/bread2 |
1 slice |
bread or |
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1 serving |
cornbread or biscuit or roll or muffin or |
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3/4 cup |
cold dry cereal or |
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1/2 cup |
hot cooked cereal or |
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1/2 cup |
pasta or noodles or grains |
1 meat/meat alternate |
1 oz. |
lean meat or poultry or fish3 or |
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1 oz. |
alternate protein product or |
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1 oz. |
cheese or |
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1/2 large |
egg or |
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1/4 cup |
cooked dry beans or peas or |
|
2 Tbsp. |
peanut or other nut or seed butter or |
|
1 oz. |
nuts and/or seeds or |
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4 oz. |
yogurt4 |
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1 Fruit or vegetable juice must be full-strength. Juice cannot be served when milk is the only other snack component.
2 Breads and grains must be made from whole-grain or enriched meal or flour. Cereal must be whole-grain or enriched or fortified.
3 A serving consists of the edible portion of cooked lean meat or poultry or fish.
4 Yogurt may be plain or flavored, unsweetened or sweetened. |