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April 7, 2020 eNews
COVID-19 Updates In some places, you may be the only reason food access is available. Your work is essential and you matter. Thank you. The Food and Nutrition Services team at the USDA is working around the clock to the ensure that you are able to serve meals to those in your care. There is a new waiver from FNS USDA. |
Finding Food & Supplies Shelves may be bare and purchasing limits may be in place at your local shopping center.
We're hoping to help you find services and creditable food products online.
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Building Lifelong Healthy Habits in Child Care "Nutrition is taught through a process of both experimenting and education" - From Casper, WY, Yvonne Fairbanks has been a CACFP participant since 2016. |
Shout Out To These New CACFP Professionals |
Meat and Meat Alternates at Breakfast If you plan to offer a meat or meat alternate at breakfast in place of grains, it must replace the entire required amount of grains. These worksheets from USDA's Team Nutrition show the minimum amount of a meat or meat alternate you would need to serve in place of grains at breakfast. |
Online CACFP Webinar Training There are many half-hour online webinars available for on demand training available at cacfp.org. Watch the webinar whenever you have thirty minutes, take the quiz, get a certificate of completion! Use these as CEUs toward your certification. |
Take Action: Tell Our Story! There will be a fourth bill from Congress to help our economy. Take two minutes to make sure your senators and representative know we need help. And send this link to everyone who will support us. |
Healthy Snack Activity Page Looking for a few new activity pages for your child care provider, center, or afterschool program? Check out these fun pages matching pasta shapes and coloring the rainbow! |
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