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Meal Pattern Minute: Milk Smoothies at Snack
Can a milk and fruit smoothie be served as the only item at snack?
Meal Pattern Minute: Quick Breads
Are quick breads considered grain-based desserts?
Meal Pattern Minute: Meals for Supervising Adults
In family style meal service, are meals consumed by supervising adults reimbursable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Flavored Milk
Is there a sugar limit when serving flavored milk to ages 6 and older?
Meal Pattern Minute: Seconds at At-Risk Afterschool Sites
Can second servings be reimbursed for at-risk afterschool programs?
Meal Pattern Minute: At-Risk Afterschool
How many CACFP meal types can be reimbursed when serving at-risk afterschool programs?
Meal Pattern Minute: Zucchini Bread
Can zucchini bread credit towards the vegetable component?
Meal Pattern Minute: Apple Cider Juice
Is apple cider juice creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Brown Rice Noodles
Are brown rice noodles creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Second Servings in Family Style Dining
Can second servings be claimed for reimbursement in family style dining?
Meal Pattern Minute: Popped Sorghum
Is popped sorghum creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Crediting Tempeh
How does tempeh credit in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Tempeh
Is tempeh creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Queso Fresco
Is queso fresco creditable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: Gluten-Free Whole Grains
Are there any grains that are both gluten free and whole grain-rich?
Meal Pattern Minute: Gluten
What is gluten?
Meal Pattern Minute: Plantains
Are plantains credited as a fruit or a vegetable in the CACFP?
Meal Pattern Minute: CACFP Funds for a Garden
Can CACFP funds be used for supplies for an edible garden?