Menu Planning and Recipes

Recipes for Healthy Kids: Cookbook for Child Care Centers

• The recipes in this cookbook feature foods both children and adults should consume more of: dark green and orange vegetables, dry beans and peas, and whole grains. All of these healthy recipes are low in total fat, saturated fat, sugar and sodium.

Recipes for Healthy Kids: Cookbook for Homes

• This is the same set of recipes mentioned above but offered in smaller quantities for home settings.

Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

• The Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs has all of the current information in one manual to help provider and their purchasing agent 1) buy the right amount of food and the appropriate type of food for their program(s), and 2) determine the specific contribution each food makes toward the meal pattern requirements.