Making Smarter Choices: Meal Patterns and Menu Planning

1. Making Smarter Choices: Meal Patterns and Menu Planning

2. The Components Component = Food Group (sort of…)

3. Milk • Cow’s milk • Lactose-free or lactose-reduced milk • Buttermilk • Kefir / cultured milk • UHT shelf-stable milk • Plain or flavored

4. Milk Low-fat (1%) or fat-free (skim) milk for all participants ages 2 years and older

5. Milk Whole milk for children ages 12 - 23 months (1 year) only

6. Milk

7. Milk • Yogurt, cheese, & other dairy products cannot substitute for milk • Evaporated milk, dry milk, and condensed milk do not count • Milk used for cooking does not count toward the requirement

8. Milk Substitutes • Kikkoman Pearl Smart Creamy Vanilla • Kikkoman Pearl Smart Chocolate • Pacific Natural Foods Ultra Soy Plain • Pacific Natural Foods Ultra Soy Vanilla • 8th Continent Original

9. Milk Substitutes • Without special documentation, do NOT serve: • Silk Soy Milk • Almond Milk • Rice Milk • Hemp Milk • Etc., etc., etc.

10. Other Dairy Products