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USDA New Meal Pattern

USDA New Meal Pattern. Offer vs. serve and Point of service. The webinar will start at 9:00am. Please leave your phone lines muted (red). All communication will be handled through the “chat” feature. . Polling Question. How many of you currently participate in offer vs. serve? . Overview.

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USDA New Meal Pattern

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  1. USDA New Meal Pattern Offer vs. serve and Point of service The webinar will start at 9:00am. Please leave your phone lines muted (red). All communication will be handled through the “chat” feature.

  2. Polling Question How many of you currently participate in offer vs. serve?

  3. Overview • Offer vs. serve continues to be mandated at secondary level • and optional at lower grade levels. • The Dietary Guidelines stress the importance of increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables. • The final rule requires that the reimbursable lunch selected by a student includes a fruit or a vegetable for SY 2012-2013. At breakfast, this requirement is effective in SY 2014-2015, when the fruit quantities for breakfast are required to increase.

  4. Lunch • Must offer 5 food components: • Milk • Fruits • Vegetables • Grains • Meat/Meat Alternates • Students may decline as many as two food components. • Student must select at least ½ cup of either a fruit or vegetable. The minimum creditable amount of a individual fruit or vegetable is 1/8 cup to counts towards the minimum ½ cup. • The full component serving size must be offered to the student. This means students must walk away from the point of service with at least ½ cup of fruit or vegetable!

  5. Lunch Example Grades 9-12 Offered to students in full serving sizes: Sandwich- Bread and Meat Broccoli-1 Cup Apple-1 Cup Milk- 1% White Student takes-Reimbursable? Student takes-Reimbursable? Yes: No: Maybe?

  6. Point of Service • Staff must be trained to judge accurately the quantities of self-serve items on a students tray to identify the ½ cup fruit/vegetable servings: • Spoodles and portioning spoons • Souffle cups • In the past, as long as the correct portion size was planned and available, students were not mandated to take all of the portion size. Now they must take a minimum of ½ cup fruit or vegetable. Example: Not acceptable: Acceptable:

  7. Opportunity to Select • Current • Suggested new POS POS

  8. Polling Question How many of you have menus or signs posted in the cafeteria identifying what you are having for lunch?

  9. Identification of Food Items • You must identify at or near the beginning of the serving line the food items that contribute to the unit-priced reimbursable meals. Food items means specific foods offered within the five food components. ODE plans to offer assistance with this…stay tuned.

  10. Requirements for Lunch Period Existing Regulation: Lunch must be served between 10am and 2pm. New Regulation: Adequate lunch periods What does adequate mean? Schools should provide sufficient lunch periods that are long enough to give all students adequate time to be served and to eat their lunches.

  11. Questions & Answers

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