CHILD MEAL PATTERN
Snack
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Food Components and Food Items' | Ages 1-2 ‘Ages 3-5 Ages 6-12 ‘Ages 13-18°
Fluid Mille 4 fluid ounces | 4 fluid ounces | 8 fluid ounces | 8 fluid ounces
Meat/meat alternates
‘Lean meat, poultry, or fish Younce Younce ounce. ounce,
eae raed % ounce % ounce ‘Lounce Lounce
Cheese % ounce % ounce J ounce ounce
Large egg he Ke Ye h
Cooked dry beans or peas Yecup ‘4 cup. Yecup cup
Peanut butter or soy nut
butter or other nut or seed ‘1 tbsp 1 tbsp 2 tbsp 2 tbsp
butters
‘Yogurt, plain or flavored 2 ounces or Zounces or ounces or 4 ounces or
unsweetened or sweetened” Meup Moup Yeup Keup
Peels So Nw, tree outs, ‘ounce % ounce lounce Tounce
or seeds
\Vegetables* Yeoup. Ys cup % cup Xoup.
Fruits® Youp cup cup % cup
Grains (oz eq)"*
Whole grain-rich or
enriched bres Hslice wslice 1 slice 1slice
Whole grain-rich or enriched
bread product, such as % serving % serving 1 serving serving
biscuit, roll or muffin
Whole grain-rich, enriched
or fortified cooked breakfast cup weup %oup Yeup
cereal’, cereal grain, and/or pasta
Whole grain-rich, enriched
or fortified ready-to-eat
breakfast cereal (dry, cold)"
Flakes or rounds cup Yeup Leup cup
Puffed cereal ‘%eup ‘% cup 1% cup 1 %eup
Granola, Ye cup ‘A cup cup cup
‘Select wo of the five components for areimbarsable snack. Only one ofthe wo Components may bea Beverage.
2 Larger portion sizes than specified may need to be served to children 13 through 18 years old to meet their nutritional
needs
* Must be unlavored whole milk for children age one. Must be unflavored low-fat(1 percent) or unflavored fat-free
(skim) milk for children two through five years old, Must be unflavored low-fat (1 percent), unflavored fat-free (skim), or
flavored fat-free (skrm) milk for children sx years ol and older.
4 Ahterate protein products must meet the requirements in Appendix A to Par 226,
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