Using the USDA Online Food Buying Guide

Course Description

This online training provides CACFP Operators information on using the USDA online FBG to determine how to credit food items and recipes to the meal patterns and how to determine how much food to purchase to provide the minimum serving sizes required. In addition, the final section of this online course provides guidance on the required documentation CACFP Operators must maintain to demonstrate CACFP meal pattern compliance during an administrative review.

• Course Number: 459
• Training Length: 1 hour
• Certificate: Yes
• Target Audience: CACFP Operators
• Mandatory: No
• Cost: Free
• Date Recorded: October 2020

Online Course

Begin the CACFP Meal Pattern Compliance–Part Two: Using the USDA Online FBG course.

A transcript for the online course is available on the California Department of Education (CDE) Transcript: Using the USDA Food Buying Guide web page.

Referenced Resources

• USDA FBG for Child Nutrition Programs (CNP) web page
  
  
• USDA Crediting Handbook for CACFP Operators (PDF)
  
  
• CDE FBG Calculator web page
  
  
• USDA Exhibit A: Grain Requirements for CNPs table (PDF)
  
  
• Institute of Child Nutrition Child Nutrition Recipe Box Recipes for Child Care web page
  
  
• CDE Crediting Grains Using Ounce Equivalencies web page
  
  
• CDE Daily Menu with Serving Sizes for Multiple Age Groups template (Form ID 89)
  To access this document, log on to the Child Nutrition Information and Payment System (CNIPS) , select the Applications tab, and select Download Forms.
  
  
• CDE Weekly Menu with Serving Sizes for One Age Group template (Form ID 90)
  To access this document, log on to CNIPS , select the Applications tab, and select Download Forms.
  
  
• CDE Management Bulletin CACFP 01-2020, Documentation Requirements for the CACFP web page
  
  
• CDE CACFP Checklist of Documentation Requirements by Timeframes for Centers (Form ID 82)
  To access this document, log on to CNIPS , select the Applications tab, and select Download Forms.
  

Crediting

• Crediting: 1 hour

• Key Area: Nutrition (1000)
  • Training Topic: Menu Planning (1100)
    • Learning Objective: Plan menus that meet USDA nutrition requirements for reimbursable meals, including calculating meal components (1110)

For more information on crediting, access the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) web document Professional Standards Learning Objectives (PDF)

Contact Us

For technical difficulties, please contact the Education and Nutrition Policy–Community Unit by phone at 800-952-5609, Option 5. For questions regarding the content of this course, please contact the CACFP Meal Patterns Team by email at CACFPmealpatterns@cde.ca.gov.