Other Resources
Wellness Policies/Best Practices
- Good, Better, and Best Food Choices: Guide that can help you choose healthy foods reimbursable under the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
- Weekly Menu Checklist: Checklist that helps you to ensure that your weekly menu provides plenty of protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals for growing children, while limiting saturated fat, sugar, and sodium (salt).
Food Safety
Farm to Preschool
- Georgia Organics Farm to Preschool
- Farm to Preschool: Explains Farm to Preschool and provides resources on starting a Farm to Preschool program.
- Local Food Guide: Guide to farms, farmers markets, community gardens and kitchens, and other grocers/restaurants in Georgia.
- Harvest Calendar: Provides information about the harvest months for fruits and vegetables grown in Georgia.
- National Farm to Preschool: Provides information about Farm to Preschool resources, policy, news and events, and success stories.
- Fruits and Veggies Galore: Helping Kids Eat More: Team Nutrition resource developed for school food service professionals. Book provides tips on planning, purchasing, protecting, preparing, presenting, and promoting fruits and vegetables. Information can be altered to better fit the preschool environment.
- Grow It, Try It, Like It! Curriculum: Garden-themed nutrition education kits for child care center staff that introduces children to three fruits and three vegetables through hands-on activities and lesson plans.
Family Resources
- Loving Your Family Feeding Their Future: Book that discusses developing a plan for a healthy family, making healthier habits, and why good nutrition is essential for the entire family.
- We Can! A Parent Handbook: Book that reports why a healthy weight is important, how to encourage a healthy weight, what energy balance is, food choices, portion size, physical activity, and screen time.
Menu Planning and Recipes:
- National Food Service Management Institute, Menu Planning: Provides multiple sets of four week cycle menus and lessons about planning healthy meals and snacks.
- USDA Recipes for Child Care: Book provides information on CACFP reimbursable meals, adjusting recipes, nutrient analysis, and storage, preparation, and cooking tips.
- Wisconsin Team Nutrition: Meal Planning Guide with 16 weeks on menus, 120 CACFP-reimbursable menus, and eight shopping lists of items needed for every two-week menu cycle.
- FNCS Recipe Box: A collection of quick, delicious, cost-effective recipes for every type of cook.
Food Allergies