A CACFP Meal Pattern Guide is a 1 hour online course designed to provide applicable meal service training for providers participating in the CACFP.
Support:
This course is self-paced, not instructor led.
Requirements:
Access to the Internet and a valid email address.
Format:
This course requires no face-to-face classroom instruction. It will be available via the course web site. You will complete the course whenever it is most convenient for you. You may work on the course at any time of the day or night on any day of the week. This course is estimated to take 1 hour or less to complete. The course web site will track the completion of each lesson and assignment. You will be able to exit the course without completing it and pick up where you left off at any time.
Learning objectives:
Identify the food components that make up a creditable CACFP meal
Recognize the meal patterns used for each CACFP meal type
Distinguish between the serving sizes required for various CACFP participant age groups
Understand how to determine whether a food is creditable or not
Means of developing competencies:
Online presentations with voice narration and interactivity
Online resources available through internet links
Quiz
Course completion requirements:
In order to complete this course successfully, you must complete all of the course assignments and pass the quiz.
WORKBOOK
Click the image below to open the workbook. You may view the workbook online or if possible, we recommend that you print the workbook and use it to take notes with a pen or pencil during the lesson presentation. The workbook has a button called Request Edit Access that you should ignore, as that button is just for administrators.