Check out this easy-to-use menu planner and recipe booklet for Child and Adult Care Food Program operators who provide breakfast meals for children 3–18 years of age.
These resources are periodically updated to reflect changes to the CACFP and highlight new resources available for households.
The Crediting Handbook for the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a technical assistance resource designed to assist CACFP operators in planning menus that meet the USDA meal pattern requirements.
Program operators that provide snacks for children 3–18 years of age can get menu planning tips and recipes.
Learn more about providing meals and snacks for toddlers in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
This handbook specifically focuses on plans for institutions (independent centers and sponsoring organizations) to conduct organized and fiscally responsible operations of the CACFP management plans outline the institution’s policies and procedures for administering and monitoring its own operations and those of its sponsored facilities.
The CACFP helps institutions and facilities serve well-balanced, nutritious meals to the participants in their care and this handbook provides details for administering the CACFP.
The At-Risk Afterschool Meals component of the Child and Adult Care Food Program offers federal funding to Afterschool Programs that serve a meal or snack to children in low-income areas.
A Child and Adult Care Food Program handbook.
This handbook specifically focuses on CACFP operations by an independent child care center.