Meal Patterns
Breakfast Meal Pattern
Select All three Components for a Reimbursable Meal
| 1 milk | 1 cup | fluid milk |
| 1 fruit/vegetable | 1/2 cup | juice,1 and/or vegetable |
| 1 grains/bread 2 |
1 slice 1 serving 3/4 cup 1/2 cup 1/2 cup |
bread or cornbread or biscuit or roll or muffin or cold dry cereal or hot cooked cereal or pasta or noodles or grains |
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1 Fruit or vegetable juice must be full-strength.
2 Breads and grains must be made from whole-grain or enriched meal or flour. Cereal must be whole-grain or enriched or fortified.
Lunch or Supper Meal Pattern
Select All Four Components for a Reimbursable Meal
| 1 milk | 1 cup | fluid milk |
| 2 fruits/vegetables | 3/4 cup | juice,1 fruit and/or vegetable |
| 1 grains/bread2 |
1 slice 1 serving 1/2 cup 1/2 cup |
bread or cornbread or biscuit or roll or muffin or hot cooked cereal or pasta or noodles or grains |
| 1 meat/meat alternate |
2 oz. 2 oz. 2 oz. 1 large 1/2 cup 4 Tbsp. 1 oz. 8 oz. |
lean meat or poultry or fish 3 or alternate protein product or cheese or egg or cooked dry beans or peas or peanut or other nut or seed butter or nuts and/or seeds4 or yogurt 5 |
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1 Fruit or vegetable juice must be full-strength. Full strength vegetable or fruit juice may be counted to meet not more than one-half of this requirement.
2 Breads and grains must be made from whole-grain or enriched meal or flour. Cereal must be whole-grain or enriched or fortified.
3 A serving consists of the edible portion of cooked lean meat or poultry or fish.
4 Nuts and seeds may meet only one-half of the total meat/meat alternate serving and must be combined with another meat/meat alternate to fulfill the lunch or supper requirement.
5 Yogurt may be plain or flavored, unsweetened or sweetened.
Snack (Supplement) Meal Pattern
Select Two of the Four Components for a Reimbursable Snack
| 1 milk | 1 cup | >fluid milk |
| 1fruit/vegetable | 3/4 cup | juice,1 fruit and/or vegetable |
| 1 grains/bread2 |
1 slice 1 serving 3/4 cup 1/2 cup 1/2 cup |
bread or cornbread or biscuit or roll or muffin or cold dry cereal or hot cooked cereal or pasta or noodles or grains |
| 1 meat/meat alternate |
1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. 1/2 large 1/4 cup 2 Tbsp. 1 oz. 4 oz. |
lean meat or poultry or fish3 or alternate protein product or cheese or egg or cooked dry beans or peas or peanut or other nut or seed butter or nuts and/or seeds or yogurt 4 |
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1 Fruit or vegetable juice must be full-strength. Juice cannot be served when milk is the only other snack component.
2 Breads and grains must be made from whole-grain or enriched meal or flour. Cereal must be whole-grain or enriched or fortified.
3 A serving consists of the edible portion of cooked lean meat or poultry or fish.
4 Yogurt may be plain or flavored, unsweetened or sweetened.