Menu Lab: Building Variety with Familiar Foods

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Exclusive to NCA Members-only | FREE
Earn a certificate for 0.5 CEU, Specialty 2

Introducing Menu Lab! A new member-exclusive series designed to help you build stronger CACFP menus through hands-on learning.

Think variety means serving completely different foods every day? Think again! Menu variety can be achieved by offering familiar foods in new ways through different preparations, flavors, textures, and shapes. From apple slices to applesauce or burritos to burrito bowls, small changes can create appealing menus while supporting CACFP meal pattern requirements. Participants will update a menu alongside the presenter and discover simple strategies to add variety without increasing costs or complexity. 

1. Identify practical strategies for incorporating menu variety using the same foods prepared, served, or presented in different ways.  

2. Apply CACFP meal pattern requirements to modify a menu and enhance variety through a live, interactive menu-planning activity.

Presented By:
Isabel Ramos-Lebron, MS, RDN, LD
Senior Nutrition Education Specialist
National CACFP Association

This webinar offers real-time, live captions that are available in Spanish and 34 other languages.