The Food Buying Guide is the essential resource for food yield information for all child nutrition programs. The Food Buying Guide helps to decide how much food should be purchased and the correct amounts of food used in child nutrition programs. It will also determine the contribution each food makes toward the meal pattern requirements.
The Food Buying Guide is what the State Department uses when a review is conducted to ensure enough quantity of food is being served. This training will help the learner understand how to use this guide.