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Food
and Nutrition Resource List for Child Care and
Preschool Staff
September 2004
This publication is a compilation of resources for people involved in the child care profession. It includes food and nutrition education print materials, audiovisuals, and other resources for child care and classroom use. Topics covered are general nutrition, food preparation, and food safety. Teaching materials for children and adults include: food models, games, kits, videocassettes, CD’s and lesson plans. Opinions expressed in the publications do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Materials which are part of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) collection have a call number. Lending and copy service information is provided at the end of this document. If you are not eligible for direct borrowing privileges, check with your local library on how to borrow materials through interlibrary loan with the NAL. Materials cannot be purchased from the NAL. Please contact the publisher /producer if you wish to purchase any materials on this list.
Table of Contents
Curriculums and Learning Activities for Teaching Children.. 3
Food Sets, Models and Posters.. 15
Resources for Staff Training..
20
A. Nutrition, Learning,
and Health..
20
B. Child and Adult Care Food Program 24
C. Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity to Young Children.. 26
G. Quality Child Care Environments.. 41
Guidelines for Borrowing from NAL 48
Curriculums and Learning Activities for Teaching Children
5-A-Day Bingo
CA: California Department of Health
Services, 2000.
Includes: Instructions, activities and
game cards
NAL Call Number: TX355 .A5
2000
Description: This bingo game is to assist children in
understanding how healthy it is to eat more fruits and vegetables a day.
5-A-Day Bingo encourages students to increase awareness of 5-A-Day and rewards
players for trying new produce items. This game can be used for all ages
and is a great way to introduce and reinforce the basic 5-A-Day concepts.
Available in English and Spanish.
Target audience: Classroom/
Community, all grades
Ordering Information:
Cancer Prevention and
Nutrition Section
California Department of Health Services
P.O. Box 942732
MS-662
Phone:
916-323-0594
Online ordering: http://www.shop5adaycatalog.com/acatalog/Games.html
5 A Day Fruit & Vegetable Coloring Book
Laurie Manahan and
Katherine Furlan
Walla Walla, WA: Yummy Designs, 1995.
NAL Call
Number: jTX355.M36
1995
Description: This book contains simple drawings of
fruits and vegetables along with verses for young children. The large
pictures with big spaces for drawing are perfect for small hands to color.
Very little reading is required.
Target audience: Preschoolers
to 3rd grade
Ordering Information:
Laurie
Manahan
Walla Walla, WA
Phone:
888-749-8669
Email: laurie@ymmydesigns.com
5-A-Day Idea Kit: Initiatives for the Cafeteria, Classroom and Community
Using Multi-level Interventions
Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction, 1999.
NAL Call Number TX360 U6 F75
1999
Description: This kit is a teaching tool for encouraging children
to eat more fruits and vegetables as part of a high-fiber, low-fat eating
style. The lessons in this booklet are reproducible.
Target
audience: Children in grades K-5, after school day care, and similar
programs
5-A-Day, Let’s Eat and Play: A Nutrition Education Program for Preschool
Children
Judy Cooper and Penny Masur Levy
Florida NET
Program
Florida DOE and the Palm Beach County Health Department,
1998.
Includes: 10 lesson plans, 1 story book, 1 fruit/vegetable
spinner board, 1 sheet fruit necklace, 1 placemat, 2 sheets chef's
hat
Description: This nutrition education program for preschool
children contains 10 lesson plans designed to provide interactive learning
through a variety of activities. Art projects, cooking and tasting
awareness and intake of fruits and vegetables
Target audience: Food
Service Personnel in Elementary Schools
Ordering Information:
NFSMI
– The University of Mississippi
P.O. Drawer 188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
5-A-Day with Jack the Apple
Nancy Battista-Morgan
Evanston, IL:
United Learning, 1999.
Includes: Videocassette (11 min.), (VHS);
facilitator's guide and 7 hand-outs
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no.
2766
Web site: Blackline Masters http://video1.unitedstreaming.com/videos/Five%20a%20Day%20with%20Jack%20the%20Apple/693_BM.pdf
Description:
Teaches pre-school children the benefits of eating five servings of fruits and
vegetables a day. Features an animated character who visits children and teaches
them important eating habits.
Target Audience: Preschoolers 3-5
years old.
Ordering Information
Suite 100
Phone:
800-323-9084
Fax: 847-328-6706
Email: info@unitedlearning.com
The Adventures of Pete the Pyramid!
Standish, ME: Bonny Eagle
Television, 1998.
Includes: Videocassette (22 min., 45
sec.)(VHS)
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no.
2770
Description: Pete the Pyramid explains how the right food choices
from the food pyramid ensure good nutrition and health.
Target Audience:
Preschoolers
Breadtime Tales
Brinna Sands
Includes: 1
videocassette (30 min.) (VHS) and 1 activity guide
Huntington, NY: Kelvin
5400 Inc., 1994.
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no.
2098
Description: Children learn how to bake bread, how bread rises,
how wheat is harvested, how flour is milled, and how bread is made
professionally.
Captain 5-A-Day
Connecticut Departments of Public Health and Social
Services, 2001.
Includes: leader’s guide, poster, audiocassettes
(3), videotape, workbook, box of color-coded activity cards
NAL Call
Number: in process
Description: The Captain 5-A-Day
Adventure Box is a curriculum for preschool-3rd grade
classrooms. Captain 5-A-Day and his dog Boneso use music and movement,
crafts, tasting activities and take-home parent letters to encourage fruit and
vegetable intake, building strong bones and physical activity. The
Supermarket Smarts component targets parents and uses a video and workbook to
discuss shopping and budgeting for fruits and vegetables.
Target
audience: Preschool to 3rd grade
Ordering
Information:
Produce
for Better Health Foundation
Customer
Service
Phone:
888-391-2100
Fax: 302-894-1097
E-mail: mailto:customerservice@5aday.com
Online
ordering: http://www.shop5adaycatalog.com/acatalog/
Chef Combo’s Fantastic Adventures in Tasting and
Nutrition
Rosemont, IL: National Dairy Council, 1996.
Includes:
1 teacher guide (loose-leaf), sound cassette, 1 hand puppet, 1 bag of
stuffing, 1 pointer, 1 rubber stamp (2 pieces).
NAL Call Number: Kit
no. 508
Web site: http://www.nutritionexplorations.com/chef_combo.html
Description:
This curriculum teaches simple nutrition concepts, helps children develop
cleanliness skills, and provides children with a variety of cooking and tasting
experiences.
Target audience: 4- and 5-year olds
Ordering
Information:
National Dairy Council
Rosemont, IL
Phone:
847-803-2000
Fax: 847-803-2077
Choosing Foods with Jack the Apple Como Escoger la Comida con Juan
la...
Nancy Battista Morgan
Evanston, IL: United Learning,
1999.
NAL Call Number: Videocassette
no. 3066
Web site: Blackline Masters http://video1.unitedstreaming.com/videos/Choosing%20Foods%20with%20Jack%20the%20Apple/692_BM.pdf
Description:
This video teaches young children the benefits of healthy snacking. It
features an animated character who teaches them important eating habits. The
video is dubbed into Spanish and includes a guide in English.
Ordering
Information
Suite
100
Phone:
800-323-9084
Fax: 847-328-6706
Email: info@unitedlearning.com
Cook and create with young children
Jeane Dasso
Decatur, IL:
Central Illinois NET Center, 1993. 122 pp.
NAL Call Number: TX661.D37
1993
Description: Provides teachers with weekly nutrition projects
that help children in grades preschool through first grade recognize foods from
the five food groups and allow them to create healthy snacks for themselves.
Includes art activities, puppet patterns, and recipe picture cards.
Target
audience: Preschool and 1st grade
Cooking Up Concepts
Cambridge, MA: TLC Press, 2003. 24
pp.
Description: Developed for providers in booklet form to
teach good nutrition through cooking experiences integrated into early childhood
learning themes such as colors, shapes, an all-about-me theme, and
animals. Within the booklet is a training module that may be used to
satisfy USDA requirements for provider nutrition training. Check with your
sponsoring organization.
Target audience: Preschool
children.
Ordering Information:
Everyday TLC
Phone:
800-677-6644
Fax: 910-259-9561
Email: tlcft@earthlink.net
Online ordering: www.cookinguplearning.com
Cooking Up Health
Cambridge, MA: TLC Press, 2003. 24 pp.
Description: A booklet full of suggestions to help incorporate
healthy eating and fun physical activity into a child’s daily schedule.
Within the booklet is a training module that may be used to satisfy USDA requirements
for provider nutrition training. Check with your sponsoring organization.
Target audience: Preschool children.
Ordering Information:
Everyday TLC
Phone: 800-677-6644
Fax: 910-259-9561
Email: tlcft@earthlink.net
Online ordering: www.cookinguplearning.com
Cooking Up Stories
Cambridge, MA: TLC Press, 2003. 24
pp.
Description: This booklet uses children’s love of books and
cooking to teach and discuss good nutrition and eating habits.
Within the booklet is a training module that may be used to satisfy USDA
requirements for provider nutrition training. Check with your sponsoring
organization.
Target audience: Preschool
children.
Ordering Information:
Everyday TLC
Phone:
800-677-6644
Fax: 910-259-9561
Email: tlcft@earthlink.net
Online ordering: www.cookinguplearning.com
Cooking With Kids Makes Healthy Eaters
North Hollywood, CA: Alfred
Higgins Productions, 1999.
Includes: 1 videocassette (13
min.)(VHS)
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no.
2761
Description: Shows pre-schoolers to 2nd graders how to prepare
foods. Multicultural groups shown.
Target Audience: Preschoolers
to 2nd grade.
Creative Pockets – Leaning Adventures in Every Pocket! (Food Guide
Pyramid)
Creative Pockets, Inc.
Windermere, FL: Creative
Pockets, Inc., 2001.
Includes: One-size-fits-all apron, one set of
double-sided flash cards with interactive lessons.
NAL Call Number:
Kit no. 411
Description: This Kit contains a
one-size-fits-all Apron with pockets and 17 colorful Teaching Tools which have
lessons and fun activities about the nutritional needs which children should be
learning today for a healthier life tomorrow...from basic food groups to
servings to manners to menu planning and many more!
Target audience:
Teachers and parents
Ordering Information:
Creative Pockets
Inc.
Phone: 866-427-7667
Email: deedee@creativepockets.com
Detective Mike Robe's fantastic journey: a food safety and quality program
for Head Start preschoolers
West Kingston, RI: Food Science and Nutrition
Department, University of Rhode Island, 1996.
Includes: 1
videocassette (VHS) and 1 manual
NAL Call Number: Kit no.
320
Description: The project is a redesign of the elementary school
food safety program of the same name to a curricula designed for preschoolers
and children in kindergarten and first grade. Brochures and other
materials that are recommended for use are not included with the kit. Also
includes a one hour food safety education program for parents.
Target
audience: Preschoolers
Eating Fruits and Vegetables Activity Book or Comiendo Frutas y
Vegetales
Walla Walla, WA: Yummy Designs, 2002.
NAL Call
Number: In process
Description: This activity booklet may be
used as a coloring book or as a story book to encourage five fruits and
vegetables each day. Lessons may be used alone or as an accompaniment to
lessons on topics such as 5-A-Day, nutrition, healthy eating, farming, plant
growth, gardening, or cooking. Suggested settings are in schools, Head
Start, WIC, Health fairs, waiting rooms, farmers market, or Extension
offices. This booklet is available in both English and
Spanish.
Target audience: Preschoolers to 6th
grade
Ordering Information:
Laurie
Manahan
Walla Walla, WA
Phone:
888-749-8669
Email: laurie@ymmydesigns.com
Food and Me: An Integrated Approach to Teaching Nutrition: Teacher's Kit,
Pre-K and Kindergarten
Jefferson City, MO: Scholastic, 1995.
Includes: 1 teacher's guide, 1 booklet of duplicating masters, 30 identical
student magazines, 2 posters, and 1 booklet of newsletters
NAL Call Number: Kit no. 334
Description: Contains activities designed to cover broad nutrition issues
and help lay a foundation for learning about healthy food choices.
The Food Friends
Colorado Nutrition Network
Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University, 2003.
Includes: Set of seven puppets, memory card games, puzzle, large
picture cards, activity pads, placemats, posters, containers with beans, teacher
training video and magnets. A parent component includes a binder and CD,
magnets, a shopping list and Ollie Orange cookie cutter.
NAL Call Number: in process
Description: A social marketing campaign aimed at increasing preschool-aged
children’s willingness to try new foods. The 12-week program consists
of hands-on nutrition education activities, reading storybooks with a “try new
foods: theme, and opportunities to try novel foods”.
Ordering Information:
Colorado State University, Dept. FSHN
Phone: 970-491-1305
Email: bellows@cahs.colostate.edu
The Food Guide Pyramid for Young Children
John Colgren, Paul Fuqua
and Myrna Traylor
Evanston, IL: United Learning, 2000.
NAL Call Number:
Videocassette
no. 3055
Web site: Blackline Masters http://video1.unitedstreaming.com/videos/Food%20Guide%20Pyramid%20For%20Young%20Children/1225_BM.pdf
Description:
Based on the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid for Young Children, this production
demonstrates how to make the best food choices for children aged two to six
years old. All the food groups are fully illustrated and numerous examples are
given illustrating those groups and showing the correct portions. This
production is ideal for use either as a presentation tool with audiences or for
individual instruction. Duplication masters are also included, letting you
provide your students with appropriate take-home material. 12-min. Video;
Teacher’s Guide with lesson plans, student activities, discussion questions, and
script, set of Blackline Masters.
Ordering
Information:
United Learning
Suite 100
Phone:
800-323-9084
Fax: 847-328-6706
Email: info@unitedlearning.com
The Foods I Eat, the Foods You Eat
New York, NY: Many Hands Media,
1996.
Includes: 1 sound cassette, 2 wall charts, 1 poster, 3 books,
and 1 teacher's guide
NAL Call Number: Kit no. 355
Description:
A multicultural nutrition program designed to encourage young children to
explore and appreciate the foods of many cultures while learning such concepts
as colors, shapes, and textures.
Target audience:
Preschoolers
Getting a Head Start with 5-A-Day Fun Kit: Fruit and Vegetable Activities,
Materials and Resources for Preschool Children and Their Families
Dayle
Hayes
Helena, MT: Montana Dept. of Public Health & Human Services,
1995.
Includes: 1 videocassette and 1 set instructional
materials
NAL Call Number: Kit no. 350
Description: The
activities, materials and resources in this kit are designed to encourage young
children and their families to eat more fruits and vegetables.
Getting Active with Jack the Apple
Nancy Battista- Morgan
Evanston, IL: United Learning, 1999.
Includes: Videocassette (11
min.)(VHS), 1 facilitator's guide, and 3 hand-outs
NAL Call Number:
Videocassette no. 2762
Description: Teaches pre-school children the
basics of good nutrition. Features an animated character who visits children and
teaches them important health habits. Available in English and
Spanish.
Ordering Information
United
Learning
Suite
100
Phone:
800-323-9084
Fax: 847-328-6706
Email: info@unitedlearning.com
Hands Down on Germs
Oregon. Dept. of Education. PPS Television
Services.
Portland, OR: The Dept., 1996.
Includes: Videocassette
(8 min.)(VHS)
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no. 2806
Description: Shows children the situations in which hands need to be
washed. Also demonstrates proper hand washing techniques to make hands germ
free.
Heartpower
Dallas, TX: American Heart Association, Schoolsite
Program, 1996.
Includes: 1 sound cassette, 3 posters, 1 book with
sing-along music and lyrics, 1 book, 2 stethoscopes, 1 package alcohol swabs, 8
activity cards, and 1 teacher's resource book.
NAL Call Number: Kit
no. 360
Description: Teaches about the heart and how to keep it
healthy.
Target audience: Preschool and kindergarten
Join the Fruit & Vegetable Party Activity Book
Laurie
Manahan
Walla Walla, WA: Yummy Designs, 2000.
NAL Call
Number: In process
Description: This book is full of
hundreds of creative, fun ideas and activities for promoting fruits and
vegetables. The book includes fruit and vegetable lessons, programs,
songs, jokes, stories, and games.
Target audience: Pre-K
to adults
Ordering Information:
Laurie
Manahan
Walla Walla, WA
Phone:
888-749-8669
Email: laurie@ymmydesigns.com
Kid’s First Cookbook: Delicious Nutritious Treats to Make
Yourself!
American Cancer Society
Atlanta, GA: Health Content Products
Publishing Group, 2000. 88pp.
NAL Call Number: In
process
Description: This book contains activities, recipes and
cooking tips to help turn meal preparation into a family activity.
Promotes healthy food choices from the Food Guide Pyramid and reviews kitchen
safety; recipes include breakfast, snacks, meals, drinks, pizza, and goodies
with a suggested level of difficulty.
Target audience: Parents, and
childcare providers
Ordering Information:
ACS Products,
Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Phone: 800-ACS-2345
Online ordering:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PUB/content/PUB_1_1_Kids_First_Cookbook.asp#Order
Let’s Play: Innovative Games and Activities for Kids
West
Virginia Dept of Education, Office of Child Nutrition, 2002.
113pp.
NAL Call Number: RA776.9.L48
2002
Description: A collection of games and activities requiring easy
to-find materials. The games and activities are designed to help
educators, parents and other promote healthful behaviors in young
children.
Target audience: Classroom/ Community, Elementary
Schools
Ordering Information:
West Virginia Department of
Education
Phone:
800-982-5627
Little Organ Annie
Michelle A. Lombardo
Duluth, GA:
Wellness Incorporated, 2003.
Includes: 1 large Organ Annie doll,
removable OrganWise Guy’s dolls (Luigi Liver, Hardy Heart, Peri Stolic, Pepto
the Stomach, Windy, Peter Pancreas, The Kidney Brothers)
NAL Call
Number: In process
Description: Organ Annie is a
teaching tool for showing children ages 3-8 how to be smart from the inside
out.
Ordering Information:
Wellness
Incorporated
Phone:
800-786-1730
Email: organwise@aol.com
Online ordering: www.organwiseguys.com
More Than Mud Pies: A Nutrition Education Curriculum for 3 to 5 Year Olds
in Day Care Centers and Preschools. 3rd Edition
Charlotte
Beckett Oakley
University, MS: National Food Service Management Institute,
1998. 163 pp.
NAL Call Number: TX364.0355
1998
Description: The nutrition education lessons teach children such
concepts as the importance of eating a wide variety of foods; how to identify
foods by group, source, part of the plant, where grown, where purchased, or
nutritional content; how to describe foods in terms of color, size, smell,
texture, temperature, taste and form; and how to stay healthy by exercising
regularly, eating nutritious foods and drinking plenty of water.
Target
audience: Child care and preschool children
Ordering
Information:
Publications Department
NFSMI – The
P.O.
Drawer 188
Phone:
800-321-3054 or 662-915-7658
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
Online ordering: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
The OrganWise Guys “Gimme Five”
Duluth, GA: Wellness
Incorporated, 2002.
Includes: Videocassette (13 min.)
(VHS)
NAL Call Number: In process.
Description: “Gimme
Five” conveys the concept of 5-a-day to kids in a fun, musical and memorable
story. In this story, Hardy Heart overcomes his stage fright to put on a
rocking 5-a-day show that kids will sing over and over again.
Ordering
Information:
Wellness
Incorporated
Phone:
800-786-1730
Email: organwise@aol.com
Online ordering: www.organwiseguys.com
The OrganWise Guys (The First Years Series) It’s a Teethday
Party!
Michelle Lombardo
Duluth, GA: Wellness
Incorporated, 2002.
NAL Call Number: In
process.
Description: “The First Years Series” is designed to
reach children from three to five years of age with fun stories they can enjoy
while learning important health lessons for life. In this book, It’s a
Teethday Party! Hardy Heart is having a problem. He wants to tell his good
friend Calci M. Bone that she has bad breath. He knows he should tell her for
her own good, but he just doesn’t have the heart to say anything that would hurt
her feelings! Thank goodness his teacher, Miss Brushalot, has an idea - A
classroom, “Teethday” Party! Not only will Calci and the other kids learn about
dental health, they’ll also have lots of fun! Come join in the
party!
Ordering Information:
Wellness
Incorporated
Phone:
800-786-1730
Email: organwise@aol.com
Online ordering: www.organwiseguys.com
Show Me Nutrition: Let’s Read
Barbara
Willenberg
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Outreach and Extension,
2000.
NAL Call Number: TX364
.W55 2000
Description: Let’s Read is a preschool
nutrition education curriculum. It consists of six lessons which incorporate
reading books with positive nutrition messages, tasting healthy foods, physical
activities and practicing healthy habits like hand washing.
Ordering
information:
Dana McGuire, Nutrition Education
Assistant
111
W. Main
Phone:
417-967-4545
Email: mcguirede@missouri.edu
Smart Nutrition Classroom Activities: Preschool
Child
Nutrition Unit, Arkansas Department of Education, 2001. (various
pagings).
NAL Call Number: TX364 B395 2001
Description:
This resource is designed to help build healthful eating patterns and to
promote personal responsibility for good health. There are sections for
pre-K to 6th grade. And includes booklets: Nutrition and your health: dietary
guidelines for Americans. 2000. 5th ed.; Tips for using the Food Guide Pyramid
for young children 2 to 6 years old. 1999. It integrates the following three
messages in grade-level activities: aim for fitness, build a healthy base,
choose sensibly. Nutritional concepts are combined with basic curriculum
objectives in each grade level to create a higher level of learning in the
classroom.
Ordering Information:
Wanda
Shockey
Child Nutrition Unit
2020 West Third,
Phone:
501-324-9505
Tickle Your Appetite
Alexandria, VA: USDA Food and
Nutrition Service, 1997.
NAL Call Number: Kit no.
500
Description: Tickle your appetite works to convey a number of
messages including, helping children expand the variety of foods in their diet,
adding more fruits, vegetables and grains to the foods children already eat and
gradually begin to adopt a diet lower in fat for children age 2 to 5
years. The kit is intended for clinic use, but also includes a
section on family at home activities and community activities.
Target
audience: Child care center staff
Ordering Information:
NFSMI –
The University of Mississippi
P.O. Drawer 188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
What We Eat
Evanston, IL: United Learning,
1996.
Includes: Videocassette (15 min.)(VHS) with black and
white sequences
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no.
2774
Description: Puppets that travel around the world making friends
and trying different kinds of food teach kids the basic food
groups.
Target Audience: Preschoolers to 3rd
grade
Ordering Information
Suite 100
Phone:
800-323-9084
Fax: 847-328-6706
Email: info@unitedlearning.com
Yummy Fruit & Vegetable Game
Laurie Manahan
Walla Walla,
WA: Yummy Designs, 1999.
Includes: 10 boards, 80 cards,
Fruit & Vegetable Lesson Book (16 lessons, 1 page each)
NAL Call
Number: In process
Description: This is a game to
promote fruits & vegetables and ‘5 A Day’ to young children. Children
pick fruit and vegetable cards, then try t match them to the pictures on their
boards with the objective of covering all 5 boxes and thus getting ‘5 A
Day’. 80 cards show familiar and ethnic fruits and vegetables; 10
different boards each have 5 different boxes (for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and
2 snacks). Also includes a Fruit & Vegetable Lesson Book, with
gradated, easy to use lessons for Pre-K-Grade 4. This game can be played
by 1-10 players, groups, teams, or classes. Instructions suggest many
additional activities and games, including Lotto and Bingo.
Ordering
Information:
Laurie Manahan
P.O. Box 1851
Walla Walla,
WA99362
Phone: 888-749-8669
Email: laurie@ymmydesigns.com
American Foods of the South Set
Ft. Atkinson, WI: NASCO, 1980
Includes: Life/form replicas; 10 plastic models including barbecued
chicken, black-eyed peas, collard greens with salt pork, corn bread, diced
turnips with tops, grits, hush puppies, lima beans with salt pork, pan-fried
catfish, roasted spareribs.
NAL Call Number: Model no.
6
Description: This package of food models contains 10 models of foods
of the American South. The models are teaching aids for demonstrating the
variety of foods used to prepare authentic ethnic dishes.
Ordering
Information:
NASCO - Fort Atkinson
901 Janesville
Avenue
Fort Atkinson, WI
Phone:
800-558-9595
Fax: 920-563-8296
Item no. WA19637HR
Online
ordering: http://www.enasco.com/
Child Care Centers Fight Bac!
Alexandria, VA: United States
Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, 2001.
Web
site: http://www.nal.usda.gov/childcare/Safety/BAC%20Childcare%20Poster.pdf
Description:
A poster with reproducible materials on the back to help teach young
children about the importance of safe food practices.
Children’s Nutrition Kit – Ages 1-3
Ft. Atkinson, WI:
NASCO
Includes: A 4-oz. glass of whole milk, 1-oz. slice of
American cheese, macaroni and cheese, bologna, 1-oz. bagel, peas, corn, half
banana, 4 oz. apple juice, applesauce, oatmeal, 1/2 English muffin, white rice,
three graham crackers, dab of peanut butter (1 tablespoon), sliced chicken,
4-oz. orange juice, 1/4 cup mashed potatoes and 8 animal
crackers.
Description: Serving portions in this kit are age
appropriate for children age 1-3 years.
Ordering
Information:
NASCO - Fort Atkinson
901 Janesville
Avenue
Fort Atkinson, WI
Phone:
800-558-9595
Fax: 920-563-8296
Item no. WA16564HR
Online
ordering: http://www.enasco.com/
Children’s Nutrition – Ages 4-10
Ft. Atkinson, WI:
NASCO
Includes: An 8 oz. glass of whole milk, fried egg, celery
stick, orange, soda crackers, strawberries, Cream of Wheat, raisins, hot dog and
bun, brownie, grape/cranberry juice, spaghetti and sauce, chocolate ice cream,
fish sticks, green beans, turkey, string cheese, and
carrots.
Description: Serving portions in this kit are age
appropriate for children ages 4-10 years.
Ordering
Information:
NASCO - Fort Atkinson
901 Janesville
Avenue
Fort Atkinson, WI
Phone:
800-558-9595
Fax: 920-563-8296
Item no. WA19456HR
Online
ordering: http://www.enasco.com/
Comparison
Cards, 5th edition
Rosemont, IL: National Dairy Council,
1994.
Includes: 108 charts and 1 leader's guide
NAL Call
Number: Graphic no. 312
Description: Bar graphs indicate the
nutrient values of many commonly eaten foods. Back of each card indicates daily
value of each food on fat content.
Ordering
Information:
Western Dairy Council
12000
North Washington Suite
200
Phone:
303 451-7711, 800 274-6455
Fax: 303
451-0411
Online ordering: http://www.wdairycouncil.com/htmlpages/ordermaterials4thru6.htm
Food Models
Rosemont, IL: National Dairy
Council, 1994.
Includes: 45 activity cards and 1 leader's guide
NAL Call Number: Graphic no. 319
Description: The cards
contain life-size color photographs of 185 commonly eaten foods. The front of
each card shows foods in their recommended serving size; the back contains
information similar to that found on food labels. The photographs may be punched
out of each card.
Food Replica Package No. 1
Ft. Atkinson,
WI: NASCO, 1980.
Includes: Life/form replicas; 36 plastic models
including Meat: seafood, poultry, pork chop, hamburger, haddock, fried egg,
hard-cooked egg, chicken leg, chicken thigh, chicken breast. Vegetables:
broccoli, carrot sticks, frozen peas, baked potato, sweet potato, tomato juice,
salad. Grains: bread, hamburger bun, cornflakes, rice. Fruit: 1/2 banana, 1/2
grapefruit, orange juice, orange, canned peaches, whole peaches, raisins,
strawberries. Desserts: angel food cake, jello, chocolate pudding. Dairy
products: butter, cottage cheese, swiss cheese, skim milk. Miscellaneous:
dressing, peanut butter.
NAL Call Number: Model no.
3
Description: This package of food models includes a wide variety of
food items.
Ordering Information:
NASCO - Fort
Atkinson
901 Janesville Avenue
Fort
Atkinson, WI
Phone:
800-558-9595
Fax: 920-563-8296
Item no. WA02986HR
Online
ordering: http://www.enasco.com/
Food Replica
Package No. 2
Ft. Atkinson, WI: NASCO, 1980.
Includes:
Life/form replicas; 30 plastic models including Meat, seafood, poultry: bacon
strips (2), ham, beef patty, liver, bologna, wiener, tuna, steak. Sandwiches,
soup, casseroles: chili, bread and peanut butter, vegetable soup, spaghetti.
Vegetables: asparagus, baked beans, green beans, beets, mashed potatoes, whole
kernel corn, tomato juice. Grains: graham crackers, soda crackers, cream of
wheat. Desserts: sheet cake with icing, sheet cake without icing, apple pie, ice
cream. Dairy products: cheddar cheese, American cheese. Miscellaneous: ripe
olives.
NAL Call Number: Model no. 4
Description: This
package of realistic food models includes a wide variety of food items useful in
a nutrition education program. Includes foods from each of the basic food
groups.
Ordering Information:
NASCO - Fort
Atkinson
901 Janesville Avenue
Fort
Atkinson, WI
Phone:
800-558-9595
Fax: 920-563-8296
Item no. WA02987HR
Online
ordering: http://www.enasco.com/
Food Replica
Package No. 3
Includes:
Life/form replicas; 26 plastic models including Meat, seafood, poultry: ham
slices, beef roast, steak, pork sausage, shrimp. Mexican-American foods:
enchiladas, flour tortilla, refried beans, tamale, taco. Sandwiches, soup,
casseroles: pizza, beef stew. Vegetables: cauliflower, coleslaw, leaf lettuce,
spinach. Grains: rice, macaroni, oatmeal, pancakes. Fruit: applesauce, dates,
half melon, pineapple, prunes. Desserts: chocolate pudding.
NAL Call
Number: Model no. 5
Description: This package of realistic food
models includes a wide variety of food items
useful in a nutrition education
program. Foods from each of the basic food groups are in the
package.
Ordering Information:
NASCO - Fort
Atkinson
901 Janesville Avenue
Fort
Atkinson, WI
Phone:
800-558-9595
Fax: 920-563-8296
Item no. WA02988HR
Online
ordering: http://www.enasco.com/
High Fiber Food
Package
Ft.
Atkinson, WI: NASCO, 1990.
Includes: Life/form replicas; 28
plastic models including prunes, strawberries, orange, apple, coleslaw, carrot
sticks, whole tomato, broccoli, oatmeal, brown rice, bran muffin, popcorn, chili
with beans, kidney beans, canned peach halves, orange juice, applesauce, cooked
carrots, tomato juice, cornflakes, white rice, and hard roll.
NAL Call
Number: Model no. 9
Description: This food model package focuses
on increasing fiber in the diet. Both high fiber and low fiber food replicas are
provided for demonstrating how changing food selections can increase fiber
content of the diet.
Ordering Information:
NASCO - Fort
Atkinson
901 Janesville Avenue
Fort
Atkinson, WI
Phone:
800-558-9595
Fax: 920-563-8296
Item no. WA12619HR
Online
ordering: http://www.enasco.com/
Mexican-American Ethnic Food
Set
Ft. Atkinson, WI: NASCO,
1980.
Includes: Life/form replicas; 12 plastic models and 1
booklet which includes hot chili pepper (jalapeno), avocado, beef cubes in brown
gravy (carne guisada), enchiladas, flour tortilla, corn tortilla, Mexican-style
beans in a bowl (frijoles in a bowl), refried beans (frijoles refritos), tamales
(2), rice with chicken (arroz con pollo), Spanish rice, and crisp taco
NAL
Call Number: Model no. 7
Description:. The models are teaching
aids for demonstrating the variety of foods used to prepare authentic ethnic
dishes.
Ordering Information:
NASCO - Fort
Atkinson
901 Janesville Avenue
Fort
Atkinson, WI
Phone:
800-558-9595
Fax: 920-563-8296
Item no. WA19638HR
Online
ordering: http://www.enasco.com/
Team Nutrition: Feed Me and Move It
Posters
US Department of Agriculture,
2000.
Description: Move It poster show activity pyramid.
Feed Me poster features food groups and guidance on which foods to eat “less,
enough, more and plenty”.
Target Audience: Children, Middle School,
High School
Ordering Information:
USDA's Team
Nutrition
Springfield, VA
Phone:
703-305-1624
Fax: 703-605-6852
Online
ordering: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/NTISform.html
The Tubes: Fast
Foods
Dixie
Havlak
Includes: 36 glass tubes containing plastic representations of
fat and 1 stand for tubes
NAL Call Number: Model no.
21
Description: A visual representation of the fat content in 36 food
items, including several served in popular fast food chain restaurants. Examples
include a Whopper with cheese, a Kentucky Fried chicken breast, and a Wendy's
baked potato, as well as Doritos chips, French fries, cheddar cheese, ice cream,
etc.
The Tubes: Sugar Foods
Dixie Havlak
Olympia, WA: Lifetime
Nutrition, 1990.
Includes: 22 glass tubes containing sugar and 1 stand
for tubes
NAL Call Number: Realia no. 5
Description: A
visual representation of the sugar content in 22 food items, including several
brand name foods. Examples include Skippy peanut butter, Fruit & Fiber
cereal, Pepsi Cola, Fruit Loops cereal, and Jello, as well as canned peaches, a
candy bar, ketchup, graham crackers, syrup, sweetened iced tea, etc.
Vegetarian Food Package
Ft. Atkinson, WI: NASCO,
1990.
Includes: Life/form replicas; 34 plastic models and
includes oatmeal, whole milk, whole banana, whole wheat bread, butter pats,
American cheese, orange, orange juice, graham crackers, tossed salad, French
dressing, cheese pizza, yogurt, chocolate chip cookie, vegetable soup, saltine
crackers, peanut butter on bread, brown rice, broccoli, carrots, yam, bran
muffin, and apple.
NAL Call Number: Model no.
10
Description: This package of vegetarian food models illustrates how
to eat a healthy lacto-ovo (dairy and eggs) vegetarian diet and a vegan (all
vegetable) diet. Sufficient food replicas are provided to show a sample meal
plan for each type of vegetarian diet.
Ordering Information:
NASCO - Fort Atkinson
901 Janesville Avenue
Fort Atkinson, WI
Phone: 800-558-9595
Fax: 920-563-8296
Item no. WA22226HR
Online ordering: http://www.enasco.com/
A. Nutrition, Learning,
and Health
Blue Ribbon Child Care Food and Nutrition Skill Series. 2nd
edition
Anne C. Fox
Boise, ID: Dept. of Education, State of Idaho,
1997. 30 pp.
NAL Call Number: TX361.C5F69
1997
Description: A manual for day care providers. Contains basic
nutrition information, feeding young children, menu planning, wise food
shopping, kitchen management, and food safety.
Target Audience: Child
Care Providers
Ordering Information:
State Department of
Education
CARE Connection
University, MS: University of Mississippi, National
Food Service Management Institute, 1997.
Includes: 11 videocassettes,
1 sponsor guide
NAL Call Number: Kit no. 383
Description:
This curriculum contains 48 lessons developed for use by sponsors of child
care homes and child care centers to use in training child care providers.
Lessons 26-29 focus on food safety and sanitation in child care. Other
lessons emphasize nutrition needs of infants and children, meal planning, food
preparation and basic program requirements.
Target audience: Child
Care Providers
Ordering Information:
NFSMI- The University of
Mississippi
P.O. Drawer 188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
Don’t Give Kids a Tummy Ache
Berkeley, CA: University of
California Agriculture & Natural Resources, 2000.
Includes:
1 computer CD
Description: Presents basic food safety techniques
on food handling and cooking, food poisoning symptoms, and how food poisoning is
transmitted
Target Audience: Child Care Providers, Caregivers, and
Parents
Online ordering: http://www.anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/
Feeding Children Well
John Kerr
Austin, TX: Texas Nutrition
Education & Training Program, 1995.
Includes: 1 videocassette (17
min.) (VHS)
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no.
2193
Description: Explains the Food Guide Pyramid and the importance
of nutrition to child care providers. Available in both English and
Spanish.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers
Ordering
Information:
NFSMI- The University of Mississippi
P.O. Drawer
188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
Online ordering:
http://www.nfsmi.org/
Feeding Infants During the First Year
Austin, TX: Texas
Nutrition Education & Training Program, 2001.
NAL Call Number:
TX361.C5
F45 2001
Description: A workshop manual developed to
train contractors to plan nutritious meals that meet the infant meal pattern
requirements of the USDA Child Nutrition Programs. The workshop covers
USDA infant meal pattern requirements and recommendations, basic needs of
infants, creditable foods for infants, crediting guide for infant foods, and
safety and sanitation.
Feeding Young Children
Cheyenne, WY: Wyoming Department of
Education/Team Nutrition, 2003.
Includes: Videocassette (60
min.)(VHS), DVD (60 min.)
NAL Call Number: Videocassette
no. 3324
Description: A 60 minute video or CD for child
care providers which covers the following topics: Exploring the Food Guide
and Activity Pyramids, Planning Menus Safely and Efficiently, Making Mealtime
Pleasant, and Learning Activities and Resources.
Ordering
Information:
Wyoming Dept. of Education
Health & Safety
Unit
Hathaway Bldg., 2nd floor
Phone:
307-777-6262
Email: kmordh@educ.state.wy.us
Happy Mealtimes for Healthy Kids
Paula Peirce
University,
MS: National Food Service Management Institute, 2003. 93
pp.
Includes: 3-stage evaluation, handouts for parents, and
interactive activities for use with staff, training script, and PowerPoint
slides.
Web site: http://www.nfsmi.org/Information/hmhkindex.html
Description:
Two comprehensive training modules designed to teach child care staff best
practices when feeding children.
Target Audience: Child care
staff
NFSMI- The University of Mississippi
P.O. Drawer
188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
Online ordering:
http://www.nfsmi.org/
Healthy Habits to Grow a Happy Family
Team Nutrition Training
Institute and Rhode Island Department of Education, 1999.
NAL Call
Number: RJ206.T43
Description: Provides information on the
food guide pyramid, family mealtime, the nutrition fact label, feeding children,
starting the day with breakfast and exercise, creating a cost-effective healthy
meal, and healthy snacking.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers and
Educators
Ordering Information:
Kids First, Inc.
5
Richmond Square
Providence, RI 02906
Phone: 401-751-4503
Website:
http://www.kidsfirstri.org/
Email: kids1st@gis.net
The Healthy Young Child
Sari F. Edelstein
Minneapolis/St. Paul,
MN: West Pub. Co., 1995. 620 pp.
NAL Call Number:
RJ61.E23-1995
Description: Provides readers with a comprehensive,
practical guide for the nurturing and caring of children. Outlines a detailed
discussion of normal growth and development; focuses on how to feed children of
all ages and provides an understanding of nutrition; places major emphasis on
safety; and includes information on current health issues.
Target
Audience: Child Care Providers
Ordering Information:
West
Publishing Company
La Piramide Alimenticia Para Ninos Pequenos (The Food Guide Pyramid for
Young Children)
Evanston, IL: United Learning
Includes:
Duplication masters, teacher’s guide with lesson plans, student activities,
discussion questions, and script.
NAL Call Number: Videocassette
No. 3244
Description: Demonstrates how to make the best food choices
for children aged 2-6 years old. Video is 12 minutes in
length
Target audience: CACFP sponsors, parents, and caregivers of
young childre
Ordering Information
Suite 100
Phone:
800-323-9084
Fax: 847-328-6706
Email: info@unitedlearning.com
Making Nutrition Count for Children -
Menu Planning Guide for
Child Care Homes
Alexandria, VA: United States Department of
Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, Spring 2002. 43 pp.
NAL Call
Number: aTx353 .US no. 329
Web Site: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/nutritioncount.html
Description:
Provides information on nutrients needed for children’s growth and development,
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, USDA Food Guide Pyramid, and choking
prevention information. It shares ideas and tips on how to help children
learn to make healthful food choices and how their eating and food behaviors
change as they grow. Included in the booklet are a set of activities and a
few recipes for children with a tear-out matching game and a storage
pocket.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers and
Parents
Ordering Information:
USDA's Team
Nutrition
Springfield, VA
Phone:
703-305-1624
Fax: 703-605-6852
Nutrition in Action: Dietary Guidelines in Child Care: Featuring
Quality Components of Nutrition Services in Child Care
Middletown,
CT:
2001. (various pages).
NAL Call Number:
RJ206.C57 2001.
Description: This is a
comprehensive manual designed to address the many goals and requirements related
to nutrition services in Connecticut preschool programs. The guide
identifies a variety of components for quality nutrition services. The
components have been divided into six checklists including: identifying
children's nutrition needs; serving nutritious meals and snacks; promoting
healthy eating practices; promoting physical activity; creating a
developmentally appropriate and safe eating environment; and providing nutrition
education and training.
Ordering Information:
Connecticut State
Department of Education
Office of Child
Nutrition
Phone:
860-807-2070
Fax: 860-807-2084
Nutrition in Infancy and Childhood. 7th Edition.
Christine
M. Trahms
New York: NY McGraw-Hill, 2001. 458 pp.
NAL Call Number:
In process.
Description: Presents information on growth and
development, nutrient needs of infants and children, and the clinical approach
to collecting and assessing food intake information. Includes discussions on
infancy, preschool-age, school-age, and adolescent children.
Target
Audience: Child Care Providers and Parents
Team Nutrition Training for RCCI’s and RIARC’s Resource
Manual
Donna LaVallee and Elaine Cwynar
Providence, RI: Rhode
Island Team Nutrition Training Institute Program, 1999.
Includes: 1
binder, 3 ½ floppy disc power point presentation
NAL Call Number:
TX361.H35
C89 1999
Description: Provides information on nutrition
planning, recipes, safety and cooking techniques, knifes skills, sanitation and
equipment for staff members working in residential child care
institutions.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers and Food Service
Personnel
Ordering Information:
KIDS FIRST, Inc.
5
Richmond Square
Providence, RI 02906
Phone:
401-751-4503
Website: http://www.kidsfirstri.org/
Email: kids1st@gis.net
B. Child and Adult Care
Food Program Operations
Caring for Our
Children
Dan Huber
Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of
Pediatrics, 1995.
Includes: 6 videocassettes (176 min.)(VHS) and 1
booklet
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no.
2459
Description: This video demonstrates how to comply with various
guidelines from Caring for our Children, a book that contains national standards
for development and evaluation of health and safety performance for out-of-home
child care.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers
Ordering
Information:
American Academy of Pediatrics
Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0927
Phone:
847-434-4000
Online ordering: http://www.aap.org/bookstorepubs.html
Child and Adult Care Food Program Training Workbook for Child Care Centers
fiscal year: 1998-1999
Lincoln, Neb. Child and Adult Care Food Program,
Nutrition Services, Nebraska Dept. of Education, 2000.
NAL Call
Number: TX911.2 .C55 2000.
Description: Workbook for people who
are learning to administer the Nebraska Child and Adult Care Food Program.
Includes lessons in record keeping, how to determine eligibility, how to use the
various forms required for the CACFP, how to prepare the monthly claim for
reimbursement, how to organize and file CACFP records, and how to prepare for a
compliance review or audit. Information is applicable to other
non-Nebraska CACFP.
Target Audience: Child and Adult Care Food Program
Providers
Ordering Information:
Child and Adult Care Food
Program
Nutrition Services
Nebraska Department of Education
301
Centennial Mall South
Phone:
402-471-2488
Website: http://nde.state.ne.us/ns/
Evaluation of menus planned in
NAL Call Number:
389.8 Am34
Description: Objectives: To collect information from
licensed child-care centers in Mississippi on their foodservice operations
relative to participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); to collect information on who planned
the menus; and to evaluate the energy and nutrient content of the planned menus
relative to the suggested goal of one third of the Recommended Dietary
Allowances (RDAs) and the recommendations made in the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans. Details of the study and results are included.
Target
Audience: Health Care Professionals and Dietitians
Healthful Menus and Recipes for Children Over Two Years of Age in the
Child and Adult Care Food Program
Julie A. Haines, Madeleine
Sigman-Grant, and Lynne J. Brown
Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Dept. of
Education, 1996. 90 pp.
NAL Call Number: TX361.C5H35 1996
Description: Provides ideas to help child care givers meet the
nutritional needs of the children in their care. Contains menus that follow the
current recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics for healthy
children over two years of age. Includes nutrition activities and resource list;
a food safety section; recipes to provide the care giver with helpful ideas to
use in providing safe; and healthful food choices to children.
Target
Audience: Child Care Providers
Ordering
Information:
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Division of Food and
Nutrition
333 Market Street, 4th floor
Phone:
717-787-7698
Menu Magic for Children
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, 2002.
NAL Call Number: aTX353
.U5 no. 328
Description: Includes information about the CACFP
meal pattern requirements, menu planning, sample menus, and
recipes.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers
Web Site:
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/menumagic.html
Phone:
703-305-1624
Email: teamnutrition@fns.usda.gov
C. Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity to Young Children
CARE Connection Training Program
Florida DOE, Food and Nutrition
Management Section, North Carolina Division of Women’s and Children’s health,
Nutrition Services Section, 1997.
NAL Call Number: Kit no.
383
Includes: 10 lesson series containing 48
mini-lessons.
Description: The CARE Connection uses a process for good
decision making. The video shows a scenario of a child care provider
introducing children to fresh kiwi and pineapple using the CARE decision making
process.
Target Audience: Child care centers and family day
care
Web Site: http://www.nfsmi.org/Information/ccindx.htm
Ordering
Information:
NFSMI – The
P.O. Drawer
188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
Effects of restrictive and self-selected feeding on preschool children's
food intake and waste at snack time
L. Branen and J. Fletcher Journal
of Nutrition Education, 26 (6): 273-277. 1994.
NAL Call
Number: TX341.J6
Description: Regulating young children's food
intake is common practice in child care facilities. Many care givers fear that
children will overeat or waste food if allowed to select their own portions. The
purpose of this study was to compare food intake and waste of preschool children
at snack time when given one portion of snack and when allowed to self-select
their snack amount.
Target Audience: Health Care Professionals and
Dietitians
Healthy Heart Snack Choices: A Resource Guide
Susan M.
Kessler
Plainview, NY: Cornell Cooperative Extension, Nassau County, 1996.
170 pp.
NAL Call Number: RC684.D5K377 1996.
Description:
Project provides guidance in promoting healthy snacking habits in children by
introducing them to healthy foods in a relaxed, recreational
atmosphere.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers and
Educators
Ordering Information:
Cornell Cooperative Extension of
Phone:
607-255-2237
American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition: Making
Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life, 1st
edition
William H. Dietz and Loraine Stern, editors
New York, NY:
Villard Books, 1999. 234 pp.
NAL Call Number: RJ206.A494
1999
Description: Gives parents the information and strategies they
need to take care of the dietary requirements of children from birth through
adolescence. Emphasizes the following topics: what's best for newborns;
introducing solid foods; nutrition basics for toddlers, school-age children, and
adolescents; identifying food allergies; recognizing and treating eating
disorders; alternative diets and supplements; food safety and additives; how to
tell if a child is overweight, underweight, etc. Discusses how to plan healthy
menus and how to make mealtime a pleasant experience for the entire
family.
Target Audience: Parents
Ordering
Information:
American Academy of Pediatrics
Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0927
Phone:
847-434-4000
Online ordering: http://www.aap.org/bookstorepubs.html
Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies: Emotional Support and
Practical Advice from a Parent Who's Been There
Lisa Cipriano
Collins
New York, NY: John Wiley, 2000. 115 pp.
NAL Call Number:
RJ386.5
C64 2000
Description:
Target Audience: Parents
Ordering
Information:
Phone:
877-762-2974
Fax: 800-597-3299
E-mail: consumers@wiley.com
Cooking Demo II
Food and Health Communications, Inc.,
2001.
Description: Contains food demonstration lessons that emphasize
the use of fruit, vegetables, whole grains and beans. While mostly for use
with consumers, one lesson addresses training staff on food safety during food
demonstrations.
Target audience: Parents and Children
Online
Ordering: http://www.foodandhealth.com/products.php?pid=15
Feeding with Love and Good Sense
William Maund,
producer
Madison, WI: Ellyn Satter Associates, 1994.
Includes: 1
videocassette (60 min.) (VHS) and 1 teacher's guide
NAL Call Number:
Videocassette no. 2545
Description: Shows the care giver how to feed
young children
Target Audience: Parents and child care
providers
Ordering Information:
Ellyn Satter
Associates
Phone: 800-808
7976
Website: http://www.ellynsatter.com/
Food Family Fun
Alexandria, VA: United States Department of
Agriculture, 1996, 122 pp.
NAL Call Number: aTX661.T43
1996
Description: Recipes for fun, healthy and affordable meals
partnered with learning activities. This cookbook emphasizes seasonal
bargains and is organized by season and month. Examples of recipes include
Chicken Stir Fry, Fruit Yogurt Shake. In addition the book includes
important information about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Food Guide
Pyramid, serving sizes, nutrition labels, food safety, and a list of resources
for additional information.
Target Audience:
Parents
Ordering Information:
NFSMI – The
P.O. Drawer
188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
Food for Thought
Nancy Battista Morgan
Evanston, IL: United
Learning, 1995.
Includes: 1 videocassette (12 min.) (VHS)
NAL
Call Number: Videocassette no. 2146
Description: Suggests ways for
parents of young children to cope with the dinner hour in a peaceful way.
Presents helpful suggestions that encourage appropriate behavior, such as how to
deal with picky eaters and how to keep a hungry child from disrupting the entire
family meal.
Target Audience: Parents
Ordering
Information:
Suite
100
Phone:
800-323-9084
Fax: 847-328-6706
Email: info@unitedlearning.com
Healthy Habits to Grow a Happy Family: A Trainer’s Guide
Kids
First, Inc.
NAL Call Number: RJ206
.T43 1999
Description: Healthy Habits to Grow a Happy Family is
a trainer’s guide to instruct parents on feeding their children. The
course consists of five sessions: The Food Guide Pyramid, family meal times,
nutrition fact labels, feeding children, breakfast and exercises, creating
cost-effective healthy meal through shopping and menu planning, and healthy
snacking. Each of the sessions contains recipes with shopping lists,
objectives, and materials needed by the presenters and
parents.
Target Audience: Parents
Ordering
Information:
Dorothy Hebert, Director
RI Team Nutrition Training
Institute
Phone:
401-421-0248
Nibbles for Health: Nutrition Newsletters for Parents of Young
Children
Alexandria, VA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and
Nutrition Servise, Team Nutrition, 2002. (various pagings).
Description:
Nibbles for Health was developed for child care center staff and parents of
young children enrolled in child care centers. This kit offers child care
center staff guidance on conducting discussions with parents in three “sharing
sessions” and accompanying posters. Also contained in the kit are 41
reproducible newsletters that staff can provide to parents to address many of
the challenges they face.
Web site: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/nibbles.html
Nutrition Guide to Food Allergies
Anne Muñoz-Furlong
Fairfax,
VA: Food Allergy Network, 1992. 23 pp.
NAL Call Number: RC596.N87
1992
Description: Discusses what a food allergy is, how it's
diagnosed, and how it's treated. Teaches parents how a child's food allergy will
affect his or her diet. Explains the importance of balanced meals in the
treatment of a food allergy, encouraging parents not to change a child's diet
without consulting a pediatrician, allergist, or registered
dietitian.
Target Audience: Parents
Ordering
Information:
The Food Allergy Network
Phone: 703-
691-3179
Website: http://www.foodallergy.org/
Oatmeal in My Hair: the Challenge of Feeding Kids
Minneapolis, MN:
Gannett Production Services, 1992.
Includes: 1 videocassette
(12 min.) (VHS)
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no.
1301
Description: Several parents discuss their problems with feeding
their preschool children. Topics include: ideas for snacks, ways to make
mealtime more pleasant, shopping tips, typical characteristics of preschooler
parents as role models. Variety of ethnic groups and family types are
represented, including a divorced father and a single other.
Target
Audience: Parents
Off to School with Food Allergies: a Guide for Parents and Educators:
Parent's Guide
Robert S. Zeiger and Anne Muñoz-Furlong
Fairfax, VA:
Food Allergy Network, 1992. 20 pp.
NAL Call Number: RC596.M86
1992
Description: Intended to help parents and educators of children
with food allergies work together to ease the stressful transition period of
sending a child off to school. Answers such questions as what is a food allergy,
what foods cause food-allergic reactions, what are typical symptoms that occur
during a food-allergic reaction, can food allergies kill, can food allergies be
outgrown, what steps should be taken if a student is experiencing a
food-allergic reaction, etc. Contains a checklist for parents and tips for
packing lunches for food-allergic children.
Target Audience: Parents
and Educators
Ordering Information:
The Food Allergy
Network
Phone:
703-691-3179
Website: http://www.foodallergy.org/
Parents and Children Sharing Food Tasks
Berkeley, CA: University of
California EFNEP, 1998.
NAL Call Number: Videocassette
no. 3023
Description: This 1.5 hour lesson addresses
introducing new foods, parent-child feeding relationship, and snacking.
Childhood overweight and dietary iron intake are optional topics. A lesson
Guide provides discussion points, activities, the videotape scripts, and other
information for instructors. A video presents information on the division
of feeding responsibility in English followed by Spanish. Handouts in
English or Spanish.
Target audience: Parents of children ages
2-7
Team Nutrition's Food, Family and Fun: a Seasonal Guide to Healthy Eating:
Alexandria, VA: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Service;
Washington, DC, GPO. 122 pp.
NAL Call Number: aTX661.T43
1996
Description: This is a collection of 50 recipes, organized by
season, features family nutrition education activities.
Target Audience:
Child Care Providers
Web site: http://www.nal.usda.gov/childcare/Recipes/childcare.html
Ordering
Information:
NFSMI – The
P.O. Drawer
188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
Team Up at Home II – Fun Nutrition Activities for the Family
West
Virginia Department of Education, Office of Child Nutrition, 2002.
NAL
Call Number: RJ216.T432 2002
Description: This training
material was designed to provide short, powerful, activity oriented nutrition
education lessons to parents in a group learning setting. Eleven lessons,
each accompanied with lesson instructions and additional materials are included
in the 3-ring binder. Each lesson requires 30-45 minutes, but the
instructions are written to allow the instructors flexibility in planning and
presenting the lessons.
Target audience: Parents/
Caregivers
Ordering Information:
West Virginia Department of
Education, Office of Child Nutrition
West Virginia Traditions: Families, Food & Fun
West Virginia
Dept of Education, 2000.
Includes: 1 Videocassette (18 min)(VHS)
and 1 Leader’s Guide
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no.
3235
Description: This video is designed to help West Virginian
families pass on healthy habits and a positive attitude about nutrition to their
children, as well as the rich history of family meals. The video
complements Team Nutrition’s Team Up at Home nutrition
lessons.
Ordering Information:
Phone:
304-372-7824
Be Food Safe! Curriculum Unit for Nutrition Education
Assistants
Joan E. Helzer and Lucia L. Kaiser
Davis, CA: University of
California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cooperative
Extension, Dept. of Nutrition, 2000. 133 pp.
NAL Call Number:
TX531.H45
2000
Description: This train-the-trainer curriculum
addresses key messages about food safety. The lessons may be taught as one
60-90 minute lesson or as four 10-15 minute mini-lessons. The lessons and
handouts incorporate the four Fight Bac! Messages: Clean, Separate, cook
and chill. Other topics discussed include: sources of foodborne illness,
prevention, symptoms and what to do if you think you have a foodborne
illness.
Available in the following languages, English and Spanish,
Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese.
Ordering
Information:
ANR Communication Services
6701 San Pablo
Ave.
Oakland, CA 94608
Phone: 800-994-8849/510-642-2431
Fax:
510-643-5470
Online ordering: http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/merchant.ihtml?pid=4076&lastcatid=350&step=4
Don’t Give Kids a Tummyache! CD-ROM
DANR Publications,
2000.
NAL Call Number: S39.P82
no. 21586
Description: This training program for
parents, child care providers, and other caregivers presents the basics of how
to avoid food poisoning in a 45 to 60 minute presentation. Through a
series of activities and case studies, participants are guided through the
basics of handling and cooking food safely, food poisoning symptoms, and how
food poisoning is transmitted. Written in both English and Spanish, the
format allows printing out of the curriculum, handouts, and 19 transparencies in
black and white or in color.
Target audience: child care providers and
parents.
Ordering Information:
Division of Agriculture
and Natural Resources
Communication Services
6701 San Pablo Avenue, 2nd
Floor
Phone: 800-994-8849 or
510-642-2431
Fax: 510-643-5470
Web site: http://anrcs.ucdavis.edu/
Glo-Germ
Glo-Germ Company
Description: Glo-germ is a kit
that helps teach handwashing, aseptic techniques, and general infection
control. The kit consists of an oil, a powder, and a special fluorescent
lamp. The oil and powder contain plastic germs and the lamp reveals the
germs. Students apply either the oil or the powder and then work through
their normal handwashing procedure. The lamp is then used to spot
remaining germs. Choice of three different kits, depending on light
source.
Website: http://www.glogerm.com/
Target
audience: Pre-school and school children, parents, and child care
providers
Hands on Cooking Projects for Children & Parents
Marty Lash
Cook, Rita K. Moore, and Alyce D. Fly
Bloomington, IN: Bloomington
Developmental Learning Center, 1993. 31 pp.
NAL Call Number:
TX661.C66 1993
Description: A collection of simple recipes for
children and adults to make together. Recipes are organized by breads and
grains, appetizers, main dishes, and snacks and beverages. Recipes include
nutritional analysis. Suggestions for favorite books, songs, and activities
accompany each recipe. Also included are tips for healthy eating and teaching
children good table manners.
Keeping Kids Safe: a Guide for Safe Food Handling &
Sanitation
Washington DC: USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service, 1996.
21 pp.
Description: This booklet is designed to help child care
providers with food safety and sanitation basics. The information is
presented in pictographic format. Each page is designed so that it can be
easily read and copied and can stand on its own as a learning
component.
Website: http://schoolmeals.nal.usda.gov/Safety/KidsSafedit.pdf
Target
audience: Child Care Providers
Safe Food for Children
Pullman, WA: Washington State University
Cooperative Extension, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, 1998. 21
pp.
Description: This booklet covers the basics of food safety and
food handling guidelines for child care providers. Topics include
foodborne illness, sanitation, caring for infants and toddlers, cooking,
cleaning, food sources, food storage, snack and mealtime, field trips, pets and
food preparation.
Website: http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb1868/eb1868.pdf
Target
audience: Child Care Providers
Safe Food for Children
Includes: 2 videocassettes and
5 leader's guides
NAL Call
Number: Kit no. 231
Description: Provides information for
child care providers on safe food handling. Discusses how and when to wash
hands; how to shop for safe food; how to prepare and serve food safely; how to
store food safely; and how to keep the kitchen and its equipment
sanitary.
Target audience: Child Care
Providers
Safe Food, Healthy Children
Includes:
1 videocassette, 1 facilitator's packet, and 1 participant
packet
Georgia: University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service,
1995.
NAL Call Number: Kit no. 340
Description: Deals
with problems of foodborne illness and its possible devastating effects on
children, and identifies ways to prevent foodborne illness in child care centers
and family day care homes.
Target audience: Child Care
Providers
Sanitation and Health – Trainer Guide
Austin, TX: Texas Dept. of
Human Services, Special Nutrition Programs, 2001. (various pagings).
NAL
Call Number: TX531.S2631
2001
Description: This training manual provides participants
with the proper sanitary guidelines to ensure that safe food is prepared and
served. This workshop was designed for any staff involved with handling,
preparing, and storing of food, or personnel who clean or care for utensils,
dishes, equipment, and the general food service facility, and whose facility
participates in one or more of the USDA Child Nutrition Programs: Child and
Adult Care food Program, National School Lunch Program; School Breakfast
Program; Special Milk Program; and Summer food Service
Program.
Target Audience: Food Service Personnel in
Schools
Ordering Information:
Brenda Miller-Hampton
TDHS
P.O.
Box 149030, MC Y-906
Phone:
512-467-5893
F. Food Service
Building Blocks for Fun and
Healthy Meals
Alexandria, VA: Food and Nutrition Service, United
States Department of Agriculture, 2000.
NAL Call Number: TX353 U5 no.
305
Web site: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/buildingblocks.html
Description:
A menu planner for the Child and Adult Care Food Program. This menu
planner contains information on the CACFP meal requirements, advice on how to
serve high quality meals and snacks, menu planning, nutrition education ideas
and tips.
Target Audience: Child and Adult Care Food Service
Personnel
Ordering Information:
USDA’s Team
Nutrition
Fax:
703-605-6852
Calendar-Keeper
St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press, 2004. 92
pp.
Description: The Calendar-Keeper gives monthly expense charts for
all purchases; monthly attendance and payment log; Food Program tallies for
meals, expenses, and claims; weekly/quarterly income record; record-keeping
advice; tax worksheets; mileage record; ready-to-use waiting list; fire and
emergency drill records; emergency numbers; recipes and menus with CACFP
crediting; and much more.
Target Audience: Child Care
Providers
Ordering Information:
RedLeaf Press
450 North
Syndicate,
Phone:
800-423-8308
Website: http://www.redleafpress.org/
Child Care Recipes: Food for Health and Fun
United States
Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program, Food and
Nutrition Service, 1999. (various pagings).
NAL Call Number:
aTX353 US no. 304a
Web site: http://www.nal.usda.gov/childcare/Recipes/childcare.html
Description:
This manual is a collection of 141 new recipes with many of them providing
variations for a total of 180 recipes. Each recipe contributes to a
reimbursable meal served to children in the Child and Adult Care Food
Program. The recipes add variety to menus with plenty of fruits,
vegetables, and grain products. They are lower in fat, saturated fat, and
sodium than previous recipe collections for child care centers. A
food safety publication for child care providers is also enclosed in the
manual.
Target Audience: Child and Adult Care Food Program
Personnel
Ordering Information:
NFSMI – The
P.O. Drawer
188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
Children's Choices, a Cookbook for Family Child Care
Providers
Karen Ross, Doris Fredericks, and
Sacramento, CA: California
Dept. of Education, 1995. 158 pp.
NAL Call Number: TX714.C484 1995
Description: Recipe book designed to assist family child care
providers in feeding the young children in their care. The recipes included here
provide variety and good nutrition, and they meet the Child Care Food Program
requirements.
Target Audience: Family Child Care
Providers
Ordering Information:
California Department of
Education
1430 N Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-319-0800
Connecticut Cooks for Kids: a Collection of Recipes from Child Care
Providers throughout Connecticut
Ellen L. Shanley, Collen A. Thompson,
and Susan A. Fiore
Storrs, CT: Connecticut Nutrition Education and Training
Program, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural
Resources, University of Connecticut, 1996. 181 pp.
NAL Call
Number: TX715.S53
Description: A compilation of recipes submitted
by child care providers who participate in the Child and Adult Care Food
Program.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers
Ordering
Information:
The
Dept. of Nutritional
Sciences
3624 Horsebarn Road Ext
Phone: (860) 486
1787
Feeding for the Future: Exceptional Nutrition in the I.E.P.
Tallahassee, FL: Florida Dept. of Education, Food and Nutrition Management
Section, 1993.
Includes: 1 videocassette (19 min.)(VHS) and 1
guide
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no. 2286
Description:
This video was created to help caregivers of exceptional children build self
feeding skills and improve the nutritional health of these
children.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers
Feeding Infants: A Guide for Use in the Child Nutrition
Programs
Alexandria, VA: Food and Nutrition Service, United States
Department of Agriculture, 2002.
NAL Call Number: aTX353.U5
no.258 2002
Web site: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/feeding_infants.html
Description:
The guide presents information on infant development, nutrition for infants,
breastfeeding and formula feeding, preventing tooth decay, feeding solid foods,
drinking from a cup, choking prevention, sanitary food preparation and safe food
handling, commercially prepared and home-prepared baby food, and some of the
Infant Meal Pattern requirements.
Target Audience: Child
Care Providers
Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
Food and Nutrition
Services, USDA, 2001.
Web site: http://schoolmeals.nal.usda.gov/FBG/buyingguide.html
Description:
This resource helps school food service professionals buy the right kind of
food and buy it most economically whether they use one of the food-based or
nutrient standard menu planning approaches. For the food-based menu
planning options, it will help them determine the specific contribution each
food makes toward the meal pattern requirements.
Ordering
Information:
NFSMI – The
P.O. Drawer
188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
Food for Thought: an Information Package
Tallahassee, FL: Florida
Dept. of Education, 1996.
Includes: 1 videotape, 4 brochures, and 1
booklet
NAL Call Number: Kit no. 312
Description:
Explains the relationship between nutrition and learning and encourages
school food service managers to coordinate with school improvement advisory
councils.
Target Audience: School Food Service Managers
Ordering
Information:
Bureau of School Business
Food and Nutrition Management
Section
Food for Tots: the Complete Guide to Feeding Preschoolers, Including 100+
Kid-Tested Recipes
Janice Woolley, Jennifer Pugmire, Marilyn
Taggart
Mercer Island, WA: Food for Tots Pub., 2001.
NAL Call
Number: RJ206.W798
2001
Description: Includes tips for raising healthy eaters,
from first foods to finger foods to family meals; essential information about
food allergies, food safety, and nutrition; creative ways to involve
preschoolers in cooking; great recipes for play dough, bubbles, and other fun
activities.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers and Pre-school
Educators
Ordering Information:
Food for Tots, Division of Mammoth
Media, Inc.
P.O
Phone:
866-366-3367
Email: info@foodfortots.com
Website:
http://www.foodfortots.com/
From Animal Crackers to Wild West Beans: Easy and Fun Vegetarian Recipes
for Healthy Babies and Children
Carol
Timperley
Lincolnwood, Ill: Contemporary Books, 1998.
NAL Call
Number: TX837
T495 1998
Description: Includes more than 150 creative,
nourishing, meat-free recipes that babies and children will love. Also includes
information to help you shop, cook, and freeze ahead; and menu charts for babies
and toddlers aged 4 to 6 months, 6 to 9 months, and 9 to 12
months
Target Audience: Parents
and Childcare Providers
A Guide to Feeding Young Children with Special
Needs
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Dept. of Health Services, Office of Nutrition
Services, 1995. 95 pp.
NAL Call Number: TX361.H35G85
1995
Description: Designed to increase the awareness of special
challenges involved in nutrition and feeding concerns for children with special
health care needs and to present ways to approach the issues. It includes
children with chronic illnesses and disabilities such as cerebral palsy, spina
bifida, food allergies, metabolic disorders and serious emotional and behavioral
disorders.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers
Ordering
Information:
Arizona Department of Health Sciences
Office of Nutrition
Services
Phone: 602-542-1886
Healthful Menus and Recipes for Children Over 2 Years of Age in
CACFP
Julie A. Haines, Madeleine Sigman-Grant, and Lynne, J.
Brown
University Park, PA: Distribution Center, 1996. 90 pp.
NAL
Call Number: TX361.C5H35
1996
Description: Provides ideas to help child care
givers meet the nutritional needs of the children in their care. Contains menus
that follow the current recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics
for healthy children over two years of age, as well as a nutrition activities
and resource list, a food safety section, and recipes to provide the care giver
with helpful ideas to use in providing safe and healthful food choices to
children.
Ordering Information:
Penn State University
Publications
112 Agricultural Administration
Building
Phone:
814-865-6713
Email: JHAINES@A1.PSUPEN.PSU.EDU
Healthy Eating for 2-5 Year-Old Children
Maryland Cooperative
Extension
Description: This booklet provides parents and child care
providers with practical advice on feeding children 2-5 years old. Main
topics include Building Healthy Habits, Healthy Food Choices, Need for Exercise
Every Day and Food Safety.
Target Audience: Parents and Child Care
Providers
Online ordering: http://www.agnr.umd.edu/MCE/Publications/OrderPub.cfm?ID=477&cat=F%20%20
Healthy West Hollywood Cookbook
Lenexa, KA: Cookbook
Publishers, Inc. (California Department of Health Services and United States
Department of Agriculture), 1999. 33 pp.
NAL Call Number: in
process
Description: A nutritional, multilingual, multi-cultural
cookbook that reflects the diversity of Mexico, Argentina, Jamaica, Russia,
India, Greece, China, and other areas of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and
the United States of America.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers
and Educators
How to do a Good Job – a Guide for Child Nutrition Employees; South Dakota
Child Nutrition Program Certification Institute Track One
SD: Child
and Adult Nutrition Services, Division of Education Services and Resources, SD
Department of Education and Cultural Affairs, 2000. (various pagings).
NAL
Call Number: LB3479 U62 H68 2000
Description: This manual
contains the 30-hour course for South Dakota Child Nutrition Program
Certification Institute, called track 1 for child nutrition employees on
professional work habits, healthy eating, guidelines for the child nutrition
program, and kitchen safety. Divided into 6 sections with performance
objectives, followed by an activity that allows participants to use the
information presented and show that they know how to use it in their jobs.
This is termed “authentic assessment.”
Target Audience: Food
Service Personnel in Schools and Child Care Centers.
Ordering
Information:
Sandra Kangas, Yibo Wood
Phone:
605-773-3413
Linking Individual Differences with Nutritional Needs: Trainer's
Manual
Columbia, MO: Missouri Dept. of Health; University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1993.
NAL Call Number: TX361.C5L56 1993
Description: Participants learn to compare and contrast the
nutritional needs of overweight and underweight children; recognize the link
between exercise, food, and good health; recognize the different levels of
vegetarian diets and be able to accommodate them within the child care setting;
list the most common food allergies in early childhood and ways to minimize
allergy development in children; adapt for feeding problems associated with
caring for children with special health care needs.
Target Audience:
Child Care Providers
Meals
Without Squeals: Child Care Feeding Guide and Cookbook
Christine
Berman, and Jacki Fromer
Palo Alto, CA: Bull Publisher
Emeryville,
CA: Publishers Group West, 1997. 2nd edition
NAL Call
Number: TX361.C5B47
1997
Description: Contains age-specific, child-tested recipes
along with information on children's growth. Explains how common feeding
problems can be solved and shows ways to offer children positive experiences
with food. Includes: current information on children's nutritional needs,
including how to deal with food allergies, calcium, fiber, and
fat; how to
read Nutrition Facts on food labels, plus an introduction to the new Food Guide
Pyramid; recent listings of educational and community nutrition resources;
sample menus, complete with recipes and portion sizes, in adherence with the
USDA's Child Care Food Program; new organizational forms and checklists to aid
in preparing to feed groups of children.
Target Audience: Child Care
Provider
Ordering Information:
Publishers Group
1700 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA
Phone: 510-528-1444, 800-788-3123
Fax: 510-528-3444
Email: info@pgw.com
Planning Menus Kids Will Eat: Trainer's Manual
Columbia, MO:
Missouri Dept. of Health; University of Missouri-Columbia, 1993. 1
volume.
NAL Call Number: TX361.C5P53 1993
Description:
Teaches participants to understand the concept of creditable foods; increase
their understanding of menu planning and identify factors that impact menus and
time of meal service in child care settings; relate the concepts of cycle menus,
seasonal considerations and multicultural diversity as it applies to meals;
construct their own meal plans and analyze menus for nutritional value;
demonstrate ways to introduce new foods to children; weigh the pros and cons of
using convenience and fast foods; etc.
Target Audience: Child Care
Providers and Personnel
Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals
United States
Department of Agriculture, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion,
2000.
NAL Call Number: aTX714
.R43 2000
Description: Provides tips for planning, shopping,
and cooking healthy meals on a tight budget. It contains sample menus for 2
weeks, recipes for healthy, thrifty meals, and lists of foods needed for each
weekly menu.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers and Food Service
Personnel
Ordering Information:
U.S. Department of
Agriculture
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
3101 Park Center
Drive, Rm. 1034,
Phone: 703-305-7600
Fax 703-305-3400
Website: http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/
Safe Food, Healthy Children
Athens, GA: University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension Service, 1995.
Includes: 1 videocassette,
1 facilitator's packet, and 1 participant packet
NAL Call Number: Kit
no. 340
Description: Deals with problems of food borne illness and its
possible devastating effects on children, and identifies ways to prevent food
borne illness in child care centers and family day care homes.
Target
Audience: Child Care Providers
Ordering Information:
The
Hoke Smith
Annex
Phone:
706-542-3773
Special Foods for Special Kids: a Training Tool for Child Care Providers
on Feeding Children with Special Needs
Manhattan, KS: Kansas State
University, College of Agriculture, Dept. of Communications,
1995.
Includes: 1 videocassette (37 min.) (VHS) and 1
manual
NAL Call Number: Videocassette no. 2547
Description:
Explains how child care providers can plan, respond to, and provide for a
child with special needs. Describes various types of modifications that may be
made to the diet to accommodate these children.
Target Audience:
Child Care Providers
Stepping Up for Healthy Families: Training for School Food Service
Personnel
Charleston,
WV: The Office, 2000. sponsored West Virginia Department of Education Office of
Child Nutrition
NAL Call Number: TX364 S75
2000
Description: Enables school food service professionals to
deliver nutrition information to families in local schools and community
settings. This train-the-trainer model prepares presenters to offer hands-on
parent workshops that provide sound, practical nutrition advice. Intended to
help families meet today's challenges of planning and preparing nutritious meals
and snacks, while encouraging children to eat them.
Target Audience:
Food Service Professionals
Ordering Information:
West Virginia
Department of Education, Office of Child Nutrition
Capitol Complex, Building
6, Room 248
Phone:
304-558-2708
What's Cookin' II: A Collection of Recipes from Nebraska Family Child Care
Providers
Charlotte S. Kern, et al.
Nebraska: Nebraska Dept. of
Education, Nutrition Services, Nutrition Education and Training Program,
1997. 224 pp.
NAL Call Number: TX361.C5W52
1997
Description: A collection of recipes designed to help child care
providers serve meals that meet USDA meal pattern requirements, are appetizing
to children, and are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans.
Target Audience: Child Care Providers
Ordering
Information:
Nebraska Department of Education - NET
Nutrition
Education and Training Program
301 Centennial Mall
South,
Lincoln, NE
68509-4987
What's in a Meal? A Resource Manual for Providing Nutritious Meals in the
Child and Adult Care Food Program
Child Nutrition Programs
Chicago,
IL: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Midwest Region, Child
Nutrition Programs, 4th ed 2003. 138 pp.
NAL Call
Number: aTX361.C5
U5 2003
Description: Intended to assist Child and Adult Care
Food Program personnel in providing quality, nutritious meals which comply with
CACFP meal pattern requirements. Sections include nutrition, recipe
modification, food labeling, feeding infants, food handling and sanitation,
ethnic foods, recipe evaluation and crediting foods.
Target Audience:
Child and Adult Care Food Program Providers
Ordering
Information:
NFSMI – The
P.O. Drawer
188
Phone:
800-321-3054
Fax: 800-321-3061
Email: nfsmi@olemiss.edu
G. Quality Child Care
Environments
CACFP Training Resource
Checklist
Deborah H. Carr
University, MS: National Food Service
Management Institute, April 2003. (unpaged).
NAL Call Number:
TX361.C5
C37 2003
Web site: http://www.nfsmi.org/Information/cacfp_training_resource_checklist.pdf
Description:
A checklist to help providers make informed decisions while reviewing
resources regarding the appropriateness of the training resource for use in
their program.
Early Childhood and Child Care Study: Summary of
Findings
Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Consumer
Service, Office of Analysis & Evaluation, 1997. 23 pp.
NAL Call
Number: aHV696.F6E27 1997
Web site: http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane/MENU/Published/CNP/FILES/CHLDCARE.PDF
Description:
Presents major highlights from the study. Contains background
information on the Child and Adult Care Food Program and the children receiving
care in those sites.
Target Audience: Child and Adult Care Food
Program Providers
Ordering Information:
Office of Analysis and
Evaluation
USDA Food and Consumer Service
3101 Park Center Drive, Room
214
Healthy Start: Preschool Health Education
Christine L. Williams and
Betty Jean Carter
Huntington, NY: Healthy-Start, LLC, 2001.
NAL
Call Number: in process.
Description: Provides 12 lesson
plans and activities on self-esteem, fitness, germs, staying drug free, safety,
and healthy eating
Target Audience: Preschool and Health Education
Educators
Ordering Information:
Healthy-Start,
LLC
Phone:
631-549-0010
Fax: 631-549-0010
Email: BCarter830@aol.com or
chrisq@pol.net
Website: http://www.healthy-start.com/
Identification of Available Training Resources Appropriate for Family Day
Care Home Providers
Deborah H. Carr
University, MS: National
Food Service Management Institute, April 2003. 19 pp.
NAL Call
Number: HQ778.63
.C37 2003
Description: A study to identify available
training resources appropriate for use with Family Day Care Home (FDCH)
providers and to record available training resources utilized for preparing FDCH
providers to operate a small child care business within the guidelines of the
CACFP.
Issues Related to Implementation of the Afterschool Snack
Service
Alice Jo Rainville, Jerry B. Cater, and Denise M.
Brown
University, MI: National Food Service Management Institute,
October 2001. 14 pp.
NAL Call Number: TX945.2
.R36 2001
Web site: http://www.nfsmi.org/Information/afterschool.pdf
Description:
A report on research done in operational settings to identify and record the
perspectives and concerns of school foodservice directors who implemented
reimbursable snacks as part of the afterschool care program.
Management Issues Impacting Family Day Care Homes Operating Within the
Child and Adult Care Food Program Guidelines: A Review of
Literature
Deborah H. Carr, and Roman Pawlak
University, MS:
National Food Service Management Institute, March 2003. 14pp.
NAL Call
Number: HQ778.63.C37
2003
Web site: http://www.nfsmi.org/Information/management-issues-impacting-fdch.pdf
Description:
A review of the child care literature as it relates to management issues and
concerns impacting Family Day Care Homes in an effort to identify issues that
relate and support the well-being of children served.
Steps to Nutrition Success Checklist: A Program Self-Assessment
Checklist for Family Day Care Home and Child Care Center Providers Participating
in the Child and Adult Care Food Program
Charlotte Oakley, and Deborah H.
Carr
University, MI: National Food Service Management Institute, May
2003. 75pp.
NAL Call Number: RJ206.O24
2003
Web site: http://www.nfsmi.org/Information/cacfp_checklist_report.pdf
Description:
The Checklist reflects best practices as outlined in the regulations and
guidance for the CACFP and will support CACFP providers in the continuous
quality improvement of the food and nutrition services offered in their
facilities. Additionally, results of the assessment process can be used to
guide child care providers, state agencies, and sponsoring organizations in
selecting training topics that support the specific needs of the programs.
Steps to Nutrition Success Checklist: Child Care
Centers
Charlotte Oakley, and Deborah H. Carr
University, MI:
National Food Service Management Institute, September 2003. 24pp.
NAL Call
Number: RJ206.O243
2003
Web site: http://www.nfsmi.org/Information/childcare_centers_checklist.pdf
Description:
A checklist to help center staff determine if they are using Best Practices
in their child care nutrition programs. There are three main
sections: 1) Administration and Operations; 2) Nutrition; and 3) Health,
Safety, and Well-Being of Children – Working with Parents and Others in the
Community.
Steps to Nutrition Success Checklist: Family Day Care
Homes
Charlotte Oakley, and Deborah H. Carr
University, MI:
National Food Service Management Institute, September 2003. 20pp.
NAL Call
Number: RJ206
.O242 2003
Web site: http://www.nfsmi.org/Information/fdch_checklist.pdf
Description:
A checklist to help family day care providers determine if they are using
Best Practices in their child care nutrition programs. There are three
main sections: 1) Administration and Operations; 2) Nutrition; and 3)
Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Children – Working with Parents and Others in
the Community.
H. Cultural
Considerations
Filipino-American Food Practices,
Customs, and Holidays
Virginia Serraon Claudio
Chicago, IL: The
American Dietetic Association, 1994. 38 pp.
NAL Call Number:
RC662.C53 1994
Description: Gives a brief historical background on
the Philippines. Discusses regional influences on cooking, traditional food
practices and customs, traditional beliefs about food and health, diabetes among
Filipino Americans and the nutritional implications of current dietary
practices.
Ordering Information:
American Dietetic
Association
120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000
Chicago, IL
60606-6995
Phone: 800-877-1600
Email: sales@eatright.org
Online
ordering: http://www.eatright.org/Public/ProductCatalog/SearchableProducts/104_8765.cfm
A Food Guide Pyramid with a Mexican Flavor (Piramide del Dia con el Sabor
Popular Mexicano Guia Para la Leccion)
Includes: 1
videocassette (16 min. English/14 min. Spanish) (VHS) and 1 bilingual lesson
plan
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Communication
Resources, 1999.
Description: Teaches Latinos of Mexican descent how
to use the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Guide Pyramid,
realize the importance and skills to apply this message in their
lives
Ordering Information:
DANR Communication
Services
Phone:
530-757-8930
Guía para Latinos, Como Comer Saludablemente (Guide to Healthy Eating for
Latinos)
Aracely Rosales
Philadelphia, PA: Health Promotion Council
of SEPA, 1995.
NAL Call Number: TX361.H57R672
1995
Description: None given.
Health Promotion Council of SEPA,
Inc
311 S Juniper St, Room 308
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone:
215-546-1276
Multicultural Pyramid Packet
Cheryl L Achterberg, Jeannie McKenzie,
and Farah Arosemena
University Park, PA: Penn State Nutrition Center, College
of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
NAL
Call Number: TX360.U62 1996
Description: Packet provides health
educators with a blueprint of foods eaten by various cultures living in the
United States.
Target Audience: Health Educators
Ordering
Information:
College of Health and Human
Development
Phone:
814-865-6323
Multicultural Snacks
Susan Hedges
Everest, WA: Warren
Publishing House, 1995. 47 pp.
NAL Call Number: TX725.A1H64
1995
Description: Contains traditional recipes from a variety of
cultures and features ingredients familiar to young children.
Target
audience: Young children
Navajo: Food Practices, Customs, and Holidays. 2nd Edition.
Karen
Bachman-Carter, Roberta M. Duncan, and Suzanne Pelican
Chicago, IL: American
Dietetic Association and Alexandria, VA: American Diabetes Association, 1998. 28
pp.
NAL Call Number: RC662.P45 1998
Description: This
publication provides information on culture, diet, and diabetes among the Navajo
Indians who live on or near the Navajo reservation encompassing a
25,000-square-mile area that extends into New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah.
Pir'amide del d'ia con el Sabor Popular Mexicano: a Food Pyramid for
Today's Mexican-American Family
University of California, Division of
Agriculture and Natural Resources, Communications Services
Includes:
1 videocassette (30 min.)
Davis, CA: University of California, Division
of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Communication Services, 1996.
NAL
Call Number: Videocassette no. 2888
Summary: This video features a
new food pyramid that addresses specific topics unique to the Mexican
culture.
Salud en Tus Manos (Health in Your Hands)
Carmen Moreno and
Felícita Bernier
Includes: 1 videocassette, 1 wall chart, 50
identical consumer magazines, 25 identical food shopping guides, 1 instructor's
guide, and 2 identical evaluation forms
New York, NY: CPC International, Best
Foods Division, 1996.
NAL Call Number: Kit no. 365
Description:
Provides a nutrition program specifically developed for Latinos. Divided
into six sessions covering a healthy Latino diet, the food label, the Food Guide
Pyramid, fat and cholesterol, salt and sodium, menu planning and feeding
children.
Target Audience: Latino eating preferences
Soul and Traditional Southern Food Practices, Customs, and
Holidays
Cathryn Boyd Burke and Susan P. Raia
Chicago, IL: The
American Dietetic Association; Alexandria, VA: American Diabetes Association,
1995. 29 pp.
NAL Call Number: RC662.B87
1995
Description: Focuses on soul, or traditional Southern food ways,
with a brief review of their origins and their impact on Type II diabetes
mellitus. Contains examples of traditional menus and recipes.
Target
Audience: People with southern soul food preferences
This is the Way We Eat Our Lunch: a Book about Children around the
World
Edith Baer
New York: Scholastic, 1995. 1 volume.
NAL Call
Number: jPZ8.3.B137 1995
Description: Relates in rhyme what
children eat in countries around the world.
Tribal Cooking: Traditional Stories and Favorite Recipes
Wisconsin:
Minwanjigewin Nutrition Project, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc., 1996.
122 pp.
NAL Call Number: E98.F7T74-1996
Description: A
collection of recipes received from members of various tribes who have chosen to
share a part of their family history.
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This resource list was compiled by:
Cameron Dixon,
R.D.
Stephanie McCarthy, R.D.
Acknowledgment is given to the following FNIC reviewers:
Elizabeth Hill, R.D., Nutrition Information Specialist
This publication was developed through a Cooperative Agreement between the Food and Nutrition Information Center and the Department of Nutrition and Food Science in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland.
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