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The Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs includes:

• hundreds of food items, yields and pack sizes for existing foods,
• assistance when estimating the amount of food to purchase and the contribution of an item toward meal pattern requirements,
• recipe analysis, child nutrition labeling and food purchasing; and
• a resource section detailing food service, food preparation, food safety and menu planning publications

Online Resources

• View the Food Buying Guide on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) website.
• View a brief overview of the Food Buying Guide (22 PowerPoint slides — 5.5 MB).
• View a detailed overview of the Food Buying Guide (33 PowerPoint slides — 6.2 MB).
• View the latest supplements to the Food Buying Guide.

These overviews require either PowerPoint or the free PowerPoint reader. You can download free PowerPoint, Excel, and MS Word viewers from Microsoft.

• View a sample of the yield changes that occurred between the 1995 version and the 2001 version of the Food Buying Guide:
  • Sample Yield Changes for Commonly Used Grains/Breads (PDF)
  • Sample Yield Changes for Commonly Used Vegetables/Fruits (PDF).

Documents in PDF format require the use of the free Adobe Reader, which can be downloaded from Adobe Systems, Inc. You can also download the free Acrobat Accessibility Reader for PDFs.