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Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs

Resource type
Guidance Documents
Training and Outreach

The Food Buying Guide (FBG) is the essential resource for food yield information for all child nutrition programs (CNP). The FBG assists CNP operators, food manufacturers, and other stakeholders with:

  • Purchasing the correct amounts of foods for CNP.
  • Determining the contribution that each food makes toward meal pattern requirements.

The Food Buying Guide is available as an Interactive Web-based Tool, Mobile App, and downloadable PDF.

Page updated: September 24, 2024