Section R9-3-406. General Nutrition and Menu Standards

A.      This Section does not apply to infants.

B.       A certificate holder shall ensure that meals and snacks are served to enrolled children in compliance with Table 4.1.

C.      When a child care group home provides food for enrolled chil- dren, the certificate holder shall ensure that:

1.        Each meal or snack is prepared and served according to the meal pattern requirements in Table 4.2;

2.        Second servings of food are served to each enrolled child at meal time and snack time, if requested by the enrolled child;

3.        The same food item, other than milk, is not served more than once in a single day;

4.        During each week, meals include a variety of foods from each food category in the meal pattern requirements in Table 4.2;

5.        Unless an enrolled child’s parent requests otherwise, milk served to the enrolled child is:

a.        Fat-free or 1% low-fat milk for an enrolled child older than two years of age; and

b.        Whole milk for an enrolled child two years of age or younger;

6.        Only pasteurized milk is served;

7.        Reconstituted dry milk is not served to meet the fluid milk requirement;

8.        Juice served to enrolled children for a meal or snack is pasteurized full-strength 100% vegetable juice, fruit juice, or fruit and vegetable juice combination from an original, commercially filled container or reconstituted from a concentrate according to manufacturer directions;

9.        A beverage sweetened with any kind of sugar product is not provided by the child care group home; and

10.     High fat or high sugar food items such as muffins, brown- ies, donuts, pastries, croissants, cakes, or cookies are served to satisfy a meal or snack category no more than twice each week.

D.      If a parent who provides food for the parent’s enrolled child does not provide milk or juice for the enrolled child, the certif- icate holder shall provide milk or juice to the enrolled child unless doing so would be inconsistent with a modified diet prescribed for the enrolled child by the child’s parent, physi- cian, physician assistant, or registered nurse practitioner.

E.       A certificate holder shall ensure that a staff member maintains a supply of food sufficient to serve the meals and snacks required by this Section to be served to each enrolled child attending the child care group home in a single day.

F.       A certificate holder shall ensure that a staff member:

1.        Prepares a weekly menu specifying the foods to be served at each meal and snack on each day,

2.        Dates each menu, and

3.        Writes food substitutions on a posted menu no later than the morning of the day of the meal or snack to which the substitution applies.

Historical Note

New Section made by final rulemaking at 10 A.A.R. 1214, effective September 1, 2004 (Supp. 04-1). Section repealed; new R9-3-406 renumbered from R9-3-410 and amended by exempt rulemaking at 17 A.A.R. 1530, effective September 30, 2011 (Supp. 11-3).