Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. All
meals and snacks provided by the center, and their preparation, service and
storage, shall meet the requirements for meals of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP),
7 CFR
226.20, and LAC 51:XXIII.
B. The weekly menu shall:
1. be planned for each day of the week at a
minimum and list the specific food items served;
2. be prominently posted, written or
electronically, by the first day of each week at a minimum and remain posted
throughout the week; and
3. have
substitutions or additions posted, written or electronically, on or near the
menu.
C. Food Allergies
and Special Diets
1. Information regarding
food allergies and special diets of children shall be posted in the food
preparation area with special care taken to ensure that individual names of
children are not in public view. If a parent chooses to allow the center to
post the child's name and allergy information in public view, the center shall
obtain a signed and dated authorization from the parent.
2. Children with allergies or special diets
shall not be served foods identified as restricted by the parent.
D. A minimum of a breakfast or
morning snack, lunch, and afternoon snack shall be served to children, and
meals and snacks shall be served not more than three hours apart.
1. Centers that do not serve breakfast shall
have nutritious food available for children who arrive in the morning without
having eaten breakfast.
2. Children
under age four shall not have foods that are implicated in choking incidents.
Examples of these foods include, but are not limited to: whole hot dogs, hot
dogs sliced in rounds, raw carrot rounds, whole grapes, hard candy, nuts,
seeds, raw peas, hard pretzels, hard chips with the exception of puffs,
peanuts, popcorn, whole marshmallows other than when melted in other foods or
found in boxed cereals, spoons of peanut butter, and chunks of meat larger than
what can be swallowed whole.
3.
Children shall be allowed a reasonable time to eat each meal and snack.
Children shall not be forced to finish all their food.
4. Food shall be given to children on
individual plates, cups, napkins, or paper towels, as appropriate, and
individual utensils shall be provided, as appropriate.
5. Drinking water shall be readily available
indoors and outdoors to children at all times. Water shall be given to infants
only with written instructions from parents or a physician.
E. Parents shall be allowed to
provide breast milk or provided space to breastfeed their child on
site.
F. Centers may allow parents
to bring food into the center.
G.
Parents of all children in a class with a child with allergies shall be advised
to avoid any known allergies in class treats or food brought into the
center.
H. Infants that cannot hold
a bottle shall be held while being bottle-fed. A child shall not be placed
lying down on a mat or otherwise with a bottle, sippy cup, etc. A bottle shall
not be propped at any time.
I.
Microwave ovens shall not be used for warming bottles or infant food.
J. Bottled formula/breast milk for infants
shall be labeled with the childs name.
AUTHORITY
NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
17:6 and
17:407.40(A)(4).
