# Requirements for meals.
**AGENCY:**
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), USDA.
**ACTION:**
Correcting amendments.
**SUMMARY:**
On September 25, 2019, the Food and Nutrition Service published meal pattern tables in Agency rules. This document corrects the presentation of tables in the final rule.
**DATES:**
*Effective Date:* February 12, 2020.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Andrea Farmer, 703-305-2590, *[email protected].*
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The Food and Nutrition Service published a final rule, *Delayed Implementation of Grains Ounce Equivalents in the Child and Adult Care Food Program,* in the *Federal Register* at 84 FR 50287, on September 25, 2019. The final rule included tables presenting meal pattern requirements for the service of meals to infants in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, National School Lunch Program, and School Breakfast Program. However, the published meal pattern tables did not clearly present the information meal planners need to determine which meal components are required and how much of a food item contributes to a reimbursable meal for infants 6 through 11 months. For ease of readers, this document displays the infant meal pattern tables at 7 CFR 210.10(o)(4)(ii), 210.10(q)(2), 220.8(p)(2), and 226.20(b)(5). This document also displays the preschool snack meal pattern table at 7 CFR 210.10(o)(3)(ii).
**List of Subjects**
National School Lunch Program, Meal requirements for lunches and requirements for afterschool snacks.
School Breakfast Program, Meal requirements for breakfasts.
Child and Adult Care Food Program, Requirements for meals.
Accordingly, 7 CFR parts 210, 220, and 226 are corrected by making the following correcting amendments:
**PART 210—NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM**
**7 CFR Part 210**
1. The authority citation for part 210 continues to read as follows:
**Authority:**
42 U.S.C. 1751-1760, 1779.
**7 CFR Part 210**
2. In § 210.10, revise the meal pattern tables in paragraphs (o)(3)(ii), (o)(4)(ii), and (q)(2) to read as follows:
§ 210.10
(o) * * *
(3) * * *
(ii) *Preschooler snack meal pattern table.* The minimum amounts of food components to be served at snack are as follows:
| Food components and food items | Minimum quantities | Ages 1-2 | Ages 3-5 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fluid Milk | 4 fluid ounces | 4 fluid ounces. | |
| Meat/Meat Alternates (edible portion as served): | | | |
| Lean meat, poultry, or fish | ounce | ounce. | |
| Tofu, soy products, or alternate protein products | ounce | ounce. | |
| Cheese | ounce | ounce. | |
| Large egg | | . | |
| Cooked dry beans or peas | cup | cup. | |
| Peanut butter or soy nut butter or other nut or seed butters | 1 tablespoon | 1 tablespoon. | |
| Yogurt, plain or flavored unsweetened or sweetened | 2 ounces or
cup | 2 ounces or
cup. | |
| Peanuts, soy nuts, tree nuts, or seeds | ounce | ounce. | |
| Vegetables | cup | cup. | |
| Fruits | cup | cup. | |
| Grains (ounce equivalent): | | | |
| Whole grain-rich or enriched bread | slice | slice. | |
| Whole grain-rich or enriched bread product, such as biscuit, roll, or muffin | serving | serving. | |
| Whole grain-rich, enriched, or fortified cooked breakfast cereal,
cereal grain, and/or pasta | cup | cup. | |
| Whole grain-rich, enriched, or fortified ready-to-eat cereal (dry, cold) | | | |
| Flakes or rounds | cup | cup. | |
| Puffed cereal | cup | cup. | |
| Granola | cup | cup. | |
(4) * * *
(ii) *Infant snack meal pattern table.* The minimum amounts of food components to be served at snack are as follows:
| Age birth through 5 months | Age 6 through 11 months |
| --- | --- |
| 4-6 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula | 2-4 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula;
and |
(q) * * *
(2) *Infant lunch meal pattern table.* The minimum amounts of food components to be served at lunch are as follows:
| Age birth through 5 months | Age 6 through 11 months |
| --- | --- |
| 4-6 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula | 6-8 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula;
and |
**PART 220—SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM**
**7 CFR Part 220**
3. The authority citation for part 220 continues to read as follows:
**Authority:**
42 U.S.C. 1773, 1779, unless otherwise noted.
**7 CFR Part 220**
4. In § 220.8, revise the meal pattern table in paragraph (p)(2) to read as follows:
§ 220.8
(p) * * *
(2) *Infant breakfast meal pattern table.* The minimum amounts of food components to be served at breakfast are as follows:
| Age birth through 5 months | Age 6 through 11 months |
| --- | --- |
| 4-6 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula | 6-8 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula;
and |
**PART 226—CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM**
**7 CFR Part 226**
5. The authority citation for 7 CFR part 226 continues to read as follows:
**Authority:**
Secs. 9, 11, 14, 16, and 17, Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 1758, 1759a, 1762a, 1765 and 1766.
**7 CFR Part 226**
6. In § 226.20, revise the meal pattern table in paragraph (b)(5) to read as follows:
§ 226.20
(b) * * *
(5) *Infant meal pattern table.* The minimum amounts of food components to serve to infants, as described in paragraph (b)(4) of this section, are:
| Infants | Age birth through 5 months | Age 6 through 11 months |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Breakfast, Lunch, or Supper | 4-6 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula | 6-8 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula;
and |
| Snack | 4-6 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula | 2-4 fluid ounces breastmilk
or formula;
and |
Dated: January 14, 2020.
Pamilyn Miller,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.