Child and Adult Care Food Program
Program Goals

CACFP's commitment is to help improve the health of children and adults throughout Montana. To achieve this goal, CACFP encourages daycare providers to:

1. Offer a wide variety of nutritious foods and beverages, for optimal growth and development;

2. Serve iron fortified infant formula, milk with meals, and low-fat milk to appropriate age groups, providing calcium for development, growth and strong bones;

3. Serve foods and meats low in fat, to reduce saturated and trans fats, and cholesterol intake;

4. Choose and prepare foods with little salt or added sugar, to maintain a healthy body weight and reduce risk of chronic disease;

5. Serve foods made with enriched or whole grains, to provide fiber and maintain a healthy body weight;

6. Serve foods with, at least, 1 good source of vitamin A every other day, for healthy eyesight, skin, hair and brain development;

7. Serve foods with, at least, 1 good source of vitamin C every day, as an antioxidant, aiding in the body's absorption of Iron;

8. Serve foods with 3 to 4 good sources of Iron daily, to carry oxygen through the body, maintain energy levels and growth of cells;

9. Engage children in 60 minutes a day of regular physical activity, to promote overall health, psychological well-being and healthy body weight.