Home monitors will be handing out the new 2025 Nutrition Calendar at your next home visit. This year, kids will get to unleash their imaginations with "Curiosity and the Cat".

Each month highlights CACFP meal patterns, best practices, snack suggestions as well as healthy recipes, nutrition tips, and table and physical activities. In addition to this valuable nutrition education resource, each month's calendar page has oversized squares for recording important events. The Nutrition Calendar & Record-Keeping System has additional pages each month for business recordkeeping.

All grains served on the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) must be enriched, whole grain, or whole grain-rich (WGR). Corn that has been treated with slaked lime (nixtamalized) is considered WGR in Child Nutrition Programs.

Tortilla chips made with non-grain ingredients (e.g. Cassava flour, Coconut flour, Tigernut flour, Tapioca flour, vegetables or vegetable flour, bean/nut flours) or in dessert flavors (e.g. Cinnamonsugar) are not creditable as a grain.

Tortilla chips must meet one of the following criteria to be creditable:
• Enriched with vitamins and minerals
• Made of whole corn -- (WGR)
• Treated with slaked lime (nixtamalized) -- (WGR). The following phrases indicate the corn has been treated with slaked lime (nixtamalized):

Trace of lime • Treated with lime • Ground corn with trace of lime • Ground corn treated with lime • Masa harina • Masa flour • Corn masa flour • Calcium Hydroxide

Fall Apple Pumpkin Oatmeal

Owl Rice Cakes

Harvest Salsa

The National CACFP Association has developed extra monthly resources to go along with your calendar. The Parent Connections monthly newsletters are ready for you to add your own info at the bottom of the page; and the activity pages contain recipes, craft activities, movement activities and more.

Looking for free training hours? Check out our website for all of the available at-home training modules. SENDCAA training hours are Growing Futures approved and free to SENDCAA providers and their staff.

Can't remember which trainings you have completed? Log in to your Growing Futures account to see all the trainings in one list. Once logged in, choose the training tab along the top to view all your approved trainings. The most recent will be at the top of the list. 

Contact Us

Fargo Main Office

3233 University Dr S
Fargo, ND 58104

Phone: 701-232-2452
Toll-free: 1-800-726-7960
E-mail: foodprogram@sendcaa.org
Website: www.sendcaa.org/foodprogram

In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at:  https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-3027.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:

1. Mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;
2. Fax: (833)256-1665 or (202)690-7442; or
3. Email: program.intake@usda.gov.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.