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Covers breakfast, lunch, and supper, specifying selection rules for reimbursable meals and presenting fluid milk, vegetables/fruits, meat/meat alternates, and grains/bread equivalents. 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Offer versus serve is not allowed at snack.  \n• ² Participants 13 to 18 years of age may only be served by at-risk afterschool meal programs and emergency shelters.  \n• ³ Must be unflavored whole milk for children age one; unflavored whole milk, unflavored reduced-fat milk, unflavored low-fat (1%) milk, or unflavored fat-free (skim) milk for children two through five years; unflavored or flavored whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, or fat-free milk for children 6 years and older. Breastmilk is an allowable substitute for milk for children of any age.  \n• ⁴Juice may only be served at one meal or snack per day. Juice must be pasteurized, and 100% juice.  \n• ⁵At least one serving per day across all meals and/or snacks must be whole grain-rich.  \n• ⁶ Meat and meat alternates may be used to meet the entire grains component at breakfast a maximum of three times per week. One ounce of meat/meat alternate is equal to one ounce equivalent of grains. If yogurt is served as a M/MA, please see note 8 below.  \n• ⁷ Breakfast cereal must contain no more than six grams of added sugars per dry ounce.  \n• ⁸Yogurt must contain no more than 12 grams of added sugars per six ounces (two grams of added sugars per ounce) .  \n• ⁹A second different vegetable may be served to meet the entire fruit component.  \n• ¹⁰Only one of the two meal components for snack may be a beverage.  \n• 11Sponsors and sites serving primarily American Indian or Alaska Native participants can substitute any vegetable to meet the grain requirement. A vegetable can be used to meet the daily whole grain-rich requirement as long asthe minimum serving size is met. In order to meet one ounce equivalent of grains, sponsors must serve one-half cup of vegetables or one cup of leafy greens. 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