SAFE FOOD PREPERATION FOR CHILDRENS

Keep Food Safe, Healthy, and Appealing
Good food handling practices will help you keep food safe, healthy, and appealing.
Properly freeze, thaw, prepare, cook, cool, and serve all foods offered to children.

• Follow food safety rules about storage, temperature controls, hygiene, and sanitation.
• Follow local health department codes.
• Date all foods and use oldest foods first.
• Leave room for air to move around stored food in the refrigerator, freezer, and storeroom.
• Cover all food in the refrigerator and freezer.
• Limit added salt, fat, and sugar in preparation.
• Use herbs, spices, marinades, stocks, and fruit and vegetable juices to add flavor.
• Make shapes, size, color, texture, flavor, and quality of foods appealing to children