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SilverSabre25 01:44 PM 01-18-2011
I'm not in MN but I'm also not on the food program. You can serve pretty much whatever you want. I do tend to come *almost* up to food program standards (I don't always offer milk to drink with meals; I think that's a silly requirement when there are so many other foods that give the same nutrients in more bioavailable forms, but I digress).

Anyway, you asked about what processed/minimally processed foods we use. Personally, I avoid processed food like the plague, and serve as natural and organic as possible. I do purchase crackers, bread, condiments, organic macaroni and cheese, pasta, spaghetti sauce, organic frozen waffles, and selected canned fruits (all packed in 100% juice--peaches, pineapple, pears, fruit cocktail occasionally--the ones that are hard to get ripe). Veggies are all fresh or frozen. Chicken is organic (I buy it frozen and occasionally canned from Trader Joe's) and beef is free-range, grass-fed, organic (we buy fractions of cow from a family farmer in the area.
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