Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5101:2 - Division of Social Services › Chapter 5101:2-13 - Licensing Family Care Homes › Section 5101:2-13-22 - Meal preparation/nutritional requirements for a licensed family child care provider

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) What are the requirements for meals and
			 snacks for a licensed family child care provider?
The family child care provider is to:
(1) Serve varied, nutritious and
			 appropriately timed meals and snacks as described in appendix A to this
			 rule.
(2) Follow the portion sizes
			 and nutritional requirements for meals and snacks described in appendix B to
			 this rule.
(3) Serve food that is
			 not a choking hazard, and that is developmentally appropriate in size, amount
			 and texture.
(4) Provide meals and
			 snacks according to the posted current weekly menu, and spaced no more than
			 four hours apart.
(a) The menus shall be
			 posted in a visible place readily accessible to parents.
(b) The menus shall include all meals and
			 snacks being served by the provider, any substitutions shall be noted at the
			 time of the change.
(5)
			 Serve only one hundred per cent, undiluted fruit or vegetable juice, if used to meet the fruit or vegetable requirement for
			 meals and snacks. Other fruit or vegetable juice
			 is permitted as a beverage alternative.
(6)
									Ensure that supplemental food is onsite at the home and
			 that no child goes more than four hours without at least a snack or meal,
			 except when sleeping.
(7) Obtain a
			 physician's written instructions if administering a medical food  to any child or if an entire food group
			 is eliminated. When special diets are required for cultural or religious
			 reasons, the provider shall obtain written, dated and signed instructions from
			 the child's parent unless the special diet is part of the provider's program.
(8) Set its own policy
			 regarding the accommodation of a parent's alternate diet for a child when the
			 provider provides the meal. The provider shall ensure that any
			 alternate diet, except those required for religious, cultural or medical
			 reasons as specified in paragraph (A)(7) of this rule,
			 include items from each of the following food
			 groups: meat or meat alternative, grain, fruit/ vegetable,
			 fluid
			 milk.
(9) Provide for the
			 safe storage of all food, including milk (formula and
			 breast milk for infants). If safe storage of milk is not available on
			 routine trips or field trips, milk may be served at snack instead of at the
			 meal. Potentially hazardous foods such as, but not limited to, milk, milk
			 products, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, cooked rice, baked or boiled potatoes
			 shall be refrigerated at a temperature at or below forty degrees
			 Fahrenheit.
(10)
									Have provisions for safe storage of parent provided
			 food.
(11) Have drinking
			 water freely available to children throughout the day.
(12)
			 Ensure individual servings or individual packages of food or drink that have
			 been served to a child be discarded or sent home with the child if not consumed
			 during meal or snack time. Food or drink that is individually packaged and the
			 package has not been opened may be stored at the provider's home to be served
			 again or sent home.
(13) Not have screens
			 (television, computer, etc.) on during meals and snacks.