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CHAPTER 11
MANAGING FOOD SERVICE
SHORT ANSWER
1. If at least twenty-five percent of the children in your center or child-care home are needy, they
may qualify for __________.
2. What organism is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States? ________
served at your center?
1 ___________________
2 ___________________
3 ___________________
4 ___________________
4. Obesity in children is encouraged by which four factors?
1 ___________________
2 ___________________
3 ___________________
4 ___________________
5. Katz and Chard list four categories
experiences with food. What are they?
1 ___________________
2 ___________________
3 ___________________
4 ___________________
TRUE OR FALSE
Please circle the correct answer.
1. Before deciding on kitchen and other food service equipment, you should always know what
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true
false
2. When feeding an infant, the baby should be held to promote one-on-one contact.
true
false
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meals can create a conflict that
requires imagination to resolve.
true
false
4. When it comes to decisions about what children should eat, advertising and peer pressure are
much less potent forces than the guidance of parents.
true
false
5. When they begin kindergarten, children who have been in childcare are much more likely to
be obese than children who have not been in child care.
true
false
-related
issues.
true
false
7. Food is such
the effort.
true
false
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Select the best answer.
1. Mandatory minimum standards for the nutritional content of meals in a childcare facility have
been set by:
a. NAEYC.
b. each state legislature.
c. each county board of commissioners.
d. USDA.
2. What is a primary reason for assigning a primary caregiver to each infant or toddler in care?
a.
b. Babies need extended contact with the same caregiver.
c. Babies can get sick if too many people handle them.
d. none of the above.
3. Menus that have a predictable 15– to 20-day sequence of foods that are offered over and over
are known as:
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a. boring menus.
b. vegetarian menus.
c. cycle menus.
d. South Beach menus.
4. Sometimes children are allergic to specific foods, such as peanuts. If a parent says that her
daughter has a food allergy, you should:
a. tell the parent that he or she will have to bring food for the child.
b. make sure that the item in question never appears on the menu.
c.
d.
staff not to serve that food to the child.
5. In Reggio Emilia, the practice with meals is to:
a. send the children home for lunch.
b. eat at tables, with the children in charge of table settings and seating arrangements.
c. have the children bring sack lunches from home.
d. have the children serve themselves cafeteria-style.
6. If a child does not want to eat the food put before her at your center, you should:
a. tell her that she cannot play with the others until she finishes her meal.
b. offer her a special treat if she does eat the meal.
c. threaten to tell her parents.
d. none of the above
7. At meal times, an adult should sit and eat with each group of children in order to:
a. meet socialization goals.
b. keep the children from acting up.
c. report to parents what they ate.
d. none of the above.
8. The parents of one of the children at your center insist that they do not want their child to eat
consistently fail to meet the nutritional guidelines that you have to follow. What is the best thing
for you to try first?
a. Ignore the situation: i
b. Report the family for suspected neglect.
c. Discuss the problem with the parents.
d. Secretly give the child extra food.
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