Lunch Meat on Food Program
 

I'm trying to find out if there are any good brands of lunch meat (turkey or ham) that do not contain by-products, cereal, or extenders. I'd like to add a lunch meat sandwich to my menu next week and this is the first time serving it while on the food program. I looked in my Credit Book and it lists that lunch meat can't contain any of that stuff.

Is it hard to find good products without those things in places like Wal-Mart or Kroger?

I don't know of any. What I do is cook a ham or turkey and slice it thin enough for a deli sandwich, freeze it for later, thaw and use.

Well, that didn't copy so well :mad:, but I copied this from my food program information on lunch meat.

Carl Budding Turkey: Smoked, Sliced CN # 72354 1 package = Meat 1.5 package = Meat Carl Buddig Ham: Smoked with Natural Juices, Sliced CN # 72352 .75 package = Meat 1 package = Meat Great Value 97% Fat Free Honey Ham Water Added 7874211468 1.5 = Meat 2 = Meat Hillshire Farm Deli Select Rotisserie Chicken Breast 97750 3 = Meat 4.5 = Meat Hillshire Farm Deli Select Honey Ham Water Added 97648 2 = Meat 3 = Meat
Hillshire Farm
Deli Select Oven Roasted Turkey Breast Browned with Caramel Color 98461 2 = Meat 3.5 = Meat
Hillshire Farm
Variety Pack-Oven Roasted Turkey and Honey Ham Water Added 32982 3.75 = Meat 5.5 = Meat Hormel Original Pepperoni Slice 39885 19 = Meat 30 = Meat Hormel Turkey Pepperoni Slice 18808 18 = Meat 26 = Meat Hormel Natural Choice Cooked Deli Ham 13280 2.5 = Meat 4 = Meat Hormel Natural Choice Honey Deli Ham 26030 4 = Meat 6 = Meat Hormel Natural Choice Smoked Deli Ham 13282 2.5 = Meat 4 = Meat Hormel Natural Choice Oven Roasted Deli Turkey 13260 3 = Meat 4.5 = Meat
6/23/2014
John Morrell HAM: DELI SMOKED SLICED .5oz FC REFRIGERATED MF # 2085 1.5 = Meat 2.5 = Meat John Morrell HAM: WATER ADDED DELI CKD SLICED .67oz REFRIGERATED MF # 2086 1.5 = Meat 2.5 = Meat John Morrell TURKEY: BRST DELI FOR SLICING .67 oz REFRIGERATED MF# 2083 3 = Meat 5 = Meat Sara Lee Hardwood Smoked Turkey Breast 17439 3 = Meat 4.5 = Meat Sara Lee Honey Ham 17446 3 = Meat 4 = Meat Sara Lee Oven Roasted Turkey Breast 17440 2 = Meat 3 = Meat Sara Lee Virginia Ham 17438 2 = Meat 3 = Meat Tyson® Black Forest Ham 0-23700-03695 7 2 = Meat 3 = Meat
Tyson® Deli Slices Premium Oven Roasted Turkey Breast, Extra Lean 0-31400-02353 5 & 300-31400-02353 6 Tyson® Deli Slices Favorites Cooked Ham WA, Extra Lean 0-31400-02360 3 300-31400-02360 4 Tyson® Roast Beef, 20% Added Solution 0-31400-02367 2 300-31400-02367 3 Tyson® Deli Slices Premium Black Forest Ham WA, Extra Lean 0-31400-02347 4 300-31400-02347 5 2.5 = Meat 4 = Meat 5 = Meat 7.5 = Meat 2 = Meat 3 = Meat

Butterfly, are all of those safe to use, then? Honestly, I look at all of those numbers and I go cross eyed :lol:

Luv - that sounds amazing and I'm going to have to try that when the weather cools down.

I never knew that we could only serve certain lunch meats! Oopsies, We don't have lunch meat very often, but I've been giving them whatever I buy!

Originally Posted by melilley:
I never knew that we could only serve certain lunch meats! Oopsies, We don't have lunch meat very often, but I've been giving them whatever I buy!

It's probably different for different programs. Hot dogs also fall under the category of no by products, cereals, or extenders for my sponsor. Honestly, when I do serve hot dogs I just buy one that says 100% beef and pray they don't come on that day because I have no idea if that's the right thing. :o

Originally Posted by craftymissbeth:
Butterfly, are all of those safe to use, then? Honestly, I look at all of those numbers and I go cross eyed :lol:

Luv - that sounds amazing and I'm going to have to try that when the weather cools down.

Yes. These are all creditable. It states how many slices needed for a serving for each age group. But I do as PP stated about slicing real meat thin. Easier than shopping for certain brands and counting slices....

Originally Posted by butterfly:
Yes. These are all creditable. It states how many slices needed for a serving for each age group. But I do as PP stated about slicing real meat thin. Easier than shopping for certain brands and counting slices....

Thank you!

Try going to sdstate.edu/tll/frn/cacfp.cfm and click on the link to the right that says updated child nutrition labels. Hopefully that will be easier to read.

Originally Posted by butterfly:
Try going to sdstate.edu/tll/frn/cacfp.cfm and click on the link to the right that says updated child nutrition labels. Hopefully that will be easier to read.

This will list corn dogs, pizza, hot dogs, etc too....

That's very helpful... thank you again!

We buy Hormel Natural Choice because there's no nitrates/nitrites.