Offered in this guide are facts enabling family day care providers in Michigan to serve meals meeting meal pattern requirements of the state's Child Care Food Program. Adapted from the "Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs," contents are based on the latest Federal regulations and meal pattern requirements, current food production and marketing techniques, packaging methods, and grading standards. Introductory information explains the yield data tables, how to calculate the quantity of food needed, and how to use additional yield information. Foods are classified according to meal pattern components of the Child Care Food Program: meat and meat alternatives, vegetables and fruits, bread and bread alternates, and milk. In that order, sections 1 through 4 of the guide concern foods in those categories. The yield data tables furnish information about food as purchased, the purchase unit, servings per purchase unit, serving size or portion, and, when relevant, additional yield information. Appended are a chart of meal pattern requirements, a chart of bread and bread alternates, and tables concerning abbreviations and symbols, volume equivalents, decimal equivalents of commonly used fractions, and metric equivalents. (RH)