Shopping Guide California WIC Authorized Food List - April 2, 2019 (Revised)
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California WIC Authorized Food List Shopping Guide April 2, 2019 (Revised)
The New California
WIC Card!
California WIC is moving from
paper checks to an electronic
card. Shopping with the new
WIC Card will be easier than
using paper checks.
During this time, some WIC families will have
paper checks and others will have a WIC Card.
This WIC Authorized Food List Shopping Guide
includes information on how to use both.
The New California WIC Card!
Ways to Find a WIC Authorized Grocery Store
• Use the free WIC phone app on your smart phone.
• Go to www.myfamily.wic.ca.gov.
• Look for the WIC logo near the front door or window of the store.
• Ask your local WIC office for a list of stores in your area.
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At the Checkout
Start your checkout
• Separate your WIC foods from your non-WIC items. Some stores may
need to scan your WIC items first.
• Tell the cashier you are using your
WIC Card.
• Ask the cashier when to swipe
your WIC Card and enter your PIN.
• Always swipe your WIC Card
first before using other forms of
payment, such as CalFresh, debit
card, or cash.
• Pay close attention as the cashier
scans each WIC item.
Using Your After the cashier scans all your items
California WIC Card • Look over your WIC purchases and make sure all items are correct
Using Your California WIC Card
Using Your California WIC Card
before your sale is totaled. The cashier may give you a receipt or
show you a screen to review.
Before You Go Shopping • Confirm all your purchases are correct using the card machine.
Your WIC Food Balance shows the foods and the amounts available to Any foods not available in your WIC Food Balance can be put back
your family between specific dates. As you shop and use your WIC foods, or bought using another form of payment.
your Food Balance will change. Be sure to shop for all of the foods in • Tell the cashier if you want to put something back before the cashier
your WIC Food Balance within the allowed dates. gives you the final receipt.
• Give the cashier your store loyalty card and any coupons you have.
There are many ways to find your WIC Food Balance
• Pay for any non-WIC items using another form of payment.
• Use the free WIC phone app on your smart phone. • Wait for the cashier to complete the sale and give you a final receipt.
• Get a printout at your WIC office. Save your receipt in a safe place, such as your wallet.
• Look at your store receipt from your last shopping trip.
• Ask a cashier or customer service person at the store to print your Reading Your Receipt
WIC Food Balance.
• Your receipt lists the items you just bought.
• Call the toll free number on the back of your WIC Card,
• Your receipt shows what you have left in your WIC Food Balance.
1-844-4MY-FAMILY or 1-844-469-3264.
All family benefits are combined.
• Go online to www.myfamily.wic.ca.gov.
• The receipt shows the last day you can buy the rest of your WIC foods.
Your WIC Food Balance will expire at midnight on that day.
At the Store
• Get just the WIC foods you need at When You Have Questions
each shopping trip. About WIC Authorized
• Use your WIC Authorized Food List Foods or Your WIC Card
Shopping Guide, the free WIC phone
app, and your WIC Food Balance to • Use the free WIC phone app.
help you choose the right foods. • Call 1-844-4MY-FAMILY or 1-844-469-3264.
• Separate your WIC foods from your • Contact your local WIC office.
non-WIC items as you shop to make
checkout easier.
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Using Your WIC Checks
The “Exact Purchase Price”
1 Take your signed WIC ID Folder with you 7 is then filled in by the cashier
to the store. on each check at the register.
After the purchase price has been
8 entered, sign your WIC checks
in front of the cashier.
Your alternate on file with WIC
must sign your WIC ID Folder
9 before they shop for you.
Teach your alternate how to
shop with WIC checks.
Use your checks starting on
the “First Day to Use” and
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Using Your WIC Checks
Using Your WIC Checks
no later than the “Last Day
to Use.” You must buy the full amount of formula printed on the
10 Infant Formula WIC checks. You may, however, choose to buy
Look at “What to buy” less of the other foods printed on the checks.
on your check. Choose WIC
3 authorized foods using your
The WIC Fruits and Vegetables check has a printed dollar value.
WIC Authorized Food List
Shopping Guide. 11 If your purchase costs more than the amount on the check, you
may pay the extra amount.
Group your WIC foods
4 by each check.
Important WIC Authorized Food List
Shopping Guide Information
Authorized food items are specific to each individual food category and
subcategory. For WIC EBT, all authorized products must be included in
CDPH’s Authorized Product List. For a copy of the Authorized Product
Tell the cashier right List, visit the California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal at:
5 away that you are using https://data.chhs.ca.gov.
WIC checks.
If a manufacturer makes a Non-material Change to an authorized Brand
Specific product, CDPH will continue to authorize that food for purchase.
Non-material Changes include changes to brand name, product name,
and/or product or logo artwork.
The WIC Authorized Food List Shopping Guide can be downloaded from
Give your WIC ID Folder and the WIC website at www.wicworks.ca.gov. If you are a WIC participant,
6 checks to the cashier. you can also get a copy from your local WIC office.
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If You Have No Added Sugars — Shopping Tips
Problems at the Added sugars are not allowed in some WIC foods, such as juice, canned
Grocery Store fruits, frozen fruits and vegetables, and dried fruits. Foods lower in sugars
help prevent obesity, diabetes, some cancers, and tooth decay.
• Ask to speak with the store
manager. Sugar has many names. Some other names include:
• Contact your local WIC office if • Agave or • Dextrose • Maltodextrin
you are not satisfied, or
agave syrup • Evaporated • Maltose
• Contact the State WIC Program • Barley malt cane juice • Maple sugar
at 1-800-852-5770 or
• Brown sugar • Fructose • Molasses
wic@cdph.ca.gov.
• Cane syrup • Glucose • Powdered sugar
• Save your store receipt.
• Corn sugar • High-fructose • Raw sugar
• Report the following information:
• Corn syrup corn syrup
» date,
• Sucrose
• Honey
» time,
» store name,
» names of the store staff Artificial, reduced-calorie, and no-calorie sweeteners are
involved, and also NOT allowed. Some names for them are:
» details of the situation. • Acesulfame • Monk fruit • Stevia
potassium • Nectresse • Sucralose
Shopping Tips
Shopping Tips
• Aspartame • NutraSweet • Truvia
• Malitol • Sorbitol • Xylitol
• Maltitol • Splenda
Smart Shopping
Tips Check the ingredients for added sugars or sweeteners.
See example of labels for canned pineapple below.
Here are some tips for
stretching your WIC benefits
Can Buy Cannot Buy
and food dollars:
• Check store ads and Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1/2 Cup (122g)
Nutrition Facts
websites for sales. Serving Size 1/2 Cup (122g)
Amount Per Serving
• Create a weekly meal plan Amount Per Serving
Calories 70 Calories from Fat 0 Calories 110 Calories from Fat 0
based on sale items. % Daily Value*
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g 0%
• Make a grocery list. Total Fat 0g 0%
Saturated Fat 0g 0% Saturated Fat 0g 0%
• Use grocery store loyalty cards. Trans Fat 0g 0% Trans Fat 0g 0%
• Use coupons. Cholesterol 0mg 0% Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 0mg 0% Sodium 0mg 0%
• Buy store or generic brands. Potassium 150mg 4% Potassium 95mg 3%
• Take advantage of “buy one, get Total Carbohydrate 16g 5% Total Carbohydrate 26g 9%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
one free” specials. Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Sugars 15g Sugars 25g
• Buy fresh fruits and vegetables Protein less than 1g Protein 0g
that are in season. Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 25% Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 20%
Calcium 0% Iron 2% Calcium 0% Iron 0%
INGREDIENTS: PINEAPPLE,
PINEAPPLE JUICE, CITRIC ACID, INGREDIENTS: PINEAPPLE, WATER,
ASCORBIC ACID SUGAR, CITRIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID
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Milk Cheese
Can Buy | Any brand, one (1) Can Buy | Any brand in 16 oz package of
gallon size, plain fluid cow’s milk. pasteurized and made in the USA cheese
Pasteurized or ultra-pasteurized.
MILK 1
LOWFAT %
NONFAT
MILK
in the varieties listed below. Regular, low
sodium, low fat, reduced fat, or nonfat.
• 1% Lowfat (light) Cannot Buy
Block or Round: Individually Wrapped Sticks:
• Nonfat (fat free, skim) • Any other type, flavor, or
size of milk Cheddar Cheese Mozzarella String Cheese
The following are
allowed if printed on the • Specialty milks, such as calcium- • Orange, yellow, or white
check or included in your fortified milk, milk with added DHA, • Mild, medium, sharp, or longhorn
WIC Food Balance: ultra heat treated (UHT) shelf-stable
• Half gallons milk, A2 milk, ultra-filtered milk, or Colby Cheese
• Whole milk protein-fortified milk Jack Cheese
Lactose free milk
• Cultured milks, such as acidophilus
•
Marbled or Blends of
milk, buttermilk, or kefir milk
• Evaporated milk in 12 oz cans authorized cheeses, such as
• Flavored milk, such as chocolate Colby-Jack or Cheddarella
• Powdered dry milk in 9.6 oz
Cheese
or 25.6 oz containers
• Goat’s or soy milk
Mozzarella Cheese
• 2% Reduced fat milk
• Non-dairy substitutes
• Pint size or glass bottles
Cannot Buy
Raw (unpasteurized) milk
Milk
•
• Any other variety, size, or texture of cheese
• Sweetened condensed or filled milk
• Diced, grated, sliced, crumbled, or shredded cheese
• Organic milk
Eggs
• Cheese purchased from or sliced at the deli
• Cheese with added ingredients, such as hot peppers or spices
Helpful Hint • Organic cheese
To get the most milk, buy
fluid cow’s milk.
Eggs
Can Buy | Any brand dozen-size carton.
Chicken Eggs
• White
• Large
Cannot Buy
• Any other size, type, or color of eggs
• Powdered or liquid eggs
• Specialty eggs, such as cage-free, organic, vitamin-enriched,
pastured, low cholesterol, or DHA-enriched
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Yogurt
Can Buy | Brands, flavors (plain, vanilla, or Market Pantry
strawberry), and fat levels of cow’s milk Sunnyside Farms
• Plain (Nonfat)
yogurt listed below and on the next page in • Original Plain (Lowfat)
quart (32 oz) container.
• Original Strawberry (Lowfat)
*Brand offers whole fat options • Original Vanilla (Lowfat)
Mountain High*
• Plain (Fat Free, Lowfat, Whole)
• Strawberry (Whole)
Essential Everyday* • Vanilla (Fat Free, Lowfat, Whole) Western Family
Alta Dena* • Blended Plain (Fat Free, • Plain (Low-Fat)
• Plain (Nonfat, Lowfat, Whole) Lowfat, Whole)
• Strawberry (Lowfat) • Blended Strawberry (Lowfat)
• Vanilla (Lowfat) • Blended Vanilla (Lowfat)
Springfield WinCo Foods*
• Plain (Lowfat) • Plain (Nonfat, Whole)
• Strawberry (Lowfat) • Strawberry (Lowfat)
Great Value • Vanilla (Lowfat)
Berkeley Farms
Yogurt
Yogurt
• Plain (Nonfat)
• Plain (Nonfat, Lowfat)
• Strawberry (Lowfat)
• Strawberry (Lowfat)
• Vanilla (Lowfat) Stater Bros.
• Vanilla (Lowfat)
• Plain (Fat Free)
• Blended Strawberry (Lowfat)
Yoplait
• Blended Vanilla (Lowfat)
• Plain (Nonfat)
• Original Strawberry (Low Fat)
Crystal Kroger
• Original Vanilla (Low Fat)
• Plain (Low Fat) • Blended Plain (Lowfat)
• Plain (Nonfat)
Cannot Buy
• Any other brand, size, or flavor • Drinkable yogurts
of yogurt • Fat level not printed on check or
Dannon* • Any other type of yogurt, such as included in your WIC Food Balance
• Plain (Nonfat, Lowfat, Whole) LALA Greek yogurt, lactose free yogurt, • Yogurt with artificial,
• Strawberry (Whole) • Plain (Low Fat) soy yogurt, or goat’s milk yogurt reduced-calorie, or no-calorie
• Vanilla (Lowfat, Whole) • Vanilla (Low Fat) • Yogurt with mix-in ingredients, sweeteners
such as granola, candy pieces, • Organic yogurt
honey, or nuts
Early On Lucerne* Helpful Hint
• Plain (Fat Free) • Plain (Fat Free, Whole) You must buy yogurt fat level printed on check/
• Strawberry (Lowfat) • Strawberry (Lowfat) included in your WIC Food Balance.
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Soy Tofu
Can Buy | Brands, types, and sizes listed Can Buy | Brands and textures of plain tofu
below, organic and twin-packs allowed. listed below in 16 oz package.
Azumaya
• Silken
8th Continent Soymilk • Firm Nasoya
Original Silk Soymilk Original
• Extra Firm • Organic Silken
• Refrigerated • Refrigerated
• Half gallon • Half gallon and Quart
House Foods
• Premium Medium Firm
O Organics
Great Value Soymilk WESTSOY Organic Plus • Premium Firm
• Organic Sprouted
Original Soymilk Plain • Premium Extra Firm
Super Firm
• Refrigerated • Shelf-Stable
Tofu
Soy
• Half gallon • Quart
Cannot Buy
• Any other brand, size, or texture of tofu
Cannot Buy • Tofu with added fats, sugars, sweeteners (artificial, reduced-calorie,
or no-calorie), oils, sodium, flavoring, or seasoning
• Any other brand, type, size,
Pacific Ultra Soy Original • Cubed, dried, baked, or fried tofu
or flavor of soy
• Shelf-Stable • Tofu in bulk (not pre-packaged)
• Light, lowfat, fat free, or
• Quart nonfat soy
• Unsweetened soy
Helpful Hint
If you are interested in
buying soy and/or tofu, talk
with WIC staff.
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Bottled Juice and Whole Grains
Concentrate Juice Can Buy | Whole Wheat Bread — Any brand
in 16 oz package.
Can Buy | Any brand pasteurized juice in authorized flavors,
sizes, and forms listed below. Must have “100% Juice”
and “80% Vitamin C” (or more) on the front label.
Added Calcium and/or Vitamin D are allowed. • Loaves, buns, or rolls that have
“100% Whole Wheat” on the front label
• Store bakery bread is allowed,
if labeled appropriately
• 64 oz bottled (ready-to-drink)
containers or
• 11.5 oz, 12 oz, or 16 oz concentrate
(frozen or non-frozen) containers Can Buy | Any brand in 16 oz package, plain.
Apple Tomato Brown Rice Oatmeal or Oats
Bottled Juice and Concentrate Juice
Cranberry • Regular, low sodium, or spicy • Short, medium, or long grain • Old fashioned
Grape Vegetable • Regular, quick, or instant • Rolled, cut, or steel cut
• Red, Purple, or White • Regular, low sodium, or spicy • Basmati Brown • Regular, quick, or instant
Juice Blends Jasmine Brown • Crystal Wedding
Whole Grains
•
Grapefruit
• Ruby Red, Pink, or White* • Juice that is named as two or more Whole Grain Barley Bulgur
authorized flavors on the front • Organic is allowed • Organic is allowed
Orange* label, such as Cranberry-Grape,
Pineapple Apple-Grape, or Cran-Apple
Prune Cannot Buy
Refer to the Cannot Buy section on page 22 for a
full listing of cannot buys for Whole Grains.
* Orange juice and white grapefruit juice are not required to have
“80% Vitamin C” on the front label.
Cannot Buy
• Any other flavor, type, or size • Cider Can Buy | Corn Tortillas (Soft, yellow
or white) and Whole Wheat Tortillas —
of juice • Juice with added ingredients or Brands and products in 16 oz package
• Juice not labeled as listed above supplements, such as caffeine, listed below and on the next two pages.
• Refrigerated juice carnitine, chromium, DHA,
• Diet, light, or lite juice echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng,
guarana, St. John’s wort, taurine,
• Organic juice
or wheatgrass
BRAND
Helpful Hint Chavez Supermarket Chi-Chi’s
To get the most juice: • Corn Tortillas • White Corn Taco Style Tortillas
• Whole Wheat Tortillas
• For children, choose 64 oz • For women, choose
Fajita Style
bottles or 16 oz frozen or 11.5 oz or 12 oz frozen or
non-frozen containers. non-frozen containers.
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Don Pancho La Burrita Ortega
Guerrero
• White Corn Tortillas • Corn Tortillas • Whole Wheat Tortillas
• Tortillas de Maiz Blanco (Corn)
Soft Taco Style
•
• Tortillas de Harina Integral
Whole Wheat Tortillas
(Whole Wheat)
Market Pantry Ozuna
®
• 100% Whole Wheat Tortillas • Corn Tortillas
Herdez
• Whole Wheat Tortillas
El Comal • Whole Wheat Tortillas Flour/
• Corn Tortillas Trigo Integral Fajita Style
• 100% Whole Wheat
Flour Tortillas
Mi-Rancho Tortillas
Romero’s
• Soft White Corn Tortillas
• Whole Grain Corn Tortillas
IGA • Whole Wheat Flour Tortillas
Whole Grains
Whole Grains
El Super • 100% Whole Wheat Grain
• White Corn Tortillas
• Tortillas De Maiz (Corn) Flour Tortillas Regular/
• Whole Wheat Tortillas Taco Style Soft Taco Size
Mission
Essential Everyday • Yellow Corn Tortillas Extra Thin
• White Corn Tortillas 100% Whole Wheat Flour
Kroger •
Signature Select
5.5” Soft Taco Style Tortillas Fajita
• Yellow Corn Tortillas • Whole Wheat Flour Tortillas
• 100% Whole Wheat • 100% Whole Wheat Flour
• 100% Whole Wheat Tortillas Soft Taco Style
Flour Tortillas Tortillas Soft Taco
Soft Taco Size
Frestillas Tortilleria Santacruz
• 100% Whole Wheat Tortillas Northgate Market • Corn Tortillas
La Banderita • White Corn Tortillas de Maiz • 100% Whole Wheat
• Corn Tortillas • Yellow Corn Tortillas de Maiz Flour Tortillas
• Grande Corn Tortillas
• Yellow Corn Tortillas
Great Value • 100% Whole Wheat Flour Tortillas Fajita Cannot Buy
• Whole Wheat Flour • 100% Whole Wheat Flour Tortillas Refer to the Cannot Buy section on page 22 for a full listing
Tortillas Soft Taco of cannot buys for Whole Grains.
18 19Whole Grains
Can Buy | Whole Wheat Pasta — Brands and products in 16 oz Kroger Signature Select
package, as listed below and on the next two pages. • 100% Whole Grain Penne Rigate • Whole Wheat Elbow Macaroni
• 100% Whole Grain Rotini • Whole Wheat Linguine
• 100% Whole Grain Spaghetti • Whole Wheat Penne Rigate
• 100% Whole Grain Thin Spaghetti • Whole Wheat Rotini
• Whole Wheat Spaghetti
• Whole Wheat Thin Spaghetti
O Organics
• Organic Whole Wheat Elbow
Macaroni
• Organic Whole Wheat Linguine
Simple Truth Organic
• Organic Whole Wheat Penne Rigate
Allegra Full Circle • Organic Whole Wheat
• Organic 100% Whole Wheat Rotini Penne Rigate
• Whole Wheat Spaghetti • Organic Whole Wheat Angel Hair Page 3
• Organic 100% Whole Wheat Organic Whole Wheat Rotini
• Organic Whole Wheat Spaghetti •
Spaghetti
• Organic Whole Wheat
Organic Whole Wheat Thin Spaghetti
Whole Grains
Whole Grains
•
Spaghetti
Barilla
• Whole Grain Angel Hair Great Value
• Whole Grain Elbows • Whole Wheat Elbows Racconto
• Whole Grain Linguine • Whole Wheat Linguine • Whole Wheat Capellini Simply Balanced
• Whole Grain Medium Shells • Whole Wheat Penne • Whole Wheat Elbows • Organic Whole Wheat Farfalle
• Whole Grain Penne • Whole Wheat Rotini • Whole Wheat Farfalle • Organic Whole Wheat
• Whole Grain Rotini Whole Wheat Linguine Penne Rigate
• Whole Wheat Spaghetti •
• Whole Grain Spaghetti Whole Wheat Penne Rigate • Organic Whole Wheat Spaghetti
• Whole Wheat Thin Spaghetti •
• Whole Grain Thin Spaghetti • Whole Wheat Rigatoni
• Whole Wheat Rotini
• Whole Wheat Spaghetti
Springfield
Essential Everyday Hodgson Mill
• Whole Wheat Penne Rigate
• Whole Wheat Elbow Macaroni • Whole Wheat Angel Hair
• Whole Wheat Rotini
Ronzoni Healthy Harvest
• Whole Wheat Penne Rigate • Whole Wheat Elbows
• 100% Whole Grain Linguine
• Whole Wheat Rotini • Whole Wheat Spaghetti
• 100% Whole Grain Penne Rigate
• Whole Wheat Spaghetti • Whole Wheat Spirals
• 100% Whole Grain Rotini
• Whole Wheat Thin Spaghetti • Whole Wheat Thin Spaghetti
• 100% Whole Grain Spaghetti
• 100% Whole Grain Thin Spaghetti
20 21Dry Beans, Peas,
Western Family WinCo Foods or Lentils
• 100% Whole Wheat Penne Rigate • Whole Wheat Penne
• 100% Whole Wheat Spaghetti • Whole Wheat Rotini Can Buy | Any brand or variety in
16 oz package, organic allowed.
• Whole Wheat Spaghetti
Cannot Buy
Varieties including, but not limited to:
• Any other type, brand, or size • Brown rice mixed with any
of corn tortillas, whole wheat other type of rice • Black • Great • Lima • Pinto
tortillas, or whole wheat pasta • Black-eyed Peas Northern • Mixed • Red
• Individual or flavored
• Any other type, size, or variety oatmeal packets • Garbanzo (Chickpeas) • Kidney • Navy • Split Peas
Dry Beans, Peas, or Lentils
of whole wheat bread, brown • Pearled barley • Lentils • Pink
rice, whole grain barley, • Organic bread, tortillas,
oatmeal, oats, or bulgur Cannot Buy
oatmeal, or brown rice
• Whole grains with added • Canned or frozen beans, peas, • Dry beans, peas, or lentils with
• Whole grains in bulk
ingredients, such as fruits, or lentils artificial, reduced-calorie, or
(not pre-packaged)
Whole Grains
nuts, or spices • Dry beans, peas, or lentils no-calorie sweeteners
• Homemade whole grains
• Refrigerated or frozen bread, with added sugars, fats, oils, • Dry beans with flavors or
• Whole grains with artificial,
dough, mixes, tortillas, rice, vegetables, fruits, or meat spices or bean soup mixes with
reduced-calorie, or
oats, or pasta • Soy nuts flavoring packets or spices
no-calorie sweeteners
• Ready-to-serve rice • Dry beans, peas, or lentils in
bulk (not pre-packaged)
Peanut Butter Canned
Canned Mature Beans
Peanut Butter
Can Buy | Any brand in 16 oz – 18 oz container.
Mature Beans
Plain, regular, low sodium, or low sugar.
Can Buy | Any brand, type, or variety in
15 oz – 16 oz can. Plain, regular or low sodium.
• Any texture, such as creamy, • Old fashioned or natural
smooth, crunchy, chunky, super is allowed
crunchy, or super chunky Varieties including, but not Cannot Buy
limited to:
• Dry or frozen beans, peas,
Cannot Buy • Black • Lima or lentils
• Any other size, type, or flavor • Peanut butter with added • Black-eyed Peas • Mixed • Canned immature peas, such as green
of peanut butter supplements, such as omega-3 • Garbanzo • Navy peas, green beans, or wax beans
• Honey nut roasted peanut fatty acids or flax seed (Chickpeas) • Pink • Canned lentils or beans with added
butter • Peanut butter with artificial, • Great Northern • Pinto sugars, fats, oils, vegetables, fruits,
• “Grind your own” peanut butter reduced-calorie, or no-calorie • Kidney or meat
• Red
Peanut butter spread sweeteners • Canned lentils or beans with artificial,
• • Lentils
• Lowfat or reduced fat
• Organic peanut butter reduced-calorie, or no-calorie
peanut butter sweeteners
• Peanut butter with added Helpful Hint Helpful Hint • Canned baked or refried beans
ingredients, such as jams, To get the most To get the most • Flavored lentils or beans, such as
jellies, chocolate, peanut butter, buy canned beans, Cajun, barbecue, or ranch style beans
marshmallows, or honey 18 oz containers. buy 16 oz cans. • Canned organic lentils or beans
22 23Breakfast Cereal OTHER CEREALS — Less than 51% whole grain
Kellogg’s
Can Buy | Brands and products in 12 oz – 36 oz box or
bag of cereal listed below and on the next page.
= 50% or more folic acid = 5 or more grams
per serving of fiber per serving Corn
Flakes Special K — Original
WHOLE GRAIN CEREALS — 51% or more whole grain
Post/Malt-O-Meal
General Mills
Honey Bunches of Malt-O-Meal
Cheerios Multi Grain Honey Kix Total Whole
Oats — Honey Roasted Hot Cereal — Original
Cheerios Kix Grain
Kellogg’s Quaker Crisp(y) Rice:
Breakfast Cereal
Breakfast Cereal
• Best Yet • Kroger • Signature Select
• First Street • Malt-O-Meal • Springfield
• Food Club • Market Pantry • Stater Bros.
• Great Value • Mill Select Early On* • Sunny Select
• Hospitality • Parade • Valu Time
Frosted Frosted Life — Original Oatmeal Oatmeal
Mini Wheats Squares — Squares —
• HyTop • Raley’s • Western Family
Mini Wheats
Original Little Bites Brown Sugar Cinnamon • Hy-Vee • Ralston Foods • WinCo Foods
• IGA • Red & White
Post B&G Foods • Kiggins • Shurfine
*Cereal is 51% or more whole grain
Cannot Buy
Cream of Wheat • Any other brand, type, size, or • Hot breakfast cereal with
Grape-Nuts Bran Flakes Whole Grain flavor of breakfast cereal added fruits, nuts, sugars,
• Grits or sweeteners (artificial,
Instant Oatmeal or Instant Oats | Brands listed below reduced-calorie, or no-calorie)
in 11.8 oz – 12 oz containers of individual serving packets.
Old fashioned, classic, regular, or original flavor.
Helpful Hint
• Best Yet • Hy-Vee • Red & White • Springfield To buy the full 36 oz of cereal:
• Early On • IGA • Shurfine • Stater Bros.
• First Street • Kroger • Signature • Sunny Select
• Food Club • Raley’s Select • Western Family
• Great Value • Ralston Foods • Special Value • WinCo Foods
24 25Canned Fish Fruits and Vegetables
Can Buy | Any brand, regular or low sodium. Can Buy | Fresh Fruits and Vegetables — Any brand, type, or
combination, organic allowed.
Chunk Light Tuna:
• Any variety of whole or cut fruits
• 5 oz can
and vegetables
• Packed in water • Bagged fruits and vegetables
• Plain • Bagged or packaged salad mixtures
Mackerel: • Garlic, onion, ginger, jalapeños,
peppers, and chilies are allowed
• 15 oz can
• Packed in water or
tomato sauce Cannot Buy
Pink Salmon:
• Any food or product from the • Dried vegetables
Sardines:
salad bar or deli, party trays, • Herbs and spices, such as
• 5 oz, 6 oz, or 14.75 oz can • 15 oz can fruit baskets, or decorative parsley, basil, cilantro, or mint
• Packed in water • Packed in water, mustard, or vegetables and fruits, such as • Fruits and vegetables with
• Plain tomato sauce chilies or garlic on a string or added fats, oils, or sugars
Fruits and Vegetables
painted pumpkins
• Fruits and vegetables with
Cannot Buy • Nuts or fruit-nut mixtures
Canned Fish
artificial, reduced-calorie, or
• Edible blossoms, such as squash no-calorie sweeteners
• Any other flavor, variety, size, or • Canned fish packed in oil
blossoms
type of fish • Canned mackerel or sardines
• Bagged salad or vegetable or
• Solid white, albacore tuna, or packed in any other sauce, such
fruit kits with added ingredients,
prime fillet fish as chili or hot sauce
such as dressing, croutons,
• Specialty salmon, such as • Tuna or salmon kits cheese, dips, or sauces
smoked, wild sockeye, blue • Fish packed in pouches or plastic
back salmon, or red salmon containers
• Organic canned fish or canned • Canned king mackerel
fish in organic sauce Can Buy | Dried Fruits — Any brand, size,
and type of container, organic allowed.
Helpful Hint
• Any variety of dried fruits without added fats, sugars, or oils, such as
To buy the full 30 oz of fish: raisins, prunes, dried plums, figs, dates, or apricots
• Freeze-dried is allowed
• Pitted or with pits are allowed
Cannot Buy
• Dried fruits with added fats, oils, • Dried fruits with added artificial
or sugars or natural flavors, including
• Dried fruits with artificial, reduced- essences
calorie, or no-calorie sweeteners • Dried or freeze-dried vegetables
• Dried fruits in bulk • Fruit snacks or fruit bites
(not pre-packaged) • Trail mix
26 27Fruits and Vegetables Fruits and Vegetables
Can Buy | Canned Fruits — Any brand, size, Can Buy | Frozen Fruits — Any brand, size, and type of
and type of container, organic allowed. container, organic allowed.
• Any variety of canned fruits, packed in water • Any variety of frozen fruits
or juice without added sugars without added sugars
• Natural or unsweetened applesauce is allowed • Combinations of frozen fruits and
frozen vegetables are allowed
• Combinations of canned fruits and canned
vegetables are allowed
Cannot Buy
Cannot Buy • Frozen fruits with added ingredients, oils, salt, or sugars
• Canned fruits packed in syrup, • Canned fruits with artificial, • Frozen fruits with artificial, reduced-calorie, or no-calorie sweeteners
such as heavy, light, or reduced-calorie, or no-calorie • Frozen fruits that do not list a fruit as the first ingredient
extra light sweeteners
• Fruit cocktail, mixed fruit with • Canned fruits that do not list
cherries, cranberry sauce, or a fruit as the first ingredient
pie filling • Home-canned or Can Buy | Frozen Vegetables —
Fruits and Vegetables
Fruits and Vegetables
• Canned fruits with added home-preserved fruits Any brand, size, and type of
sugars, salt, fats, or oils container, organic allowed.
Regular or low sodium.
Can Buy | Canned Vegetables — Any brand, • Any variety of frozen vegetables • Frozen beans of any kind are
size, and type of container, organic allowed. • Sweet potatoes or yams without allowed, such as
Regular or low sodium. added sugars or syrup are green beans, wax beans,
allowed black-eyed peas, black beans,
or pinto beans
• Any variety of canned vegetables • Combinations of frozen
vegetables and frozen fruits
• Sweet potatoes or yams without added sugars or syrup are allowed
are allowed
• Combinations of canned vegetables and canned fruits
are allowed
Cannot Buy
• Tomatoes or tomato products are allowed, such as whole, strained,
crushed, diced, paste, or purees
• Breaded or flavored frozen
vegetables
• French fries, tater tots, hash
Cannot Buy
browns, or mashed potatoes
• Canned vegetables with • Home-canned or home-preserved • Frozen vegetables that do not list
added fats or oils vegetables a vegetable as the first ingredient
• Canned vegetable mixtures • Soups, ketchup, relishes, olives, • Frozen vegetables with sauce,
with mature beans salsa, stewed tomatoes, or tomato such as cheese, butter, or
• Pickled, creamed, or sauced sauces (tomato, pizza, spaghetti) teriyaki sauce
canned vegetables • Canned mature beans, such as • Frozen vegetables with added
• Canned tomato products black-eyed peas, kidney beans, or sugars, sweeteners (artificial,
with added sugars, fats, oils, pinto beans reduced-calorie, or no-calorie),
or sweeteners (artificial, • Canned vegetables that do not list oils, fats, pasta, rice, or any
reduced-calorie, or no-calorie) a vegetable as the first ingredient other ingredient
28 29Infant Fruits and
Vegetables
Can Buy | Any product made by the
brands listed below and on the next page
in 4 oz container, organic allowed.
Cannot Buy
• Plain fruits, plain vegetables, or combinations of two or more • Any other size or brand of infant • Infant fruits and vegetables
plain fruits and vegetables
fruits and vegetables mixed with cereal, meat, pasta,
• Multi-packs are allowed or rice
• Infant fruits and vegetables in
pouches • Infant fruits and vegetables
• Infant desserts, puddings, or with added sugars, salt, spices,
smoothies starch, fiber, or DHA
• Infant juice • Infant fruits and vegetables
with artificial, reduced-calorie,
• Infant dinners
or no-calorie sweeteners
Graduates or toddler infant food
Infant Fruits and Vegetables
Infant Fruits and Vegetables
•
• Infant fruits and vegetables that
• Dried or powdered infant fruits
do not list a fruit or vegetable
and vegetables
as the first ingredient
Nutrition Tip
Most babies are ready for baby food
around 6 months old.
®
Helpful Hint
Single containers and multi-packs can be mixed and matched.
A multi-pack has 2 or more containers.
30 31Infant Cereal Infant Meats
Can Buy | Brands and types listed below Can Buy | Any product made by the brands listed
in 8 oz or 16 oz container. below in 2.5 oz container, organic allowed.
• Added broth or gravy is allowed • Multi-packs are allowed
Beech-Nut
• Oatmeal and Organic Oatmeal Gerber
• Multigrain and Organic • Oatmeal and Organic Oatmeal
Multigrain • Barley
• Rice Single Grain • Whole Wheat
• MultiGrain
• Rice and Organic Rice
Early On
Infant Cereal
Infant Meats
• Oatmeal
Mom’s Choice
• Rice
Earth’s Best Organic
• Whole Grain Oatmeal
Yummy Naturals
• Whole Grain Multi-Grain
• Multigrain
• Whole Grain Rice
Cannot Buy
• Any other brand, type, or size
of infant cereal
• Infant cereal with added
ingredients, such as DHA, Cannot Buy
probiotics, formula, milk, • Any other size or brand of • Infant meats with added sugars,
fruits, vegetables, sugars, infant meats salt, spices, fiber, or DHA
or sweeteners (artificial, • Infant dinners or infant meats • Infant meats with artificial,
reduced-calorie, or no-calorie)
mixed with veggies, fruits, reduced-calorie, or no-calorie
cereal, pasta, or rice sweeteners
• Graduates or toddler infant food • Infant meats in pouches
32 33Infant Formula Notes
Can Buy | Must buy the brand, type, size, and number of cans
printed on the check or included in your WIC Food Balance.
Cannot Buy
• Any other brand, type, or size of • Low iron or no iron formula
infant formula not printed on check
or included in your WIC Food Balance
Infant Formula
Fresh Bananas
Fresh Bananas
Can Buy | Fresh Yellow Bananas.
Families Grow Healthy
• 4 bananas as printed on the Cannot Buy with WIC
check or included in your • Any other type of banana, such as
WIC Food Balance
plantains, red, mini, or fingerling
• Organic is allowed
34 35This document is intended for educational purposes only and does not create
any rights, obligations, affirmative duties, and does not replace or supersede the
WIC Bulletin Regulations. A complete copy of the regulations summarized in this
document can be found at www.wicworks.ca.gov.
California Department of Public Health, California WIC Program
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
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