Community Health Administration Nutrition and Physical Fitness Bureau Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
Services
Sample Food Packages
The DC WIC Program provides vouchers that WIC customers use to purchase the items in the food packages listed below. While these food benefits are free to the customer, the “approximate cost benefit” indicates how much money a family could save by participating in the WIC Program.
Infants
0-6 months Standard formulas:
Similac Advance
Similac Sensitive
Similac Isomil Advance
6-12 months Juice and cereal are introduced to the infant at 6 months.
Approximate Cost Benefit - $144.00
Fully Breast-Feeding Women
28 quarts milk 1 lb. cheese 2½ dozen eggs 7 46-oz. cans juice 36 oz. cereal
1 lb. dried beans/peas or 18 oz. peanut butter 2 lbs. carrots 4 6-1/8 oz. cans water-packed tuna