New Hampshire WIC
Approved
Food List
Effective July, 2022
HEALTHY FOOD
HEALTHY KID
HAPPY MOM
Infant Food
CEREAL
8 oz. container only
- Beech-Nut – Rice, Multigrain, Oatmeal
- Beach-Nut Organics – Multigrain, Oatmeal
- Earth’s Best Organic – Rice, Multigrain, Oatmeal
- Gerber – Whole Wheat, Rice, Oatmeal, Multigrain
- Gerber Organic – Rice, Oatmeal, Oatmeal/Quinoa/Millet cereals
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Fruits, vegetables, or fruit & vegetable combinations. (Stage 2, 4 oz. jars only):
- Beech-Nut
- Beech-Nut Organics
- Earth’s Best Organic
- Full Circle Organic
- Gerber (4 oz. – 2 packs only): 2nd foods *2 packs count as 2 containers off your benefit balance
- Gerber Organic
- Happy Baby Organic
- Nature’s Promise Organic
- Once Upon A Farm Organic
- O Organics
- Parent’s Choice
- PIC Select
- Plum Organics
INFANT MEATS
For fully breastfed babies only.
2.5 oz. jar only
- Beech-Nut – Stage 1 infant meats
- Earth’s Best Organic – Chicken and Turkey Jars
- Gerber – 2nd foods infant meats
INFANT FORMULA
Brand, type and size listed on benefit.
BREAST MILK
Complete nutrition for your baby.
No added ingredients such as DHA, meat, poultry, cereal, noodles, rice, yogurt, or granola.
No desserts, cobblers, dinners, or casseroles.
No toddler foods.
Fruits and Vegetables
Organic products are allowed when using the fruit & vegetable benefit.
FRESH
ANY BRAND, variety, size, or mixture of fresh fruits and vegetables with no added sugar, syrup, artificial sweeteners, fat, or oil.
- Whole or cut up
- Loose or packed in bags or plastic containers
FROZEN
ANY BRAND, variety, size, or mixture of frozen fruits and vegetables with no added sugar, syrup, artificial sweeteners, fat, oil, meat, pasta, rice, or sauce. Frozen vegetables may be with or without salt.
- Any frozen bans or peas such as lima beans and blackeye peas are allowed.
CANNED
(also includes boxes, plastic or glass containers)
ANY BRAND, variety, size, or mixture of canned fruits and vegetables with no added sugar, syrup, artificial sweeteners, fat, oil, or meat.
- Canned fruit must be packed in water or fruit juice.
- Canned vegetables may be with or without salt and may have added seasonings or spices.
- Applesauce with no sugar added and applesauce/fruit blends with no sugar added.
- Tomato sauce, tomato paste, whole tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes or stewed tomatoes.
- Canned beans and peas such as green peas, green beans, wax beans, snap beans, and snap peas are allowed.
NOT ALLOWED
- No items from the salad bar, party trays, or fruit baskets.
- No decorative fruits or vegetables, painted pumpkins, or gourds.
- No fresh or dried herbs and spices.
- No garlic on a string.
- No edible blossoms, flowers, or plants.
- No dried or dehydrated fruits or vegetables.
- No jarred baby and toddler fruits & vegetables.
- No pouches of fruit purees or fruit pulps.
- No frozen fruit bars.
- No beverages such as fruit juice, tomato juice, and vegetable juice.
- No fruit-nut mixtures.
- No ketchup, relishes, pickles, olives, sauerkraut, mustard, pickled items or condiments.
- No jelly, jams, fruit preserves, or apple butter.
- No salsa, pizza sauce, or pasta sauce.
Milk, Soymilk, Cheese, Tofu, Yogurt
Must purchase type and size listed in your food benefit list.
MILK
1% Low Fat or Fat Free Milk
The following types of milk may only be pruchased when listed in your food benefit list:
- Whole Milk
- Lactose Free Milk
- Evaporated milk, 12 oz. can only
- UHT milk, 32 oz. quart only
- Powdered milk, 32 oz. box only
No goat’s milk, raw milk, nut milk or rice milk.
No organic, flavored milk, buttermilk or glass bottles.
SOY BEVERAGE
Quart, shelf stable
- Pacific Natural Foods – Ultra Soy Original
- Silk – Original
Half-gallon carton only, refrigerated
- 8th Continent Soymilk – Original
- Great Value – Original
- Silk – Soymilk Original
TOFU
16 oz. package only
- Azumaya – Extra Firm, Firm, Silken
- Franklin Farms – Extra Firm, Firm, Medium Firm, Soft
- Heiwa – Organic Tofu
- House Foods – Extra Firm, Firm, Medium Firm
- Nasoya – Sprouted Super Firm, Silken
- Soy Boy – Firm
CHEESE
8 oz. and 16 oz. package only
ANY BRAND – Blends of listed cheese are allowed.
Prepackaged, dairy case only. Regular or reduced fat.
Allowed Types:
American
Cheddar
Colby-Jack
Monterey-Jack
Mozzarella
Swiss
Block
Round
Shredded
Sliced
String cheese – must be 100% Mozzarella
No deli, imported or organic.
No cheese product or cheese food.
No individually wrapped slices or singles.
YOGURT
32 oz. container/pacakage only*
Regular or Greek Style – Whole milk, low fat or fat free/nonfat as specified in your food benefit list.
Bowl & Basket
Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry
Brown Cow
Plain, Vanilla, Cream Top Plain,
Cream Top Vanilla, Cream Top Maple
Cabot
Plain, Vanilla, Vanilla Bean, Strawberry
Chobani (No Simply 100)
Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry, Peach
Dannon Naturals and Oikos
(No Light & Fit) (No Triple Zero)
Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry, Strawberry Banana
Food Club (No Light)
Plain, Vanilla
Good and Gather
Plain, Vanilla
Great Value (No Light)
Plain, Strawberry, Peach, Strawberry Banana
Green Mountain Creamery
0% Plain, 5% Plain, 0% Vanilla, 0% Maple
Hannaford
Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry
Lucerne
Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry
Market Basket
Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry, Peach
Market Pantry (No Light)
Plain, Vanilla
Mountain High
Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry
O Organics
Plain, Vanilla
Open Nature
Plain, Vanilla
PICs
Plain, Vanilla
Price Rite
Plain, Vanilla
Shurfine
Plain, Vanilla
Stonyfield
Plain, French Vanilla, Vanilla, Strawberry, Banilla, Maple
2 oz. tubes; 8 packs = (1 LB/16 oz.) and 16 packs = (2 LB/32 oz.)
Taste of Inspiration
Plain, Vanilla, Strawberry
Wallaby
Plain, Vanilla, Vanilla Bean
Yoplait
Vanilla, Strawberry, Peach, Strawberry Banana, Blueberry
2 oz. tubes; 8 packs = (1 LB/16 oz.) and
16 packs = (2 LB/32 oz.)
Breads and Buns, Tortillas, Brown Rice, Oatmeal and Whole Wheat Pasta
100% WHOLE WHEAT BREAD
16 ounce (1 LB) loaf or package only
- Arnold Stone Ground 100% Whole Wheat
- Arnold Whole Wheat Hamburger Buns 16 oz.
- Best Yet 100% Whole Wheat
- Bimbo 100% Whole Wheat
- Country Kitchen 100% Whole Wheat
- Gourmet 100% Whole Wheat
- Hannaford 100% Whole Wheat
- IGA 100% Whole Wheat
- Market Basket 100% Whole Wheat
- Nature’s Own 100% Whole Wheat with Honey
- Pepperidge Farm Light Style 100% Whole Wheat, Light Style Wheat, Stone Ground 100% Whole Wheat, Very Thin 100% Whole Wheat, Whole Grain Rye (seeded or not seeded)
- PICs 100% Whole Wheat
- Rubschlager Westphalian Style Pumpernickel Bread, Danish Style Pumpernickel, European Style Whole Grain, 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Cocktail Whole Grain Bread, Cocktail Rye Bread, Cocktail Pumpernickel Bread, 100% Rye Rye-Ola Flax Bread, 100% Rye Rye-Ola Pumpernickel Bread, 100% Rye Rye-Ola Black Rye Bread, 100% Rye-Rye-Ola Sunflower Bread
- Sara Lee 100% Whole Wheat
- Shop Rite 100% Whole Wheat
- Signature Select 100% Whole Wheat
- Signature Select No Salt Added Whole Wheat
- Wonder 100% Whole Wheat
TORTILLAS
Wheat
- Chi-Chi’s
- Food Club
- Great Value
- Hannaford
- Herdez
- IGA
- La Banderita
- Market Basket
- Market Pantry
- Mi Casa
- Mission
- Ortega
- Pepito
- Shoprite Trading Co.
- Shurfine
- Siempre Autentico
- Signature Select
- Tropical
Soft Corn
- Food Club
- Hannaford
- Herdez
- IGA
- La Banderita
- Market Basket
- Mayan Farms
- Mission
- Pepito
- Shurfine
BROWN RICE
ANY BRAND
14 to 16 oz. package
Instant, or Boil-in-Bag Brown Rice
16 oz. package only
Regular Brown Rice
No White rice or wild rice.
No added ingredients such as seasonings.
OATMEAL
(Whole Grain Option)
16 oz. package only
- McCann’s Irish Oatmeal
- Mom’s Best Natural Quick Oats
- Mom’s Best Old Fashioned Oats
- Surefine 100% Natural Oatmeal
- Signature Select
Whole Wheat Pasta
(100% Whole Wheat/Whole Grain Only)
16 oz. package only
- Barilla
- Bowl & Basket
- Great Value
- Hodgson Mill
- Ronzoni Healthy Harvest
- Shufine
- Signature Select
100% Juices
All juice must be labeled as 100% juice.
Calcium fortified is allowed.
Bottled (64 oz. plastic containers only)
Fruit
Apple
Apple & Eve
Best Yet
Delish
Food Club
Great Value
Hannaford
Harvest Classics
Hy-Top
IGA
Langers
Market Basket
Market Pantry
Mott’s
Ocean Spray
Old Orchard
PICS
Price Rite
Seneca
Shurfine
Signature Select
Grape
Best Yet
Food Club
Great Value
Hannaford
Harvest Classics
Hy-Top
IGA
Langers
Market Basket
Market Pantry
Ocean Spray
Old Orchard
PICS
Price Rite
Shurfine
Signature Select
Welch’s
Orange
Great Value
White Grape
Apple & Eve
Best Yet
Food Club
Great Value
Hannaford
Harvest Classics
Hy-Top
IGA
Langers
Market Basket
Market Pantry
Old Orchard
PICS
Shurfine
Signature Select
Welch’s
Juicy Juice all flavors, including blends
Vegetable
(Regular or Low Sodium)
Tomato
Campbell’s
Food Club
Great Value
Hannaford
Market Pantry
PICs
Shurfine
Signature Select
Vegetable
Great Value
Hannaford
Market Pantry
PICs
Shurfine
Signature Select
V8
No juice drinks, beverages, cocktails, or “light” juice.
No toddler or infant juice. No organic juice.
Refrigerated Plastic Jugs or Cartons (64 oz. only)
ANY BRAND
100% Pasteurized Orange Juice only
Frozen Concentrate (11.5 to 12 oz. cans only)
Apple
Best Yet
Food Club
Great Value
Hannaford
Hy-Top
IGA
Langers
Market Basket
Market Pantry
Old Orchard
PICS
Seneca
Shurfine
Signature Select
Cranberry
Langers
Old Orchard
Grape
Best Yet
Food Club
Great Value
Hannaford
Langers
Market Basket
Market Pantry
Old Orchard
PICs
Grapefruit: Any Brand
Orange: Any Brand
Pineapple: Any Brand
White Grape:
Old Orchard
PICs
No juice drinks, beverages, cocktails, or “light” juice.
No toddler or infant juice.
No organic juice.
Cereal
Choose a combination that best meets our total ounces in your benefit balance.
12 oz. or larger only
Ways to buy 36 oz of cereal
General Mills
Cheerios*
MultiGrain Cheerios*
Chex
Blueberry*
Cinnamon*
Corn
Rice
Wheat*
Fiber One Honey Clusters*
Kix
Plain*
Honey*
Berry*
Sesame Street C is for Cinnamon
Sesame Street 123 Berry Numbers
Total
Plain*
Wheaties*
Kelloggs’s
All Bran Complete
Wheat Flakes*
Corn Flakes
Crispix
Frosted Mini-Wheats
Original*
Little Bites*
Blueberry*
Strawberry*
Mixed Berry*
Cinnamon Roll*
Chocolate*
Rice Krispies
Plain
Special K
Plain, Banana
Touch-of-Fruit Mini Wheats
Raspberry*
Unfrosted Mini-Wheats*
MOM Brands
Crispy Rice
Blueberry Mini Spooners*
Frosted Mini Spooners*
Strawberry Cream Mini Spooners*
Quaker
Corn Crunch*
Life
Regular*
Strawberry*
Vanilla*
Oatmeal Squares
Brown Sugar*
Cinnamon*
Golden Maple*
Honey Nut*
Sunbelt
Simple Granola*
Store Brands
Bran Cereal
Bran Flakes*: Best Yet, Food Club, Great Value, Hannaford, IGA,
Market Basket, PICs, Price Rite, Shurfine, Signature Select
Oat Cereal
Toasted Oats/O’s*: Best Yet, Food Club, Great Value, IGA,
Market Pantry, PICs, Price Rite, Shurfine, Signature Select
Tasteeos*: Hannaford, Market Basket
Wheat Cereal
Nutty or Crunchy Nuggets*: Great Value, Hannaford, Market Basket,
Market Pantry, PICs, Signature Select
Wheat Squares or Biscuits*, or Pockets: Hannaford, Great Value, Market Basket, Market Pantry, Price Rite, Safeway, Shurfine, Signature Select
Bite Sized Frosted (Original* or Strawberry*): Best Yet, Great Value,
Hannaford, IGA, Market Basket, PICs, Price Rite, Shurfine, Signature Select
Frosted Shredded Wheat*: Food Club
Hot Cereal
No single serving packages, pouches or packets
B & G Foods
Cream of Wheat
Instant, Original 1, 2.5 and 10 minute
Cream of Rice
Regular and Instant
Whole Grain Cream of Wheat*
Farina Mills
Original Creamy Hot Wheat Cereal
Maypo
Instant Maple Oatmeal*
Vermont Style Oatmeal*
MOM Brands
Original Hot Wheat
Creamy Hot Wheat
Quaker
2 Minute Oats
*Cereals containing 51% or more whole grain.
Peanut Butter, Beans, Peas, and Lentils
Peanut Butter
16 oz. to 18 oz. jar only
ANY BRAND
Creamy, Smooth, Crunchy, Chunky allowed.
Canned Beans
15. oz to 16 oz. can only
ANY BRAND and variety is allowed.
Low fat, fat free and vegetarian refried beans are allowed.
No canned green peas, green beans, wax beans, or snap beans.
These beans may be purchased with your fruit and vegetable benefit.
No soups. No chili beans, seasoned beans, or baked beans.
No added meat. No organic.
Dry Beans, Peas, Lentils
16 oz. (1lb.) bag only
ANY BRAND and variety is allowed.
No flavored, seasoned, gourmet, or soup mixes.
Eggs and Canned Fish
Eggs
ANY BRAND, including any color and size. Full dozen only.
Canned Fish
ANY BRAND
Mix and match up to 30 oz., packed in water only.
chunk light tuna (5 oz. cans)
pink salmon (5, 6 or 7.5 oz. cans)
No white or albacore tuna.
No sockeye or red salmon.
No pouches.
No flavored, gourmet, smoked, grilled, blackened, or added ingredients.
Remember
Getting started: Call or go to the following to check your account balance.
Customer Service: 1-855-279-0680
Cardholder Website: www.WICConnect.com
- Select NH WIC from the dropdown menu or
go directly to the NH page using the QR code below. - Click create user account, you will need the primary card holder mailing address zip code, date of birth and card number.
- You may also use your last store receipt or do a benefit balance check at the store.
Shopping with your eWIC card:
Look for the NH WIC Accepted Here sign before shopping. Use the following as a guide for how to do an eWIC transaction. The steps may have minor differences from store to store.
- Select your WIC foods using your household benefit balance and this
NH WIC Food List or the WICShopper App. You can download the WICShopper App using the QR code below. - If the store uses a stand beside device, you need to separate WIC
items from other purchases. - The cashier scans the WIC food items.
- Swipe your eWIC card. Always use your eWIC card first before
other forms of payment. - Enter your four digit PIN.
- Approve the foods bought with your eWIC card.
- Take your card and receipt. Your receipt shows what
you bought and what is left on your eWIC card.
Valid Dates:
Valid dates are the dates you can buy your WIC foods within a month. Check to see your WIC benefits valid dates on your benefit list.
Use your benefits within the dates listed.
Store and manufacturer coupons and promotions
You may use store and manufacturer promotions with your WIC benefits.
Examples are: buy one, get one free; buy one, get one at a reduced price; additional free ounces added by the manufacturer; store savings card or customer rewards cards; and manufacturer cents-off coupons.
Respect store staff.
Respectful Behavior: Anyone shopping with an eWIC card must be respectful and courteous to store staff. Store staff must be respectful and courteous to eWIC cardholders as well.
Selling, returning, or refunding WIC foods is not allowed.
- You may not receive cash refunds, gift cards, change, rainchecks, or IOUs in exchange for WIC benefits, foods
or formula. Only defective, spoiled, or outdated WIC Foods/formula may be exchanged for the same product
at the store. - Infant formula bought with WIC benefits may not be exchanged for another brand or type of formula. Any formula changes must be done at your local WIC office.
- You and your child may be taken off the WIC
program for selling WIC foods or trying to get a
cash refund for WIC foods.
THIS INSTITUTION IS AN EQUAL OPPURTUNITY PROVIDER