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Enable Individual Infant Menu Reporting
Individual infant reporting allows your centers to record menus for each, individual infant in KidKare. This not only may meet a state reporting requirement, but it also allows centers to account for infants at differing developmentally ready status...
Manage Menu Footers
You can add footers to infant and non-infant menus from the Manage Menu Footers dialog box. The text you enter here prints on the following reports: Center Monthly Menu Plan Center Weekly Menu Plan Center Weekly Menu - Non-Infants Only Center W...
Create Master Menus
You can create centralized menus for individual site use. First, create one or more master menu plans. Then, release them to the sites you choose. Once sites receive the master menu, they can print the Menu report and post it in their center for sta...
Create Menu Templates
Menu templates are reusable menus that are not specific to the day or meal. Both sponsors and centers can create and use menu templates. Any center-created templates are only visible to the center that created them (and the sponsor). You can create ...
[VIDEO] Print the Menu Production Record
The Menu Production Record lists the amount of food centers need to serve and purchase to adequately serve children in their care. It may also include actual quantities served and leftover quantities, if recorded (subject to policy M.01 ...
Print Scheduled Center Menus
We recommend you periodically review your sites’ planned menus to ensure that they meet meal pattern requirements each day. Printing the Center Monthly Menu Report Click the Reports menu, Menus , and select Center Monthly Menu Plan . Th...
Record Center Menus
You can record menus for any selected center, if needed. Note that these are the same steps a center would follow to record menus themselves in Minute Menu CX, save for Step 1 . Click the Select Center drop-down menu at the top of the window an...
Print Individual Infant Menus
If you have enabled individual infant menu reporting, you can print individual infant menus. The Infant Feeding Report lists menus for each infant served and includes the following for each meal: Meal Components Food Served by Component Quantity...
Manage Ounce Equivalents on Menus
As of October 1, 2021, the USDA requires that all grains served be recorded using ounce equivalents instead of standard units of measurement. This requirement applies to both the Bread/Alt and Infant Cereal components. To accommodate this policy and...
Ounce Equivalents for Centers
Once you enable policy M.17 to use ounce equivalents in CX and KidKare and update your food list, your centers will be able to: Override the ounce equivalents calculation saved to the food list when recording menus in CX and KidKare. View all e...