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1 Master Menu Provided to you by: An efficient, time-saving method of tracking meals served in your child care home. The Master Menu is a coding system designed to help ACD Providers save time while writing menus. The Master Menus are for children who are one year old or older. The nutritional needs of infants are often too variable for pre-planned templates. Therefore, only record Master Menu on the Regular Menu form. Master Menu can also be used in the online claiming program. The benefits of the Master Menu system include: Ease: Spend less time recording your menus. Time-saving: Spend less time meal planning because meals/snacks are already planned for you. Simply choose the meals you want to serve and record the corresponding reference codes on the menu form. Flexibility: The Master Menu system offers choices. You make the decisions. You can use leftovers, buy in bulk, and serve foods the children enjoy eating. Planning: Plan meals/snacks in advance to fit your busy schedule. Variety: The food items featured on the Master Menu system allow you to use variety in cooking methods and recipe choices. Money-saving: You have the ability to plan in advance what you will be serving so you can watch for bargains and sales, clip coupons, or incorporate leftovers. If chicken is leftover from one meal, you can choose meals from the list for the next day that also contain chicken. Tips to Remember Substitutions: If you are missing a component for any particular Master Menu meal, you must bubble in all the individual meal components for that meal. Substitutions cannot be claimed on Master Menu. Portions/Serving Sizes: Please consider the serving sizes of menu items when planning meals by referring to the CACFP Meal Pattern Chart for children for minimum serving sizes according to age group (i.e., tomato soup, peanut butter, cheese, bread, chicken, pot pies, etc.). Master Menu q

Tips to Remember (continued) Homemade or Child Nutrition (CN) Label: When serving combination items such as pizza or ravioli, it is often difficult to to determine the quantities of different

If commercially prepared, use Child Nutrition (CN) labels to ensure these products meet the CACFP meal pattern requirements.

2 Tips to Remember (continued) Homemade or Child Nutrition (CN) Label: When serving combination items such as pizza or ravioli, it is often difficult to to determine the quantities of different components. In these cases, the food must be made with quantities which meet CACFP meal pattern requirements (i.e., add extra meat or cheese). If commercially prepared, use Child Nutrition (CN) labels to ensure these products meet the CACFP meal pattern requirements. CN Labels provide information about a food s contribution toward the meal pattern. Please refer to the CACFP Meal Pattern Chart for children. CN/HM denotes CN Label or Homemade. Grains/s: When serving any bread/bread alternates (i.e., pasta, buns, etc.), please make sure each item is made from whole grain or enriched meal or flour. Please refer to the CACFP Meal Pattern Chart for children. Vegetables/Fruits: Less than 1/8 cup of any fruit/vegetable is considered a garnish and is not creditable as a fruit/vegetable. Fruit or vegetable dishes that contain more than one fruit or vegetable (e.g., mixed vegetables) may be credited toward only one of the two required components at lunch/dinner unless they are in combination dishes and identifiable as individual servings and are served as part of an entree (e.g. chef salad). Only 100% fruit or vegetable juice is creditable. Juice can only be claimed once a day. Combination Dishes: Combination dishes (dishes that contain foods from more than one food group) can be credited for up to three different food components in a meal. For example, beef stew, which may include beef, potatoes, carrots, and peas, may be credited as one meat/meat alternate and one vegetable serving. Processed Meats: Processed meat and poultry products may be served on the CACFP. Only the meat in these products is creditable. Since many processed meats contain large amounts of binders and extenders, the composition of these products must be known in order to properly credit the meat/meat alternate portion. Dessert Items: Grain-based desserts (i.e. brownies, cake, cookies, cupcakes, etc.) are not creditable on on CACFP. They may be served as an extra item or at a meal or snack that is not claimed. Water Requirements: Water should be made available to children (one year and older) throughout the day upon request or offered to children who may be too young to request it on their own. It does not have to be available for children to self-serve. While drinking water should be made available to children during meal times, it is not part of the reimbursable meal and may not be served in place of fluid milk. It is recommended that water be served at snack if no other beverage is offered. Requirements: served must be pasteurized fluid milk that meets state and local standards. It can be regular, lactose-reduced, lactose-free, buttermilk, or acidified. Fluid milk served to one year old children must be whole milk. Fluid milk served to children two years of age and older must be fat-free (skim) or low-fat milk (1%). Flavored milk is not creditable for children under 6 years of age. Reduced-fat (2%) milk is not creditable. NOTE: The Master Menus are available to Providers in good standing and who have not previously been denied use of any of ACD s time-saving menu recording options. Master Menu w

3 INSTRUCTIONS: 1. When you serve a Master Menu, mark the Master Menu or M bubble for that meal. 2. Next, record the specific Master Menu you are using. Look at the Master Menu chart and choose the corresponding Master Menu number for that meal. 3. Mark this number in the lowest Fruit or Vegetable section for that meal. 4. That s it! You will still mark meal attendance as normal indicating which children received that Master Menu but you do not need to mark the specific foods because we know which foods were served as part of that Master Menu. 5. Please keep your menu in an accessible area for unannounced home reviews conducted by ACD, the state agency, and/or the United States Department of Agriculture. As with all types of menus, Master Menu must always be available for review in your child care home. EXAMPL On this day (the 22nd of the month), you served Breakfast, AM Snack, and Lunch For Breakfast, you served Master Menu #23 Breakfast, AM Snack, and Lunch were served to children #1, 2, 6, 11, 12 For Lunch, you served Master Menu #43 Master Menu Questions? Contact one of our Customer Service Specialists! Michigan: (800) Illinois: (800) This project is funded at least in part by USDA funds through the Michigan Department of Education and/or the Illinois State Board of Education. In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English. To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD- 3027) found online at: and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: (1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C ; (2) fax: (202) ; or (3) program.intake@usda.gov.this institution is an equal opportunity provider. (11/2015) e

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9 Macaroni Noodles auce Brown Rice auce Asparagus French Fries Bun French Fries Bun Pizza Crust Pizza Crust Master Menu Lunch/Dinner cont. Bun Mashed Potatoes Baked Beans Tomatoes Lunchmeat/ Processed Lunchmeat/ Processed Cucumbers White Rice auce French Fries Banana cont. Baked Beans Potato Salad Squash bread or Sweet Potato/Yams Baked Beans Baked Potato Mashed Potatoes Brown Rice Master Menu Lunch/Dinner o

10 cont. auce Squash auce Mashed Potatoes White Rice Peppers Red/Green/ Yellow Sticks Baked Potato Chow Mein Noodles Meat Sauce HM/CN Master Menu Lunch/Dinner cont. Sausage - CN Sausage - CN Sausage - CN Sausage - CN Pizza Crust Sausage - CN Cabbage Peppers, Red/Green/ Yellow Sausage - CN Bun Mashed Potatoes Tomato Soup Hi Ho/Ritz Cheddar Tortilla Cheddar Tortilla Chips Salsa cont. Master Menu Lunch/Dinner 1) Cheddar Cheddar Flour Tortilla Tomatoes (French Pizza) Pizza Crust auce English Tomato Soup Pita Macaroni Noodles bread or Sticks

11 cont. Macaroni Noodles Cucumbers Macaroni Noodles EXTRA auce EXTRA Cucumbers EXTRA EXTRA Ravioli EXTRA EXTRA Tomato Soup Master Menu Lunch/Dinner cont. Ricotta Lasagna Noodles Ricotta Ravioli Bun Macaroni Noodles Tomatoes Pot Pie/Quiche Crust auce Brown Rice Pot Pie/Quiche Crust Wild Rice cont. Pot Pie/Quiche Crust Brown Rice Croissant Tomatoes Spinach ing HM/CN Cauliflower Squash bread or Sweet Potato/Yams Nuggets French Fries Nuggets Nuggets Nuggets ing HM/CN French Fries Master Menu Lunch/Dinner 1!

12 Dry Beans/Peas/Legumes Baked Beans Flour Tortilla Tomatoes Baked Beans Baked Beans Sweet Potato/Yams Bean/Split Pea Soup Bean/Split Pea Soup Black-Eyed Peas Brown Rice Spinach Lentils Pita Pinto Beans Tomato/Vegetable Tortilla Tortilla Chips Salsa Master Menu Lunch/Dinner Egg auce Egg Flour Tortillas Egg Egg Pot Pie/Quiche Crust Egg English 62 Hot Dogs / Dogs Dog White Rice Dog ing HM/CN Dog ing HM/CN Dog ing HM/CN Hot Dogs/Franks Flour Tortillas Hot Dogs/Franks Buns Hot Dogs/ Dogs cont. Master Menu Lunch/Dinner 1@ Hot Dogs/Franks French Fries Hot Dogs/Franks Potato Salad Hot Dogs/Franks auce Hot Dogs/Franks Tomato Soup Hot Dogs/Franks Nuts or Seeds Celery English Celery Flour Tortillas

13 Nuts or Seeds cont Tomato Soup Bologna (No Fillers) auce Bologna (No Fillers) Cucumbers Bologna (No Fillers) Pita Bologna (No Fillers) Flour Tortilla Cauliflower Pizza Crust Macaroni Noodles Master Menu Lunch/Dinner cont. bread or Mashed Potatoes Pepperoni Pizza Crust Pepperoni Pizza Crust Pepperoni English White Rice Baked Beans auce bread or ing HM/CN cont. Master Menu Lunch/Dinner 1# bread or Mashed Potatoes Brown Rice Tortilla Sausage - Fresh Hash browns Sausage - Fresh Sausage - Fresh Hash browns Seafood Fish Fillets auce Fish Fillets Baked Beans Fish Fillets White Rice Fish Fillets Cole Slaw

14 Seafood cont. Fish Fillets French Fries Fish Fillets Fish Fillets Fish Sticks Sticks Tuna French Fries Mixed Fruit Tuna Tuna Spinach Master Menu Lunch/Dinner cont. Stuffing Mashed Potatoes White Rice Bun Mushrooms White Rice Baked Beans Cabbage Taco Shell Cucumbers Baked Potato Bun cont. White Rice Peppers, Red/Green/ Yellow Cauliflower Sticks Squash Zucchini Master Menu Lunch/Dinner 1$

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17 Master Menu Snack Avocado / Guacamole Avocado / Guacamole Tortillas Avocado / Guacamole Flour Tortillas Avocado / Guacamole Pita Avocado / Guacamole Tortilla Chips Avocado / Guacamole Refried beans Pimento Celery Celery Refried beans Celery Celery Celery Celery Pimento Celery Cucumber Cucumber Cucumber Cucumber Cucumber Cucumber Cucumber Pimento Cucumber Chips, /Wheat Pita 210 Tortilla Chips Peppers, Red/Green/ Yellow Peppers, Red/Green/ Yellow Refried beans Peppers, Red/Green/ Yellow Peppers, Red/Green/ Yellow Pimento Peppers, Red/Green/ Yellow Tortilla Flour Tortilla Tortilla Chips Salsa Salsa Salsa Tortilla Chips Sticks Lunchmeat Lunchmeat Sticks Chips, /Wheat Tortillas Pizza Crust Pretzel, Hard Pretzel, Soft Master Menu Snack 1&

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Master Menu. Provided to you by: An efficient, time saving method of tracking meals served in your child care home.

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