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 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
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) 234-3287 Illinois: (800) 284-5273 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) 877-8339. 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: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, 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) 632-9992. 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. 20250-9410; (2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or (3) email: program.intake@usda.gov.this institution is an equal opportunity provider. (11/2015) e
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155 133 134 135 136 140 56 137 46 44 24 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 176 226 202 10 30 72 107 108 233 112 111 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) 110 45 03 07 113 232 115 22 206 116 114 Cheddar Cheddar Flour Tortilla Tomatoes (French Pizza) Pizza Crust auce English Tomato Soup Pita Macaroni Noodles bread or Sticks
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Dry Beans/Peas/Legumes 51 166 165 168 220 167 171 211 227 170 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 58 60 61 57 Egg auce Egg Flour Tortillas Egg Egg Pot Pie/Quiche Crust Egg English 62 Hot Dogs / Dogs 106 105 104 224 101 48 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@ 215 102 216 103 100 15 16 234 17 11 20 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
Nuts or Seeds cont. 14 18 13 230 67 200 201 63 04 208 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 225 231 217 06 02 01 81 88 85 83 84 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# 210 86 82 87 178 180 177 78 73 80 214 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
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Master Menu Snack 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 110 111 112 113 s Sticks s Sticks 114 115 116 117 118 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 140 s Sticks s Sticks 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 s Sticks s Sticks Master Menu Snack 1^
Master Menu Snack Avocado / Guacamole 167 168 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 200 201 202 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 203 204 205 206 207 208 Chips, /Wheat Pita 210 Tortilla Chips Peppers, Red/Green/ Yellow 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 220 221 222 223 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 224 225 226 227 228 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 Lunchmeat Lunchmeat Sticks Chips, /Wheat Tortillas Pizza Crust Pretzel, Hard Pretzel, Soft Master Menu Snack 1&
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