Provided to you by: An efficient, time saving method of tracking meals served in your child care home. The is a time-saving coding system designed for ACD Providers to reduce time writing menus. The s are for children who are one (1) year old or older. The nutritional needs of infants are far too demanding for pre-planned templates. Therefore, only record on the Regular Menu form. The benefits of the system include: Less writing required on menu records. Less meal planning time since meals/snacks are already planned for you. Simply choose the ones you want to serve and record the corresponding reference codes on the menu form. Flexibility. The system offers choices. You make the decisions. You can use leftovers, buy in bulk, and serve foods the children enjoy eating. Ability to plan meals/snacks in advance to fit your schedule. Variety. Food items featured on the system allows you to use variety in cooking preparation and recipe choices. Allows you to use money-saving strategies. You have the ability to plan in advance what you will be serving, so you can watch for bargains and sales, and clip discount coupons. You can also incorporate leftovers. If chicken is left 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 unfortunately cannot be claimed on Master Menu. Portions/Serving Sizes: Please consider the serving size of menu items when planning meals by referring to the CACFP Meal Pattern Chart for Infants and Children for proper serving/portion sizes according to age group (i.e., tomato soup, peanut butter, macaroni and cheese, fish sticks, chicken nuggets, pot pies, etc.). q
Tips to Remember (continued) Homemade or Child Nutrition (CN) Label: When serving an item such as pizza or ravioli, it must be homemade 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 Infants and Children. CN/HM denotes CN Label or Homemade. / Alternates: When serving any bread/bread alternates (i.e., pasta, buns, cookies etc.), please make sure each item is made from whole-grain or enriched meal or flour. Please refer to the Meal Charts for Infants and Children provided by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE). Less than 1/8 cup of any fruit/vegetable is considered a garnish and is not creditable toward a fruit/ vegetable requirement. Fruit or vegetable dishes that contain more than one fruit or vegetable (e.g., fruit cocktail) may be credited toward only one of the two required components at lunch/dinner. Only juice that is 100% juice is creditable. Apple cider is creditable if it is undiluted, unsweetened, or and pasteurized. Combination Dishes: Dishes that contain foods from more than one food group are combination dishes. Combination dishes 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 toward the meat/meat alternate component and one vegetable serving. Processed Meats: Processed meat and poultry products may be served on the CACFP. Only the meat in these products can be credited. Since many processed meats contain large amounts of binders and extenders, the composition of these processed meats must be known in order to properly credit the meat/meat alternate portion. Dessert Items: It is recommended that no more than two dessert-type items be served as a snack each week (i.e., bread pudding, brownies, cake, cookies, cupcakes, etc.). Water Specification: Throughout the day, including at meal times, water should be made available to children to drink upon their request, but does not have to be available for children to self-serve. While drinking water must 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. Requirement: Fluid milk served to children two years of age and older must be: fat-free or low-fat milk, fat-free or low-fat lactose reduced milk, fat-free or low-fat lactose free milk, fat-free or low-fat buttermilk, or fat-free or low-fat acidified milk. served must be pasteurized fluid milk that meets Michigan and local standards, and may be flavored or unflavored. Whole milk and reduced-fat (2%) milk may not be served to participants over two years of age. NOTE: The s are available to Providers in good standing and who have not previously been denied use of any of ACD s timesaving menu recording options. w
INSTRUCTIONS: 1. When you serve a, mark the or M bubble for that meal. 2. Next, record the specific you are using. Look at the chart and choose the corresponding 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 don t need to mark the specific foods, because we know which foods were served as part of that. 5. Please keep your menu in an accessible area for unannounced home reviews conducted by ACD, the Michigan Department of Education, and/or the United States Department of Agriculture. As with all types of menus, must always be available for review in your child care home. EXAMPLE: On this day (the 22nd of the month), you served Breakfast, AM Snack, and Lunch For Breakfast, you served #23 Breakfast, AM Snack, and Lunch were served to children #1, 2, 6, 11, 12 For Lunch, you served #43 Questions? Contact one of our Customer Service Specialists at (800) 324-3287! e
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