Plan the week, share with parents in one tap, edit anytime. Run more than one menu side by side. CACFP-aware as you go — so you catch rule errors at planning time, not after a state visit.
From an empty week to a menu families can actually see — in three steps, on one screen.
Tap Edit Meals on any day, fill in your enabled meal slots — Breakfast, AM Snacks, Lunch, PM Snacks, Dinner. Or use Duplicate Meals to bulk-apply a meal across many future days at once.
Use the Food Menu dropdown to switch between menus. Add a second menu for a dietary need or a different room with one tap on + Add Menu.
Pick who sees the week — everyone, specific rooms, individual students, or staff only. Edit anything mid-week and the people you shared with always see the latest version.
Not a spreadsheet, not a printed PDF. The way menu planning, sharing, and updates actually happen at a daycare.
5 days by default, 7 if you flip on weekends in settings. Tap Edit Meals on any day to fill in Breakfast, AM Snacks, Lunch, PM Snacks, or Dinner.
Use the Food Menu dropdown to switch between menus. Add a second one for a different room or a dietary need with + Add Menu.
Pick one meal you’ve already planned, then check every future day you want to serve it on — across this week, next week, the week after. Bulk-fill in seconds, no copy-paste.
Share with everyone, a specific room (Blue, Green, Toddlers…), individual students, or staff only. Granular by design — not a blast to the whole center every time.
Toggle Show CACFP rules in settings and the planner highlights errors and meal-pattern hints while you build the week — not after the inspector calls.
When a teacher posts a Food activity, the meal type and items pull from what you planned for that day — what was promised is what got logged.
Click Edit Meals on any day and type what you’re serving for each enabled meal — Breakfast, AM Snacks, Lunch, PM Snacks, Dinner — then save. Each meal is its own slot, so swapping a single item later is a one-tap edit, not a re-do of the whole day.
Most centers don’t serve the same thing to everyone. Run a regular menu plus a second one for a dietary need or a different room. Use the Food Menu dropdown at the top to flip between menus while planning, and tap + Add Menu to spin up another whenever you need it.
Open the gear icon next to Manage and the Food Program bends to how you actually run your day. Show weekends or hide them, turn on CACFP rule highlighting for compliance hints, and pick which of the five meal types you serve plus their default times.
Most days follow a rhythm. Pancake Mondays, lentil-soup Wednesdays, pizza Fridays. Pick the meal you’ve already planned, then tick every future day you want to serve it on — across this week, next week, the week after. Hit Duplicate meals and the planner fills it all in at once.
Most centers send a PDF every Sunday and pin a printed sheet on the door. Food Program replaces both — for parents and for staff.
You see a weekly grid for the current week. By default it’s Monday through Friday, but you can flip on Show weekends in settings to plan all 7 days. Click Edit Meals on any day to add what you’re serving — Breakfast, AM Snacks, Lunch, PM Snacks, Dinner — then save. Use the chevrons next to the week label to step backward or forward through weeks.
Yes. Open the gear icon on the Food Program page and toggle Show weekends on calendar. The grid expands to 7 days so you can plan Saturday and Sunday meals (helpful for centers that operate weekends or that prep weekend programs).
Yes. Toggle Show CACFP rules in settings and the planner highlights errors and gives compliance hints while you’re building the menu. It’s designed to make CACFP food-pattern requirements visible at planning time, not after a state inspection. (It does not replace your sponsor’s review process.)
Yes. The default meal types are Breakfast, AM Snacks, Lunch, PM Snacks, and Dinner, and each one has a default serving time. In the Food Program settings, you can enable or disable each one and edit its default time so the planner matches how your center actually runs the day.
Yes. Tap + Add Menu to create another menu alongside your Regular menu. Centers commonly run a regular menu plus a second menu for a dietary need or a different room. Use the Food Menu dropdown to switch between them while planning.
It bulk-applies a meal you’ve already planned to as many other days as you want. Open Duplicate Meals, pick the source menu, the source date, and the meal type. Then tick every target day across the upcoming weeks (Sun–Sat per week, multiple weeks at once, or use Select all). Hit Duplicate meals and the meal copies to every target day in one go — no copy-paste, no day-by-day re-entry.
Tap the share button on the week and you’ll get a Share weekly menu picker. Choose Share with Everyone for the whole center, or expand Share with students to pick specific rooms (Blue, Green, Toddlers, etc.) and even individual students within a room. There’s a separate Share with staff section too. Confirm and the menu becomes visible to exactly the people you picked — in the parent app, no PDF, no attachment.
Edit the day in real time. Parents see the updated menu the next time they open the app — no resend, no second email, no confusion about which version is current.
Yes. When a teacher posts a Food activity from the room, the meal type and items can pull from what you planned for that day, so what was promised is what got logged. See Communications for the Activity Feed in detail.
Yes. Use the chevrons on the week navigator to move forward to next week or any future week, then build that week’s plan ahead of time. Duplicate Meals also works across any two weeks you choose — copy three weeks ahead in seconds.
Open MyKidReports free, plan this week’s menu, and share it with your families. Multiple menus, duplicate-week, and one-tap sharing are all already wired up — from day one.