Write weekly meal menus

Menus is where you write down what's being served, meal by meal. A saved menu pre-fills the food log in each classroom for children marked present, so teachers confirm the meal instead of typing it.

Directors and admins can edit menus.

Find it

On the web, open the School hub and choose Menus. In the app, open the School tab and choose Menus.

There are two menu tiles on the School hub. Menus is the simple day-by-meal editor described here. Menu planner is the age-band version with weekly templates, publishing and family visibility. Use the planner for those (web only). See Plan menus by age group.

Add or edit a meal

The meal types are Breakfast, AM Snack, Lunch, PM Snack and Dinner.

1. Open a meal.
   • On the web, the page shows the whole week as a grid, one card per day. Use Previous week and Next week, or pick a date. Select any meal cell.
   • In the app you see one day at a time. Use the previous and next day arrows, then tap No menu — tap to add or a meal that already has items.
2. Type an Item name and select Add. Repeat for every item.
3. Add a meal note if you want one. It's free text.
4. Select Save.

To change a saved meal, open it again, edit the items and save. To clear it, select Delete menu in the editor.

Component labels

Each item has an optional Component field, such as Grains or Fruit. It's a plain label. Clear Day stores it and shows it back to you.

Allergy flags

The Menus screen has an Allergy flags panel where teachers and admins can review flags on the menu. Only admins on Grow can run Run allergy check.

What teachers see

Teachers see the saved meal already filled in when they log meals for the room, and can adjust it. For how they log it, see Daily reports and activities.