Creating a Food Production Record for a Single Meal

A food production record is a log of how much food was made to feed the participants at a meal or snack. Food production records are often used to confirm that each participant received a portion size of each food item to satisfy the meal pattern requirements.

1. There must be a menu entered in order to create a food production record.
2. Once a food production record is finalized, the menu can no longer be edited.
3. Food production records can be deleted until a site clicks "Submit to Sponsor".

• Click on “Menu” on the main dashboard. This will take you to the menu calendar.

• On the menu calendar, click on the date and meal for which you would like to generate a food production record. This will take you to the Meal Details screen.
• On the Meal Details screen, click on the blue “Edit Food Production” button in the lower right corner. This will take you to the Food Production screen.

The Food production has four columns:

1. Numbers for Production Record: these are the numbers that are manually entered by the center to be used in food production calculations.
2. Estimate from Schedules: these numbers will be filled in for dates in the future and will include our estimates for how many participants we expect in each age category based on participant schedules. If you choose not to enter participant schedules into My Food Program, this column will always display zero.
3. Actual Meal Counts: this column will be filled in for dates that are today or in the past and will include the actual counts of each participant in each age category. This column will not be filled in if you are taking meal counts by headcount since we do not know the age category for the participants.
4. Age Range: A list of the CACFP age ranges.

• Complete the fields for “Number for Production Records”. If there are no participants in a particular age range, you can leave it blank. It is not necessary to type a zero into those fields.
• Click the blue “Estimate Production” button and the estimates will appear at the bottom. To generate the estimates, My Food Program multiplies the number of participants in each age range by the minimum portion size requirements associated with that age range.
• Edit the estimates to reflect the actual amount of food and fluid milk produced and click the green “Save” button to be returned to the Meal Details screen. You will now see the food production amounts listed on the Meal Details screen.

• You now have the ability to finalize your food production record. Learn more about finalizing food production records here.

If you wish to change the units, you must go back to the menu and select a different food item. For example, if you want your food production record to be pounds, then you need to select a food item with “(in lbs)” in the description. Otherwise, the units will default to those used in the meal pattern requirements (cups and ounces).