Disallow Meals on the Meal Count Screen
Meals can be disallowed on the meal count screen if you are using:
- Daily entry with separate screens for attendance and meal counts
- Daily entry with combined screen for attendance and meal counts
Meal counts cannot be disallowed from the meal count screen if you are using:
- Weekly entry by classroom
- Monthly entry by name
- Multi-Day meal packs (SFSP only)
If you are need to disallow meals and you are not using a view that supports that, you have three options:
- Temporarily change the Meal Count Entry to separate screens or combined screens to disallow the meals
- Use the Bulk Disallow screen (if you are doing meal counts by name)
- Create the claim and then process and adjustment
To disallow meals if taking meal counts by name
- Login as a sponsor admin or sponsor reporter user
- Click on "Meal Count" or "Attendance & Meal Count Entry" on the main site dashboard

OR

- Select the date, roster and meal for which you are disallowing a meal count.
- You can either disallow ALL meals or select individuals.
- Check the box at the top for all, or the box next to each individual’s name under Disallow Meal.
- Select the option for why the meal is being disallowed. Options include:
- Meal counts not current
- Meal counts not taken at point of service
- Meal served is not creditable
- Parent-provided meal
- Special dietary need not correctly accommodated
- All components not served at the same time
- Participant not eligible for CACFP
- Milk Shortage
- Claiming Percentage below 25 percent
- Program records not available during monitoring visit
- Program and claim records received after the deadline
- Report does not match monitor reciew or parent audit
- Site not available for monitoring review
- Failure to attend Required Training
- Unrecorded school holiday, offsite, closure, or virtual learning, etc
- Over Licensed Capacity
- Duplicate Child Claimed with Another Site
- Meal Served Did Not Match Posted Menu
- Meal Not Served within Schedule Meal Service Time
- Participant on incorrect shift
- Based on state agency direction
- Click “Save”.

To disallow meals if taking meal counts by headcount
- Login as a sponsor admin or sponsor reporter user
- Click on "Meal Count" on the main site dashboard

- Select the date, meal and roster
- Enter the number of meals you want to disallow in the field
- Select a reason
- Click the green "Save" button
