Enter an Infant Menu by Name [Feature]

This feature allows users to complete an infant feeding record that documents which exact foods were offered to each infant and the amount offered.

We have two methods for entering infant menu by name:

1. Infant Menu by Name - All Participants: this method will show all children under 12 months old on the screen. When the provider or center completes the infant food items, we will check the child in for a meal. This option does NOT allow a preplanned menu to populate the infant menu by name.
2. Infant Menu by Name - Based on Meal Attendance: this method will only show children under 12 months old on the screen who have been checked in for a meal. In other words, the provider or center must do a meal count first before they can enter the infant menu by name. This option DOES allow a preplanned menu to populate the infant menu by name screen.

• Click on Menu from the main dashboard. 

• Click on the date and meal type
• Click Edit Infant Menu

The next screen you see will look different depending on the meal date.

• If it is a meal date in the future, we don't yet know which infants are going to eat and certainly not which foods or the amounts they will be offered. So if the meal is in the future, you will be entering a facility infant menu. Here are the instructions for entering an Infant Menu by Date.
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• If it is a date that is today or in the past, then we are ready to record the infants that ate the meal, which foods were offered and the amounts. Below is what the screen will look like:

1. The infant menu method is Infant Menu by Name - Based on Meal Attendance
   
2. The provider or center entered a planned menu ahead of time.

1. All infants have breastmilk or an iron-fortified infant formula selected.
2. All children that are developmentally ready for solid foods have solids foods entered.
3. The amounts offered are at least the minimum amounts for the infant meal pattern requirements.