Meal Counts by Name Using My Food Program+

• Tap or click on MEAL COUNT & ATTENDANCE from the main MFP+ dashboard

• Select the date (defaults to the current date)
• Select the roster
• Select the meal*

*By default all the meal types are displayed. If you are locked into meal service times, then the only buttons available to tap or click are those that are currently open. You cannot check a participant into a meal that hasn't started yet.

• Find the participant you would like to check in for the meal
• Tap the meal count box and it will turn green unless there is a reason you cannot take a meal count

If meal count entry is disabled, you will get a message telling you why in the upper-right corner. Some common reasons are

• Attendance has not been entered yet
• Menu entry is required before meal counts
• Food production records are required before meal counts
• Food temperatures are required before meal counts
• The meal time hasn't started yet
• There is a site closure recorded for the day

• If you have more than one shift for a meal, you will see the meal listed twice.
• Tap or click to check a participant in for each shift at which they were present.

Note: after you check a participant in for one shift, the button for the other shift will say "present" instead of CACFP, AR, SA, PS or N/C. This is so that providers or centers know to check a participant in at each shift at which they were present while only eating at one.

• If you are a child care center that is also operating an At-Risk Afterschool Meals Program and/or a Head Start Program, you may have participants with more than one meal count button.
• In the example below, the first participant is authorized for both the At-Risk Afterschool Meals Program and the standard CACFP program.
• Tap or click the "AR" button to record this meal as eligible for your At-Risk Afterschool Meals program claim.
• Tap or click the "CACFP" button to record this meal as eligible for your standard CACFP program claim.