Log a meal

Log each meal and snack. Parents check this first to see if their child ate. Your director also uses it for CACFP (the US food program) records.

The fast way: use today's menu

If your center posts a menu, you rarely type foods. Tap Use today's menu. It fills in the foods and picks the children who are checked in. Then:

1. Tap any child who didn't eat to unpick them.
2. Change a portion if you need to.
3. Save.

Some centers also send a reminder. If a planned meal isn't logged by its usual time, staff clocked in to that room get a push. Logging the meal stops it.

Log a meal

1. Open the Dashboard tab.
2. Tap Log Activity. It's one of the four tiles under the Quick log bar.
3. Tap Meal (or Snack).

Screenshot pendingLog Activity sheet with the Meal tile selected, room pills, and the child avatars

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1. 1Meal tile. Snack is next to it
2. 2Room pills. Every room at your center is here
3. 3Children. Tap each child who ate, or Select All

4. Check the room pill, then tap the children who ate. Select All picks the whole room. (On Android it says Select All (N).)
5. Pick the Meal: Breakfast, AM Snack, Lunch, PM Snack or Dinner.
6. Under Food, tap Use today's menu, or tap Add food and pick from the list.
7. Set Amount eaten: All, Most, Some or None.
8. Want a different amount for each child? Turn on Per child and set each one.
9. Tap Log for N Children (or Save Activity for one child).

The sheet closes and the meal shows on your Home tab. Parents see one entry for their child.

Screenshot pendingThe meal details: meal, food, amount eaten, and the Log for N Children button

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1. 1Meal: Breakfast, AM Snack, Lunch, PM Snack or Dinner
2. 2Food: Use today's menu, or Add food
3. 3Amount eaten: All, Most, Some or None. Per child sets each one
4. 4Log for N Children. The number changes as you pick children

What the amounts mean

• All: cleaned the plate
• Most: ate more than half
• Some: ate a little
• None: didn't eat

Add a photo

1. Before you save, tap Add photos (optional).
2. Tap Take Photo, or Choose from Library (iPhone) / Choose from Gallery (Android).

Android asks for camera permission the first time. Tap allow.

Keep food names the same

Use the same name every time. "PB&J" and "peanut butter sandwich" count as two different foods. Pick from the list instead of typing.

Food not on the list? Type it in the search box. When nothing matches, tap Add new item and pick its group: Grain, Meat & Alt, Vegetable, Fruit or Milk. It's added to your center's list and to this meal.

Fix a mistake

Wrong meal or wrong amount? See Edit or delete an activity. For a group meal, tap Show all N on the card to fix one child.

Troubleshooting

"No children enrolled in this room." You're on the wrong room pill. Tap the right room.

The save button is greyed out. No child is selected. Tap at least one child's face so it's highlighted. Foods are optional: a meal or snack saves without any.

"Pick which meal this was." The meal chip (Breakfast, AM Snack and so on) was tapped off. Tap one back on.

Use today's menu isn't there. No menu was posted for that meal today. Add the foods yourself.

The food list is short. Your center hasn't built its list yet. Add foods as you go with Add new item.

A parent says their child ate more. Edit the entry and change the amount.

Select Present on the web. That button is only on the web Meals → Today page. In the app, use Use today's menu or Select All.