Meal Reporting is a great reporting option that can be leveraged to collect necessary data when needing to ensure that your school or center is in compliance with the CACFP (Child and Adult Care Food Program) federal program that provides reimbursement for healthful meals and snacks served to children and adults.
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Creating a Meal Report
Log in to your account on the web
Click to open the Reporting page
Under 'Student reports', select Meal
Use the available filters as needed (Room, Student status, Dates)
Click Apply
Click Export Summary to see an overview of all meals logged within the specified date range
Click Export Records to view details of how many meals you've logged
Input an email address the summary or records should be sent to and click Send
Custom Meal Report
With brightwheel's powerful Custom Report Builder, it allows administrators to pull student Food Plan Type data within your brightwheel account and offers flexibility to organize that data in a way that best fits your program. Review our Custom Reports Help Center article for more details.
FAQs
Why does my meal report show some records as not_specified?
Food activity for the student must have been recorded with the meal type entered, such as breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, etc. Otherwise, this meal type will show as not_specified on the Meal Report.
Why do the total numbers of meals shown on the exported records not match the total numbers shown on the meal report summary?
Meals will only count in the exported meal records if the student was checked into the room the meal was provided in. If a meal was logged for a student in a room they were not checked into; the meal will not appear on the detailed exported records.
The exported meal summary will count all meals logged regardless of if a student was checked in/out. If students are missing a check-in record for the room the meal is logged in; you'll see this meal counted in the meal summary but not in the records, which most likely can explain this difference.
If you'd like to adjust the numbers listed on the exported meal records, you'll need to be sure all students have check-in events on the days and in the rooms they also had a meal logged. You might consider utilizing the Check-in Report and downloading the Meal Report to compare and determine where check-in discrepancies are.