Here are some helpful tips for editing and building menu templates, whether you created one from scratch or uploaded a paper menu to digitize.
Tips for staying CACFP compliant
When creating a menu, CACFP guardrails run real-time checks to ensure required meal components are included. You’ll get instant feedback to fix issues early and confidently meet CACFP requirements before serving or claiming meals.
Visit Manage CACFP guardrail settings to learn more or disable these alerts.
You can also select a preset age range while building meals, and we’ll auto-fill portions to meet CACFP minimum requirements for each meal.
Creation tips
Weekend menus
If you operate on weekends, enable Show weekends to add meals there.
Duplicate and move meals across days
When building a menu template, save time by copying meals to other days or duplicating entire weeks to build multi-week menus.
Just hover over a meal or week, click the three-dot 
menu, and choose Copy or Move to select a new day.
Automatically assign portions by age
When building meals, you can select one of our preset age ranges and we’ll pre-populate portions/quantities to align with CACFP minimum required portions. You can always modify or choose to leave portions out of your planned meals.
When building meals, click Apply portions for to select the age ranges 1-2, 3-5, or 6-12 yr.
