Reimbursable Meal

This form allows School Food Authorities to create meals that are reimbursable. Reimbursable meals can only be applied to Cycle Menu-Final Rule and School Cycle Menus.

A reimbursable meal consists of all required food components: any grain/meat/meat alternates in a main and/or side dish; total amount of fruit offered with this meal; total amount of vegetables in a main and/or side dish; and the amount of milk that meet the minimum requirements of the selected nutritional standard.

Search and Filter

To search for a specific meal, enter the description in the Search By: Description text field.
To filter the results shown in the grid, select a meal group from the Filter By Group dropdown list.

Buttons

The button allows the user to view and edit an existing meal.
- This is also used to create/add information once a meal is entered in the fields at the bottom.

The button allows the user to duplicate a Meal by creating an exact copy of the original meal with a new and meal Id.
- Enter a unique Short Name and Description for the new meal in the text fields.
  - It will not duplicate inactive recipes.

The button allows the user to delete an existing meal.
- The deleted meal will be removed from any applied Cycle Menus or School Daily Menus.
- Meals cannot be marked as inactive; therefore, they must be deleted to be “deactivated.”

The button allows the user to print a list of the reimbursable meals as they appear in the grid.

Overview of the Reimbursable Meal Screen

Create a New Reimbursable Meal

Click the Clear button to clear the text fields, if necessary.

The Meal ID field will automatically populate. This will not match the recipe ID.
Enter a unique abbreviated name in the Short Name text field. This will be used on calendars.
Enter the unique full description of the meal in the Description text field.

NOTE:The same short name/ description can be in recipes.

Select a meal group name from the Group dropdown list.
- This is set up under Meals/Menus: Meal Group.

Click View/Edit button to add or edit information to the meal.

Reimbursable Meal Section

This information was defined on the previous page and is read-only.

The and buttons allow you to move to the next reimbursable meal in the grid without returning to the previous page.

Setup Grid

This screen allows you add recipes to the meal. All recipes in the meal are considered Reimbursable.

NOTE:The Projected serving size is 100.

Click the green plus sign to add recipes to the reimbursable meal.
- Add as many recipes as needed to create the meal.
- The Inactive checkboxes are read-only. They are references to indicate if a recipe added is inactive.

Click to red minus sign to delete recipes from the grid.
Use the buttons to navigate and highlight a row.
Click the button to search for recipes, ingredients or meals. It functions similarly to Search feature in Manage Recipes.
- When a recipe is added with the Search button, the Calculated Components will update upon clicking Close on the search form.

Click the button to display a screen similar to Manage Recipes.
- You can update recipe information here.

Analysis estimate

This tab gives you a quick analysis of the meal that is being built, and see any nutritional requirements that may not be met.

Select a Nutritional Standard from the dropdown list.

Values

The meal’s calories, Saturate Fat and Sodium will display here and are un-weighted values. This is calculated from the recipes added and is read-only.

How to delete a fraction from the Size columns

Highlight the row by clicking on it or using the arrow.
Click the fraction you want to delete. This will unselect that cell in the grid.
Press the Delete key on your keyboard. The fraction will be deleted.

Contributions grid

This grid displays an instant summary of the recipes creditable contributions toward the meal if the user does not change any of the recipes default serving size.

These cells are read-only and populated with information from the contributions and nutrients in the recipe(s).
If any of the default portion sizes are altered, all calculated values will be removed. They can be entered manually.
Inactive recipes do not contribute to the Calculated Contributions.

Fruit	Uses the sum of the total Fruit component in the recipe for the calculated Fruit contribution.
Fruit Juice	Uses the sum of the value of the Fruit component in the recipe for the recipes(s) that have its Meal Component Type marked as Juice.
Vegetables (Dk Gr, R/O, Leg, Starchy, Other)	Uses the sum of the total specific Vegetables component in the recipe.
Total Vegetable	Uses the sum of the total vegetables in this grid to ensure the vegetable meal requirement has been met.
Vegetable Juice	Uses the sum of the value of all the Vegetable components in the recipe for the recipes(s) that have its Meal Component Type marked as Juice.
Whole Grain-Rich	Uses the sum of the whole Grain-rich component in the recipe.
Enriched Grain	Uses the sum of the total enriched grain component in this recipe
Dessert Grain	Uses the sum of all the Grain components in the recipe for the recipes(s) that have its Meal Component Type is marked as Dessert.
Total Grain	Uses the sum of the total enriched and dessert grains in this grid to ensure the grain meal requirement has been met.
Meat/ Alt	Uses the sum the total Meat/Alt component in the recipe.
Milk	Uses the sum of all the Milk components in the recipes that are marked with any combination of Skim-Flavored, Skim-Unflavored, Low-fat- Unflavored, or Low-fat-Flavored descriptions. See below for a more detailed explanation of Milk. For the NSLP and SBP, variety (at least two choices of milk) can be accomplished by offering different allowable fat levels (fat-free and low-fat) and milk flavor in fat-free milk only.

The Saved Contribution cells below the read-only Calculated Contribution cells can be modified by the user. The saved values will be used elsewhere in the product, i.e. adding a reimbursable meal to a cycle menu.
- Meals Plus will use what is entered here for Meal Contributions, but the user must verify that the entries are correct for nutritional standards.

When the meal is complete, click Save.

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MNU Version 9, revised 03/2018