🔒 In order to add meals for children, you will need the Access to child information permission enabled
You can create Meal plans for your setting or you can add meals right to a child's Activity feed.
Setting up Meal Plans
To find out how to set up Meal Plans for your setting, visit the article below:
Enter your Meal Types and Items
Before recording a child's meal, it's a good idea to enter your meal types and meal items so you have something to choose from when adding a meal to a child's activity.
To get to your Meal settings:
Click on Settings in your sidebar
Scroll down to Meals and click on Plans
From here, enter your Meal types (breakfast, lunch, or a snack for example)
Once you've entered your meal types, you can add your meal items. These are foods you'd typically give children during the day for each meal type you entered above. You can always come back to this section to add a new meal item by clicking on + Add meal item
If you ever need to delete a meal item, come back to this section of your Settings and click on the bin icon next to a meal item.
Recording a Child's Meals
To record a child's meal and how much of it they ate:
Head to your Overview by clicking on the Home icon in your sidebar, then Overview
Click into a room
Click on a child's photo to select them, and a Status box will pop up on the right
Click on the Meal icon
Next, select the type of meal you're giving the child (these can be set up in your Meal settings)
Next, type in what they ate and select from your meal items
You can choose from any of the meal items you added in your meal settings earlier. If you're giving a child a meal item that hasn't been added in your meal settings, you'll want to go back to your meal settings to add it so you can select it here
Now you can enter how much of that meal the child ate using the slider
You can also click on the '...' to Enter an exact amount
Lastly, you can change the date and time of the meal
Click on Save to confirm!
The details of this meal will now show on the child's Activity feed for the parent to see:
