In Menu Planner the school publishes the menu for each day and meal, with the dishes, portion size and calories. You add the menu on the web platform, and families and teachers see it in the mobile app, in Menu Planner, and in the News Feed.
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1. How do I add a weekly menu?
Menu Planner › Add Weekly Menu
Click Menu Planner in the left menu. Choose the week from the list at the top right, then click Add Weekly Menu.
Fill in the Name (for example “Menu 16-20 November”) and, under Available for groups, choose the classes that see the menu. Click Add.
Tip: You can make one menu for all classes or different menus for some groups. The same week can have several menus.
2. How do I add dishes to the menu?
Menu Planner › menu › Add Daily Menu
Once the menu is created, choose the day at the top (Monday – Sunday) and the meal on the left: Breakfast, Morning Snack, Lunch, Lunch (second dish), Snack, Dinner. Click Add Daily Menu.
Type the name of the dish. If the dish was used before, it appears in the list with its portion size and calories, and you can pick it. For a new dish, choose new product: ….
If you want, fill in the grams (gr.) and kcal, then click the green save button.
Days and meals that have dishes get a green tick. Use the pencil icon to change a dish and the bin icon to delete it. Repeat the steps for each meal and day.
3. What buttons does a menu have?
Menu Planner › menu
To the right of the menu's title you find these buttons, from left to right:
Download (orange): downloads the menu as a PDF;
Menu comments (blue);
Edit (grey);
Duplicate (green);
Delete (red).
4. How do I add comments to a menu?
Menu Planner › menu › Menu comments
Click the blue button. The Menu comments window opens with the comments added so far. Click Add a comment to write one, or Close.
5. How do I change a menu's name or groups?
Menu Planner › menu › Edit
Click the grey pencil button. Change the Name or Available for groups and click Edit.
6. How do I copy a menu to other weeks?
Menu Planner › menu › Duplicate
Click the green duplicate button. Tick the weeks you want to copy the menu to and click Save the menu for the selected period of time.
Note! The menu is copied only to weeks that don't have a menu yet. The system doesn't overwrite existing data. If a week already has a menu, delete it first.
7. How do I see another week's menu?
Menu Planner › week selector
Click the week at the top right and choose another week from the list. The menus added for that week are shown.
8. How do I delete a menu?
Menu Planner › menu › Delete
Click the red button. In the Confirm window (“Are you sure? You want to delete weekly menu?”) click Delete to delete it, or Cancel.
Note! Deleting a menu is permanent.
9. How do I see the menu in the mobile app?
Kinderpedia app › ☰ › Menu Planner
In the mobile app the menu can only be viewed. Open the main menu (☰, top left) and tap Menu Planner. You can also open it from the bottom bar. The meals of the current day are shown, with the time, dishes, calories and portion size.
Tap the class name (the coloured bar) to choose another class. Use the arrows next to the date to go to the previous or next day.
When the menu is published, the post “added a weekly menu” appears in the News Feed. Tap it to open the menu for the whole week.
Tip: Parents see their child's class menu in Menu Planner and in the News Feed too.
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