Use Meals to configure your meal service, plan menus, manage orders and prepare food. Open More → Meals in Admin OS. Your access and your center’s setup determine the actions available.

Workflow: Configure service → Plan menus → Publish → Receive orders → Prepare & record

1. Find the right workspace

Today shows daily counts. Menus is for planning and publishing. Settings controls service and pricing. Kitchen helps staff prepare orders. Orders contains the order ledger.

Start with the five Meals tabs; select the date before reading the counts.

2. Set up before planning

Configure the meal types you actually offer, their service days and times, pricing, ordering policy and any family choices in Settings.

The meal types, prices and times shown are examples from one center.

3. Plan, review and publish

Create menus or copy existing plans. Check the main item, choices and dietary information, then publish the menus you want families to see. Copies start as drafts.

4. Prepare and record

Review orders and kitchen counts for the service date. Record what was actually served. Use the separate More → Food program workspace for enabled food-program records.

Before you finish

• A menu, an order, a served status, a daily care log and a food-program meal count are separate records. One does not prove the others exist.

• Meal prices and deadlines are set by your center; screenshots do not describe a universal Bloomily meal policy.

All meal guides

Meal setup

• Setting Up Meal Types, Times, and Pricing

• Editing or Removing a Meal Type

• Setting Per-Child Meal Pricing Exceptions

• Setting Up the Daily Kitchen Digest

Menu planning

• Creating a Daily Menu

• Adding Family Notes and Dietary Information to a Menu

• Adding Alternative Meal Choices for Families

• Publishing Menus to Families

• Editing, Unpublishing, or Deleting a Menu

• Copying a Menu to Another Day

• Copying a Week of Menus

• Duplicating Menus into Another Month

• Creating and Using Menu Templates

• Publishing a Full Month of Menus

• Exporting the Monthly Menu

Orders & kitchen

• Viewing Daily Meal Counts and Participation

• Using the Kitchen View and Daily Kitchen Digest

• Viewing and Filtering Meal Orders

• Placing a Meal Order for a Child

• Updating or Cancelling a Meal Order

• Recording Meals as Served, Cancelled, or No-Show

• Managing Food Program and CACFP Meal Records

• Printing the Kitchen Meal List

• Exporting Kitchen Meal Data to CSV

For families

• How Families View Menus and Place Meal Orders

Screenshots show an example center. Meal prices, times, service days and ordering policies depend on your center’s configuration.