Copy a day across the week, repeat a week forward, or set up a rolling menu cycle.
Childminders who reuse the same menu from week to week, or on a rolling cycle. Needs the Standard plan or a free trial. It takes about two minutes.
Plan a day once and copy it across the week. Then repeat the whole week forward, or set up a rolling menu of two or more weeks.
Open the Tools tab and choose Menu Planner. Tap a meal, like Monday's breakfast, choose a meal from your library or type a new one, and tap Add to Menu.
Tap Copy on that day. Choose All other weekdays, or one day, and tap Copy Meals.
Tap Repeat Menu and choose:
Use the arrows to go to that week. The meals are already planned, and you can change any of them.
Tap Rolling Cycle and turn it on. Choose how many weeks the cycle has, choose which cycle week this week is, and tap Save This Week as Week 1 (or 2, 3 and so on). The planner shows which cycle week you're in.
On an empty week, tap Apply Cycle Week 1 Menu (or whichever cycle week it is) to fill it from the saved cycle week.
Tap Offered Meals to switch off meals you don't serve, like breakfast or tea. The planner only shows the meals you offer.
removes every meal from the week you're looking at. Other weeks aren't changed.
Many settings run a two or three week rotating menu so children get variety without a new plan every Sunday. Copying and cycles keep the planner in step with how you already work.
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