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Enter your provider information below. Site Number:
Provider or Assistant? (Choose one).
First Name:
Last Name:
1. What kinds of menus would you like to see on the preplanned menus? (Check all that apply.)
Healthier Meals - foods for better health, to prevent weight gain, heart disease and cancer, such as turkey burgers, baked chicken, blueberries,and whole wheat bread
Seasonal Menus - Menus using fruits and vegetables in season, such as strawberries, watermelon, and corn-on-the-cob.
Family Favorites - Meals like Mom used to make, such as meatloaf, lasagna, soups, and stew
Children's Favorites - kids' favorites like peanut butter and jelly, chicken nuggets and hot dogs
Fast and Easy - Meals with 15-30 minutes preparation time using convenience foods, such as chili, casseroles, spaghetti, and skillet meals
Vegetarian - Meatless meals using beans, cheese, eggs and milk
2. Which type of menu would you use most often? (Check one.)
Healthier Meals - foods for better health, to prevent weight gain, heart disease and cancer, such as turkey burgers, baked chicken, blueberries,and whole wheat bread
Seasonal Menus - Menus using fruits and vegetables in season, such as strawberries, watermelon, and corn-on-the-cob.
Family Favorites - Meals like Mom used to make, such as meatloaf, lasagna, soups, and stew
Children's Favorites - kids' favorites like peanut butter and jelly, chicken nuggets and hot dogs
Fast and Easy - Meals with 15-30 minutes preparation time using convenience foods, such as chili, casseroles, spaghetti, and skillet meals
Vegetarian - Meatless meals using beans, cheese, eggs and milk
3. At snack, this is the beverage I serve most: (Choose one.)
Milk
100% Fruit Juice
Water
4. At breakfast, I serve fruit juice: (Choose one.)
1-2 Times per week
3-4 times per week
Every Day
5. How would you like the meals listed on the pre-planned menu?: (Choose one.)
7 days of menus on each page. All meals/snacks with the same requirements are grouped together. On each page, there would be 7 breakfast menus, 14 lunch/dinner menus, and 21 snack ideas.
All menus with the same requirements should be grouped together. One page would have breakfast ideas. There would be 2-3 pages with lunch and dinner ideas. Then there would be 2-3 pages of snack ideas.
Keep it like it is now, with a breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon (pm) snack, dinner and evening (eve) snack for each day.
6. How would you prefer to make a substitution? (Choose one.)?
Write in ONLY the food you are substituting.
Write in the whole meal (like you do now).
7. How many sections should there be? (Choose one.)
One for each of the types of menus. For example, there would be a section for healthy meals, one for seasonal meals, one for family favorites, one for children's favorites, etc.
All of the menus should be listed together as they are now.
8. How many days of menus should there be? (Choose one.)
30 days
60 days
90 days
120 days
9. How many times should each main dish (such as spaghetti with meat sauce) be on the menu? (Choose one.)
One time so there is a greater variety of main dishes to choose from
More than once.
Many times.
10. Which recipes should we KEEP in the Pre-Planned Menus? (Click on "Keep" if you think we should keep that recipe. Click on "Delete" if you think we should get rid of that recipe.)
Keep or Delete? Tropical Juice Blend
Keep or Delete? Cheese Oven Omelet
Keep or Delete? Grape Juice Delite
Keep or Delete? Spaghetti Pie
Keep or Delete? Coffee Cake
Keep or Delete? Banana Whip
Keep or Delete? Sweetened Carrots
Keep or Delete? Cinnamon Rolls
Keep or Delete? Fruit Salad with Dressing
Keep or Delete? BBQ Cups
Keep or Delete? Ambrosia
Keep or Delete? Apple Toast
Keep or Delete? Chocolate Chip Muffins
Keep or Delete? Cinnamon Bread
Keep or Delete? Crispix Cinnamon Apple Crunch
Keep or Delete? Bran Muffins
Keep or Delete? Strawberries Thru a Straw
Keep or Delete? Trail Mix
Keep or Delete? Spicy Oyster Crackers
Keep or Delete? Yogurt Cups
Keep or Delete? Carrot-Raisin Salad
Keep or Delete? Fruit Shake
Keep or Delete? Applesauce Muffin
Keep or Delete? Apple Turnover
Keep or Delete? Taco Casserole
Keep or Delete? Glazed Cinnamon Loaf
Keep or Delete? Cornbread
Keep or Delete? Tater Tot Casserole
Keep or Delete? Hot Chicken Salad
Keep or Delete? Banana Nut Bread
11. Recipes should be organized: (Choose one.)
In the order they are used on the pre-planned menus, like they are now.
By meal component. Example, Strawberries Thru a Straw would be in the fruit/vegetable section.
In alphabetical order.
12. How many servings should each recipe make? (Choose one.)
4-8 servings
8-12 servings
12-16 servings
16-20 servings
20 or more servings
13. Each recipe should have serving sizes for:(Choose one.)
All age groups, like in the newsletter
1-2 year olds ONLY
3-5 year olds ONLY
6-12 year olds ONLY
14. What do you like about the pre-planned menus? (choose all that apply)
I use the printed menu as a shopping list.
I only have to write a number on my menu instead of writing in foods.
I use them as an example of what to feed my day care children.
I use them when I need new meal ideas.
I like the recipes.
I don't use the pre-planned menus.
