Enable Menu Management

Menu Features

• Menu Components: choose Dietary needs only (no ingredient tracking) or Dietary needs and ingredients (track recipe ingredients for scaling and shopping lists).
• Meal Components: choose how your menus are structured (see the three modes below).
• Enable automatic meal/product substitutions: when set to Yes, clients whose dietary needs match a substitution rule are automatically moved to a substitution meal. See  Dietary Substitutions⁠  .

The three Meal Components modes

Dietary needs assigned directly to day — the simplest option. You assign dietary needs straight to each calendar day; there are no meals or dishes. Available only when the recurring schedule is turned off.
Meals assigned to day, dietary needs and ingredients assigned to meals — you assign a meal to each product on a day, and attach dietary needs and ingredients to the meal.
Meals with dishes, dietary needs and ingredients assigned to dishes — meals are built from individual dishes, and dietary needs and ingredients are attached to the dish. The most detailed option.

Calendar Setup

• Enable recurring meal schedule — turn this on to repeat a fixed rotation (for example, a 10-week cycle).
• Weeks in schedule (1–26) — appears only when the recurring schedule is on; sets how many weeks the rotation repeats over.
• Calendar week length — choose a 5-day week (Mon–Fri) or a 7-day week (Sun–Sat) .
• Product Calendaring — the first time, click Initialize meal calendar . Afterward, use Product Calendaring Setup to choose which products appear on the calendar and, if you use substitutions, to designate each product's substitution meal.