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Management Healthy Environments Lesson 7 Apply Menu Audit Program Tool	WWW.VIRTUALLABSCHOOL.ORG ACTIVITY ID: 17346 Name Certifier Date
One strategy to ensure that children and youth are not exposed to foods that could potentially be harmful to them is to conduct a program audit of menus for children with allergies and dietary restrictions. Review your files to ascertain all allergies that exist in your program. Check classroom practices on how the food issues are being handled. Then answer the following questions. Were the children given substitutions? Yes No Were the substitutions offered in a way for the children to feel included rather than excluded throughout the process? Yes No Were classroom staff and meal preparation staff informed of the substitutions? Yes No Was confidentiality maintained? Yes No How could the system be improved?

Menu Audit

Program Tool

WWW.VIRTUALLABSCHOOL.ORG

ACTIVITY ID: 17346

Name

Certifier

Date

One strategy to ensure that children and youth are not exposed to foods that could potentially be harmful to them is to conduct a program audit of menus for children with allergies and dietary restrictions. Review your files to ascertain all allergies that exist in your program. Check classroom practices on how the food issues are being handled. Then answer the following questions.

Were the children given substitutions?
Yes
No
Were the substitutions offered in a way for the children to feel included rather than excluded throughout the process?
Yes
No
Were classroom staff and meal preparation staff informed of the substitutions?
Yes
No
Was confidentiality maintained?
Yes
No

How could the system be improved?