- Adding a Personal Menu Item to a Diet Intervention
- When a Diet Intervention with Personal Menu Item is Assigned to a Resident/Patient
Adding a Personal Menu Item to a Diet Intervention
The instructions below assume a diet intervention exists in your account to add a personal menu item to (if not, see Creating a Diet Intervention: First Steps). To add a personal menu item to a diet intervention:
- Select Tools & Setup > Diet Orders. The Diet Order Setting screen appears.
- Select the Interventions tab. The Interventions screen appears, listing existing interventions.
- Click the name of the intervention to edit.
- Scroll down to the Customizations List section and click the Add New button and select Personal Item.
- Select the Food & Non-Food Items option and use its associated filters as needed:
- Food Type - filter by recipes, prepared foods, and non-food items.
- Recipe Boxes (available only if Recipe is selected from Food type) - filter by a recipe box label, such as My Recipes.
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Categories - filter by food categories (if searching for prepared foods) and recipe categories (if searching for recipes). Note that if searching for both recipes and prepared foods, food categories are listed first in the drop-down, followed by recipe categories.
- Tags - filter by tags applied to recipes and prepared foods.
- Business Lines (exists if your MealSuite account is associated with more than one business line)
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My Corporation Items Only (for future use)
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As another search option, the Vendor Products option is a means to select a prepared food associated with a vendor product. From the vendor products that are returned from the search results, you then select one, which in turns adds the prepared food item the vendor product is linked with (i.e., vendor product is verified for the prepared food item). In other words, the prepared food item the vendor product is linked with is added, and not the vendor product itself.
- In the Search field, enter the description or ID of the item or product you are searching for and click Go.
- Note 1: If results are not being returned, click here for search tips.
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Note 2: The search results are limited to 100. If you do not find the search results suitable, then change the above settings as needed, and rerun the search.
- If searching for a vendor product, note the following:
- A blue + indicates the vendor product is linked to a food item.
- A red + indicates the vendor product is not linked to a food item, and therefore cannot be selected.
- By clicking the eye icon (
) of an item, a separate window appears with the following tabs:
- Details - displays the recipe details.
- Nutrition Facts - displays the Nutrition Facts label.
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Where used (screenshot below) - displays the following sections:
- Recipes - lists any recipes the item is assigned to as an ingredient (i.e., a recipe can be an ingredient itself in a recipe), and lists any recipes the item is assigned to as a therapeutic substitute (i.e., an extended recipe).
- Menus - lists the menus the item is assigned to.
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Personal Menus - lists the people profiles who have the recipe added as a personal menu item to their personal menu.
Note: The Recipes section is displayed first; therefore if you do not see the Menus and Personal Menus sections, then you can either collapse the Recipes section (by clicking the Recipes header bar) or scroll down the window to see the Menus and Personal Menus sections. Also, the Menus and Personal Menus sections will need to be expanded by clicking their respective header bars.
- For an item you want to add, click its + icon. You can repeat the above steps to add other items. Each time an item is added, the Personal Item to Add section refreshes with the added item.
- Enter or select the following:
- Day - select the days to serve the item.
- Meal - select the meal periods and snack times to serve the item.
- Menu Category - select the menu category to apply the item (e.g., if Cheerios is the item, then select the Cereal category). Note that the categories that are available depend on the meal and snack times that are selected.
- Serving Size - adjust the default serving size if needed.
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In Addition to Menu Items or Instead of Menu Items options (screenshot below) - If the In Addition to Menu Items option is selected, then the personal menu item is listed as an additional item alongside the standard menu item(s) on the personal menu. If the Instead of Menu Items option is selected, then the personal menu item replaces the standard menu item(s) on the personal menu.
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Always order (screenshot below) - this option is available if the person’s service type for any meal period (breakfast, lunch, dinner) is set to advanced ordering or table select. If the Always order option is selected, then the system will always order the personal menu item rather than have it as an option.
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Item Note - you have option of adding a note (e.g., “milk on the side”), which will be printed on the service report for production staff.
- Click Add to close the window and add the item(s).
Note: If the personal menu item conflicts with an existing Do Not Serve customization in the diet intervention, then the system prevents the personal menu item from being created, and a message appears indicating such (e.g., below).
- If the item has been extended with therapeutic substitutes, it displays with the (Extended Recipe) note, and if an item has not been extended, it displays with the (Extensions Not Complete) note (screenshot below). Clicking the note opens the extension grid of the item in a separate browser tab. For details on how the system treats an extended or non-extended item in a diet intervention, see When a Diet Intervention with Personal Item is Assigned to a Person below.
When a Diet Intervention with Personal Menu Item is Assigned to a Resident/Patient
When a diet intervention with a personal menu item is assigned to a resident/patient, then the following occurs:
- If the personal menu item is extended with therapeutic substitutes, then the item added to the personal menu is taken from the recipe extension grid of the personal menu item. For example, assume the intervention consists of the High Protein Muffin as a personal menu item, and that the High Protein Muffin is extended with the Pureed High Protein Muffin for the regular diet type/pureed texture type. If the intervention is assigned to a resident with a diet order of regular diet type/pureed texture type, then the Pureed High Protein Muffin is added to their personal menu and not the High Protein Muffin.
- If the diet type/texture type extension cell of a personal menu item is “Do not serve”, or is empty (i.e., still set as “Set Extension”), then the system assumes the personal menu item is not appropriate, and as such will not add the personal menu item to their personal menu.