Meal Counting and Claiming
Overview
School Food Authorities must adhere to the guidelines below to receive reimbursement for school meals and snacks.
- Meal Pattern and Offer versus Serve requirements must be met.
- Accurate point of service meal counts must be collected at the end of the serving line.
- Accurate daily counts must be documented using the “Edit Check Worksheet”, below.
- Some School Food Authorities are required to perform on-site reviews.
For more information, read Counting Meals
Meal Counting Forms
Attachment J – Edit Check Worksheet, Excel | PDF (print)
Attachment J-R – Residential Child Care Institutions Edit Check Worksheet, Word | PDF (print)
Annual Point of Service Waiver, Word | PDF (print)
- Only complete this waiver if your site’s point of service meal count is NOT taken at the end of the serving line.
Attachment I – On-Site Review for School Lunch and Breakfast
- School Food Authorities with 2 or more feeding sites are required to perform an on-site review of each site that offers lunch and 50% of all sites that offer breakfast by February 1 each year.
Attachment I – On-Site Review for Afterschool Snack
- Each site operating an Afterschool Snack Program must be reviewed 2 times per year.
- The first review must be completed during the first 4 weeks the snack program is in operation.
- The second review can be any time during the remainder of the school year.