Group home and ICF-IID menus

Four-week menus for group homes and intermediate care facilities, written quarterly with nutritional analysis, recipes and editable daily cook's menus. Pediatric and custom versions available.

  • Cycle Four weeks
  • New menus Quarterly, by season
  • Versions Standard, custom and pediatric
  • Delivery Online through MenuCentral™, or on paper
  • Pricing Quoted per home
  • Available Nationwide

A group home menu has to work for a small house staff cooking for a few residents with very different needs. Ours are written quarterly by registered dietitians, follow the California Department of Developmental Services diet manual guidelines, and come with recipes the house staff can cook from and daily cook's menus they can edit.

Custom menus are available for the specific needs of your home, and a pediatric version is available for homes serving children.

Dietitian-written four-week menus for ICF/DD homes, on paper or on a tablet with MenuCentral™. Change a meal when you need to, and your own RD or ours signs off on it.

  • Simple amounts. The amounts are whole numbers: 2 eggs, not 1½.
  • Short ingredient lists. On our current ICF/DD menu, 76% of the 177 recipes use five ingredients or fewer, and 95% use seven or fewer. Salt, pepper, dried herbs, spices, vanilla, water and cooking spray aren't counted.
  • Bought at the grocery store. No #10 cans or food-service packs, only sizes a regular market carries, scaled to your census.
  • New menus every season. A new four-week menu each quarter, written for the season and drawn from more than 1,900 standardized recipes.
  • Change it, then get it approved. Swap in a resident's favorite or what's in season. Your in-house RD signs off on the change, or our dietitians do.
  • Built around your residents. Set your census, diet orders, textures and snack times, and the recipes and portions follow. Plan around each person's culture and food habits, as Title 22 asks.
  • Every diet on one page. The cook's menu lines up each diet and texture side by side, from regular and consistent carbohydrate to pureed. One sheet on the counter instead of a binder.
  • Ready when the surveyor asks. Dated menus to post, as-served copies for your files and the RD's approval on every cycle.
  • Room for family favorites. A family can send in a loved one's favorite recipe. A dietitian reviews it, and it joins the house menu like any other dish.
  • On a tablet, it does more. Cook Today shows house staff just today's meals, each one tap from its recipe, already sized for the home.
Daily cook's menu for a sample ICF/DD home, week 1 Tuesday, with columns for regular, small and large portions, soft and bite-sized, minced and moist, pureed, renal, consistent carbohydrate and plant-based diets.
The daily cook's menu: each diet and texture side by side, one row per item.
MenuCentral's Cook Today screen on a tablet for a sample ICF/DD home, listing Saturday's breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime snack as buttons with portions, such as Beef Tips with Mushrooms (1/2 c).
Cook Today on a kitchen tablet: today's meals for a six-resident home, each one tap from its recipe.
The top of a recipe card for Pork Chop with Herb Sauce, 6 servings, with amounts such as 3 Tbsp oil and 1 pinch pepper, and the first steps of the method.
A recipe card sized for the home, with whole-number amounts. The rest of the card carries the HACCP steps, IDDSI preparation and nutrition per portion.

Sample screens from our demonstration menus.

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What is included

  • Regular, heart-healthy and consistent-carbohydrate diets
  • Therapeutic diets such as renal, no added salt, 2 g sodium, gluten-free and GERD, plus custom diets for nearly any age, medical condition or disease state
  • Standard Prader-Willi, PKU and ketogenic menus at no extra charge, with customized versions on request
  • Texture-modified diets by IDDSI level
  • A range of portion sizes
  • Holiday menus
  • Sack lunches for residents who are out at day programs or work
  • Recipes with preparation instructions and HACCP guidance
  • Editable daily cook's menus
  • An order guide in grocery-store sizes, scaled to your census
  • A nutritional analysis with each quarter's menus

How you receive it

Menus are available online through MenuCentral™, our online menu platform, which puts the current cycle, recipes and daily cook's menus in one place for your kitchen. We can also provide traditional paper menus, shipped directly to your facility for an additional cost.

IDDSI

Every menu we write is fully compliant with the IDDSI Framework 2.2. Texture-modified diets are written and labelled by IDDSI level, with drinks by IDDSI thickness level, so the diet order, the menu, the recipe and the tray card all use the same language. More about our IDDSI menus.

Questions

Do you sell menus to homes outside California?

Yes. Our menus are available to facilities nationwide. The group home menu is written to follow the California Department of Developmental Services diet manual guidelines; tell us your state in your request.

Is there a menu for children?

Yes. A pediatric version of the group home menu is available.

Can the menu be written for our home?

Yes. Custom menus are available for the specific needs of your home.

Can the menu cover our residents' special diets?

Yes. Because the menu is customizable, we can account for nearly any therapeutic diet, for nearly any age, medical condition or disease state. Our standard Prader-Willi, PKU and ketogenic menus come at no extra charge. For a menu customized to a resident's condition, list the diet orders in your request or contact us.

How is the menu priced?

Menus are quoted per home, based on the number of residents and the diets you need. Send the request below and we will come back with a quote.

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