1. Module 5: Menu Management on a Budget
Cooking Matters EXTRA for Center-Based
Child Care Professionals
Module 5: Menu Management on a Budget

2. Why Is Making a Food Budget Important?

3. The Importance of Menu Planning
Menu planning allows you to:
Stick to your budget
Create a shopping list
Use up foods you have on hand
Determine which ingredients you can buy in bulk or stretch across several meals

4. Other Ways to Stay Within Your Budget
Choose recipes with similar ingredients
Adjust recipes to use ingredients in season, on sale, or on hand
Make a shopping list
Compare prices
Shop smart
Other ideas?

5. Healthy Classroom Celebrations
Policies in your center?
Sweets or no sweets?
Family members or no family members?
Food or no food?
Photos or no photos?
Every birthday or once a month?

6. Healthy Classroom Celebrations
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7. Healthy Classroom Celebrations
Martha’s Table, Washington, DC

8. Questions?
Cooking Matters EXTRA for Center-Based Child Care Professionals was developed with support from the Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation