SOP Series: Childcare Nutrition and Food Service Checklist Bundle

SOP Series: Childcare Nutrition & Food Service Checklist Bundle

(10 fully editable Canva Pro templates for safe, stress-free mealtimes)

From CACFP portions to bottle-warming safety, food service in early childhood is loaded with rules. This download hands you ten ready-made, customizable checklists that turn those regulations into simple, repeatable routines. Each template is already laid out in Canva with check boxes and is ready for you to drop in your logo, adjust any state-specific language, and hand the lists to staff today.

What’s Inside

1.    Meal Prep & CACFP Portion Checklist: Age-appropriate serving sizes, creditable food groups, and substitution tracking for reimbursements.

2.    Kitchen Sanitation Routine: Food-handler hygiene, three-step surface disinfection, fridge temps, and chemical‐storage rules.

3.    Menu Posting & Parent Communication: Weekly menu board, family email, allergen highlights, and three-year archive.

4.    Infant Bottle Handling:            Label check, warming method, one-hour discard rule, and feeding log.

5.    Allergen-Safe Kitchen Zones: Color-coded utensils, top-shelf storage, and dedicated wipe-down procedure.

6.    Refrigerator & Freezer Deep-Clean Schedule: Monthly scrub of shelves, gaskets, drip pans, plus temperature-probe accuracy test.

7.    Farm-to-Table & Local-Produce Tracker Checklist: Records farmer name, delivery date, pounds, and dishes featured—for grants and newsletters.

8.    Water Pitcher Sanitizing Log (Classrooms): Twice-daily rinse, refill, bleach dip, and upside-down air-dry.

9.    Food-Allergy Emergency Drill: Quarterly mock reaction timing epi-pen retrieval, 911 call, and debrief notes.

10. Leftover / Share-Table Monitoring Sheet Checklist: What’s placed, kept, or tossed to comply with health-department re-service rules