We audit your cycle menu against Canada's Food Guide (2007), correct what fails, and hand you the signed approval letter your inspection binder needs.
Willowbrook Supportive Living · 4-week cycle menu
The cycle menu must be reviewed and approved against Canada's Food Guide (2007) before it's served.
Signed by an RD or CSNM food & nutrition managerRD menu approval is required regardless of the home's size. There is no small-facility exemption.
Registered Dietitian approval requiredAccommodation Standards inspectors verify your signed approval on-site. Missing paperwork is a citation.
Keep the certificate in your inspection binderWhen an inspector opens your binder, they're looking for one specific thing: a registered dietitian's approval of your current cycle menu. If it isn't there, or it's dated to a menu you no longer serve, it goes on the report.
You don't need a nutrition seminar. You need the document, correct and signed, filed where the inspector expects it. That's the entire job, and it's the only thing we do.
Every option ends the same way: a signed RD approval letter and a compliance matrix, ready to drop into your inspection binder.
Every certification includes a food-group coverage matrix mapped across your cycle. Green means the day meets the guide; red is a gap we flag and correct before we sign.
Sample below shows Week 1 of a 4-week cycle, before corrections.
| Food group | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetables & Fruit | Met | Met | Met | Short | Met |
| Grain Products | Met | Met | Met | Met | Met |
| Milk & Alternatives | Met | Short | Met | Met | Short |
| Meat & Alternatives | Met | Met | Met | Met | Met |
| Fluids & hydration | Met | Met | Review | Met | Met |
No meetings, no software to learn. Send what you have and we handle the rest.
Email your current cycle menu in any format: spreadsheet, PDF, or a photo of the printout on the wall.
A registered dietitian maps it to CFG-2007, flags every gap, and rewrites the days that fall short.
You receive the corrected menu, the compliance matrix, and a signed RD approval letter, ready to file.
Your approval letter is signed by a dietitian in good standing with the College of Dietitians of Alberta (CDA), the regulatory body that licenses RDs in this province. That's the signature the standards require and the one inspectors recognize.
We don't outsource the review. The same RD who audits your menu is the one whose name and registration number go on the letter in your binder.
Small Alberta facilities that needed the signed letter filed and the citation risk gone.
We emailed a photo of the menu taped to the kitchen wall on a Monday. The signed letter was in our binder in four days. It passed our ASTRAL inspection without a single question.
Our last inspection flagged the menu approval as missing. I did not want that on the report twice. They found the two gaps, corrected them, and signed off before our re-check date.
I am not a dietitian and I do not have time to become one. They handled the whole thing over email and told me exactly which page went in the binder. Worth every dollar at inspection time.
Short reads on what the standards require and how inspections actually work.
The exact wording, what an inspector reads it to mean, and what has to be in your binder.
Read the breakdown Which guide appliesWhy the older edition is still the benchmark inspectors check, and when that matters.
Read the breakdown At inspectionWhat they ask for, where they look, and the paperwork that turns the item into a pass.
Read the breakdown Who can signThe difference between the two standards and why one signature can cover both.
Read the breakdownBook a free 15-minute compliance check and we'll tell you exactly where your current menu stands against Standards 13(2) and 12(3), before you pay anything.
One-week gap snapshot · no charge · no menu leaves Alberta hands.