Registered dietitian · CDA-regulated

Inspection-ready menus, signed by an Alberta RD, in 5 business days.

A flat-fee, done-for-you menu certification for continuing care and supportive living. We audit your cycle menu against Canada's Food Guide, fix what fails, and hand you the signed approval letter your binder needs.

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✓ CDA-registered dietitian ✓ Fixed price, no hourly billing ✓ Signed for the inspection binder

5Business days

$995Flat fee

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Menu Compliance
Certificate

CYCLE #WIN-26
4-WEEK · CC 51+
CFG (2007)

Food-guide compliance · by week

Week	Veg / Fr	Grain	Milk	Meat	Fish/wk
Wk 1	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Wk 2	✓	↻	✓	✓	✓
Wk 3	✓	✓	✓	✓	↻
Wk 4	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

M. Tulk M. Tulk, RD · CDA #7-XXXX

APPROVED
2026·01·14

Built for Alberta's ~250 independent SL & CCH facilities Audited against Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide (2007) Documentation formatted for ASTRAL

Why this lands on your desk

Two standards. One inspector. Zero wiggle room.

Alberta's Accommodation Standards make a registered dietitian's menu approval a licensing condition, not a nice-to-have. If your binder can't produce it, an inspector writes it up.

Standard 13(2)

Supportive living, 11+ residents

Any supportive living accommodation with eleven or more residents must have its cycle menu reviewed and approved against Canada's Food Guide by a registered dietitian or a CSNM food & nutrition manager.

“…an operator of a supportive living accommodation that accommodates 11 or more residents shall ensure that the menu … is reviewed and approved as meeting the nutritional requirements of Canada's Food Guide (2007) by a registered dietitian or a food and nutrition manager registered with the Canadian Society of Nutrition Management.”
Standard 13(2), Supportive Living Accommodation Standards (2024)

Standard 12(3)

Every licensed continuing care home

Continuing care homes need registered-dietitian menu approval regardless of size. No small-facility exemption: if you're licensed, the sign-off is required.

“An operator shall ensure that the menu … is reviewed and approved by a registered dietitian as meeting the nutritional requirements of Canada's Food Guide (2007).”
Standard 12(3), Continuing Care Home Standards (2024)

✓Not sure which applies to you? Supportive living reads to Standard 13(2); a continuing care licence reads to 12(3). Send us your licence class and we'll confirm before you pay anything.

The deliverable

This is what an inspector opens.

Every certification ships with a full CFG-2007 compliance matrix: a plain-English, colour-coded audit of your menu, week by week and food group by food group. Green passes. Red is what we caught. Amber is what we corrected before signing.

CFG-2007 Compliance Audit · Winter Cycle #WIN-26 Profile: Continuing care 51+ · 4-week cycle · v2 corrected

Menu week	Veg & Fruit	Dark-green + orange/day	Grain (½ whole)	Milk & Alt (500 mL/day)	Meat & Alt	Fish ≥2 / week	Sodium target	Status
Week 1	✓ 7.2	✓	✓ 7	✓ 3	✓ 3	✓ 2	✓	Compliant
Week 2	✓ 7.6	✓	↻ fixed	✓ 3	✓ 3	✓ 2	✓	Corrected
Week 3	✓ 7.0	↻ fixed	✓ 7	✓ 3	✓ 3	↻ fixed	✓	Corrected
Week 4	✓ 7.4	✓	✓ 8	✓ 3	✓ 3	✓ 2	✓	Compliant

✓ Meets guide, servings shown ✕ Flagged as submitted ↻ Corrected before sign-off

Your certification binder gets the full matrix, the itemised corrections list, the corrected menu, and the signed RD approval letter. Hover any corrected cell above to see what changed.

How it works

Three steps. You do exactly one of them.

Send your menu

Email your current 3-4 week cycle menu in any format: a spreadsheet, a Word doc, even a photo of the binder page. That's the whole ask on your side.

We audit & correct

Our RD runs the full Food-Guide compliance check, flags every gap, and rewrites the misses while keeping your recipes, budget and kitchen intact.

Signed cert in your binder

You receive the corrected menu, the compliance matrix, and the dated, signed RD approval letter, formatted to drop straight into your inspection binder.

Turnaround

From your inbox to your binder in five days.

Day 0 · Upload

You send the menu

We confirm your standard (13(2) or 12(3)), lock scope, and start the audit same business day.

Day 3 · Draft

Draft audit + corrections

You get the compliance matrix and the corrections list to review. Nothing is signed until you're happy.

Day 5 · Signed

Signed approval letter

Final corrected menu and the dated RD certification land in your inbox, binder-ready.

Inspection this week? Just got cited? Rush 72-hour turnaround jumps you to the front of the queue.

+50% on any tier · signed in 3 days

Pricing

Flat fees. Signed deliverables. No hourly clock.

Prices in CAD. One RD, accountable for the sign-off. Founding-facility rate available for your first cycle.

Most requested Menu Certification

^$995

Have a menu already? We certify it. The fastest path to an inspection-ready binder.

◷ 5 business days

✓ Full CFG-2007 compliance audit matrix
✓ Itemised corrections list
✓ Corrected 3-4 week cycle menu
✓ Signed RD approval letter for the binder
✓ Standard 13(2) / 12(3) confirmation

Certify my menu

Creation + Certification

^$2,950

No compliant menu yet, or starting a new licence? We build one to your kitchen, then certify it.

◷ 10 business days

✓ Everything in Menu Certification
✓ Complete seasonal cycle menu, built new
✓ Costed to your food budget
✓ Fitted to your kitchen & residents' diets
✓ Therapeutic & texture-modified variants

Build & certify

Compliance Subscription

^$295/mo

Stay certified year-round. For operators who never want to think about this again.

◷ Ongoing

✓ Quarterly menu updates + re-certification
✓ Always-current inspection documentation
✓ Priority support at inspection time
✓ Seasonal menu refreshes included
✓ Cancel anytime after first cycle

Rush 72-hour turnaround Add to any tier. Signed certification in 3 days, built for cited facilities and imminent inspections.

+50% of tier price

Who signs your letter

A real, named, CDA-regulated dietitian, not a template.

The approval letter that goes in your binder carries a registered dietitian's name and College of Dietitians of Alberta registration number. That accountability is exactly what Standards 13(2) and 12(3) require, and exactly what an inspector verifies.

✓ Registered with the College of Dietitians of Alberta (CDA), the regulated title an inspector will accept.
✓ Audits written against the exact benchmark the standards name: Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide (2007).
✓ Every deliverable formatted for ASTRAL inspection documentation.

Signed & accountable College of Dietitians of Alberta
Registered Dietitian on record

From the binder owners

Administrators who stopped worrying about the menu page.

“We got cited on the menu in March and I honestly didn't know who was allowed to sign it. Certified in April, and we've had a clean inspection since. The signed letter went straight into the binder.”

Karen M.Administrator · Prairie Rose Supportive Living, Camrose

“Flat fee, no hourly surprises, and they kept our cook's recipes intact. I sent a photo of the binder page on a Monday and had the corrected menu and RD letter back the same week.”

Dwayne P.General Manager · Stettler Prairie View Care Home, Stettler

“For a 22-bed site we can't keep a dietitian on staff, so this is exactly what we needed. The compliance matrix made it obvious what the inspector would look at. Renewed on the subscription without hesitation.”

Sandra L.Owner-Operator · Olds Meadowlark Lodge, Olds

Straight answers

Questions administrators actually ask.

If yours isn't here, email hello@albertamenucertification.ca. A dietitian answers, not a bot.

Do we actually need this?

If you're a supportive living accommodation with 11 or more residents, or any licensed continuing care home, then yes: RD (or CSNM manager) menu approval is a condition of your accommodation standards, and it's checked at inspection.

SL 11+ residents → Standard 13(2) · Any licensed CCH → Standard 12(3)

Who is allowed to sign the approval?

A registered dietitian, or (for supportive living under 13(2)) a person with an equivalent food and nutrition qualification such as a CSNM-certified food & nutrition manager. Every certification we issue is signed by a CDA-registered dietitian, which satisfies both standards, so you never have to check whether the signer "counts."

What about the 2019 food guide? Isn't 2007 out of date?

For general public health, yes, the 2019 guide superseded it. But Alberta's Accommodation Standards still name Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide (2007) as the benchmark for menu approval, so that's what an inspection is measured against. We audit to 2007 to keep you compliant, and flag anywhere a 2019-informed improvement is worth making anyway.

Standard benchmark = CFG 2007 · we note 2019 best-practice as advisory

What happens at an inspection?

An ASTRAL inspector asks to see documented proof that your current cycle menu was reviewed and approved by a qualified professional against the Food Guide. Our signed approval letter plus the compliance matrix is exactly that documentation: dated, named, and formatted to hand over on the spot.

We already got cited. Can you fix it fast?

Yes, this is our hottest lane. Take the Rush 72-hour option on any tier and we turn a signed, corrected, inspection-ready certification in three business days so you can close the finding.

Resources

Plain-English guides to the rules behind the sign-off.

Short reads for administrators who want to understand exactly what the standard says and what an inspector checks.

Standards

Get certified in 5 days.

Send us your current cycle menu and licence class. We'll confirm which standard applies and quote the flat fee before you commit a dollar.

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