NutriPlanner Zest Mise-en-place : Tutorial

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Menu tools.

In the previous topics we have discussed, in detail, how menus are entered into the system and stored in your cookbook. Each of the sections on the menu details page has been covered.

There are several very useful tools that enable you to manipulate your menus in various ways, to automate occasional, tedious tasks and to allow you to process many menus at once to produce useful results.

These tools, which are described in subsequent topics, are:

• Period evaluation - carry out a nutritional evaluation across multiple menus dated over a period of time.
• Food category check - compare your menus against the food category standards that you have set up and assigned to your recipes.
• Weekly cycle - generate a printout that shows your menus over a week. This would be suitable for printing for display on a cafeteria wall, for example.
• Change menu dates - alter the dates on a range of menus in a single operation.
• Menu builder - an easy way to select recipes and insert them into a menu

The first three of these tools are accessible via options on the Menus main menu, the fourth is an option on the main menus selection page. The final tool is actually an option on two of the Recipe Tools pages, the Bulk Price Change and the Compare Nutrition.

The following topics expand on each of these tools.