NutriPlanner Zest Mise-en-place : Tutorial

The menu recipes tab action buttons.

On the recipes tab there are several action buttons that enable you to take a variety of actions with the menu. This topic introduces those actions but more detail will be available in the on-line help for the menu details page.

Note that, if you open a recipe from the Set cookbook, some of these buttons will not be present, such as the Delete and Save buttons.

Number of Covers

In addition to the buttons, there is also a box to enter the number of covers. This box is repeated on the Cost Analysis tab. Its purpose is crucial to the correct calculation of two areas:

1. Nutritional evaluation based on "Portion average" method. Along with the Reqd Portions values, the Number of Covers allows the system to calculate an average consumption on which to base the nutritional evaluation.
2. The Cost per Person calculation on the Cost Analysis tab relies on the Number of Covers value to calculate the per-person cost from the total cost of preparing the meals in the Reqd Portions quantities.

Changing the value on either the Recipes tab or the Cost Analysis tab will immediately be reflected on the other tab.

Save button

Whenever you make any change to any of the information within the boxes on any of the menu sections, this button will turn red, as shown. Also, a red banner will appear across the top of the page. These remind you that you MUST click Save if you want to make the changes you have made permanent. Until you do so, the changes are only present on the screen and have not been stored. If you move to another page without clicking Save, those changes will be lost and the menu's details will revert to their original values.

New button

Clicking this button will begin the process of entering a new menu. If you have several menus to enter this is a shortcut to avoid having to go back to the main menus page every time.
WARNING: If you have any unsaved changes when you click the New button, they will be lost.

Delete button

When you click this button you are asked to confirm that you want to delete the menu. If you click OK then the system will delete it.
WARNING: There is no "undelete" option; once it has been deleted, it is gone.

Duplicate button

The duplicate action will take a copy of the current menu and place it into your cookbook's "default" folder. To help you identify it, the text "(DUP)" is added to the menu's title.

This feature is useful in two main ways:

• If you have two or more menus to enter that are very similar where there is, perhaps, only one or two recipes difference, or perhaps you want to create a menu cycle when the same menu is repeated on two or more dates, you can enter the first menu, duplicate it, rename and redate it and replace any different recipes. Now you have two menus with very little extra effort.
• If you see a menu from the Set cookbook that you like but you would like to alter it to include your own recipes perhaps, you can duplicate the Set menu into your own cookbook, whereupon it is yours to do with as you please.

Print button

As its name suggest, this button prepares the menu's details in a format suitable for printing.

The printable page has options on it to hide or show the evaluation, the recipe photos and the recipe prices before actually committing the menu to the printer.