Recipes

Recipes bring together a dish’s ingredients, the portions it yields and its cost per portion. You then choose them when putting together each Meal Menu. They are in the Recipes menu.

Create and edit recipes

When you create a recipe you enter at least the Name (unique), the Meal type, a Category, the Yield (portions) and at least one ingredient. Optionally you add a description, preparation and cooking time, instructions, tags and an image. The Active switch marks whether the recipe is in use.

Caution

The category must be valid for the chosen meal type (see the table); otherwise, the system rejects the save.

Categories by meal type

Meal type	Valid categories
Breakfast	Main dish, Drink, Fruit
Lunch	Soup, Protein, Carbohydrate, Salad, Drink, Dessert
Dinner	Main dish, Protein, Side dish, Drink, Dessert
Snack	Snack, Drink
Dessert	Dessert

Ingredients and portions

For each ingredient you record the Quantity, the Unit, an optional Waste (%) (0 to 100, for peels or cooking) and notes. The yield indicates how many portions the recipe produces; it must be at least 1.

Use the ingredient’s unit

The cost is calculated as quantity × the ingredient’s price per unit, without converting units. If rice has a price per kilogram, enter the recipe quantity in kilograms (0.3 KG), not in grams (300 G); otherwise the cost will come out multiplied.

Cost per portion

The list’s Cost / portion adds up, for each ingredient, quantity × price per unit × (1 + waste), and divides it by the portions. It is recalculated when you change the recipe’s ingredients or yield.

Note

If you change the price of an ingredient, the cost of the recipes that use it isn’t updated automatically: open and save the recipe to recalculate it.