Comments on: Groups & Recipe Manager

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:48:54 +0000

Here’s a tip for entering portions of recipes. I put the yield (how many servings the recipe makes) in the recipe title, so that it’s easy to remember later, and my food diary is easier to interpret. So I might have “Tuna Casserole (8 servings, 1/2 c ea)” or “Homemade Pesto (3/4 c)”. Then if I ate 1 tbsp of the pesto, I know I need to enter 1/24 in the portion field when adding it to my diary (since there are 24 tablespoons in 3/4 cup).

It would be neat if the Group & Recipe Manager could somehow help with storing this info, but I guess that’s more of a recipe-specific feature that wouldn’t necessarily make sense if you use it for groups of foods frequently eaten together.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:01:40 +0000

If you enter the full recipe (i.e. in the case 4 leeks etc), you can then select a serving or portion size of ’1/10′ or ’0.1′ when you add the recipe to your diary and the software will automatically adjust the quantities for your serving size.

By: Ron Boyd

Ron Boyd — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:08:21 +0000

I am trying the trial version and was having trouble setting up a recipe for a soup. The recipe has a lot of ingredients and makes about 10 servings. For example I used 4 leeks; do I enter the full recipe amounts or do I only enter 1/10th of item.

Thanks

By: admin

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:38:30 +0000

Hi Steve,

Version 3.2.3 has now been released and both suggestions have been implemented. You will now see a nutritional breakdown for the group in the manager and any groups added to the diary with this version (or later) are now fully collapsable.

Thanks again for the suggestions!

By: Steve Nunez

Steve Nunez — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:36:12 +0000

Here’s another suggestion:

Display the macronutrient ‘wheel’ while creating recipes. A good example use case for this happened the other night while creating a recipe that had a sauce.

Adding a few grams of butter threw the ratio way off, but changing to cornflour brought things closer to the right alignment. A wheel would be an easy way to visualize the ratios as you create the recipe.

You could extend the idea to help suggest ratios that would bring the overall daily ratios back into balance, if you got off on one meal or the other.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:46:58 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion Steve. This is currently being worked on, as you suggest it will work in a similar way to the meals, an icon will let you hide or reveal all the items in the meal or recipe. The update should be available soon!

By: Steve Nunez

Steve Nunez — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:32:02 +0000

It would be nice if this would insert the group name in the food diary rather than the individual items. With anything moderately complicated the food diary becomes very long.

Perhaps a expansion triangle, similar to the meal breakdown would allow you to expand the recipe and see it’s parts.