Recipe Cookbook Report (Menus) - Prints Recipes from a Menu

• About the Recipe Cookbook Report
  • How to Get a Recipe Included in the Report
• Selecting Menu and its Settings to Determine Items to be in the Report
• Report Settings: Recipe Cookbook Report
  • Entering the Yield Servings (Optional)
  • Sorting the Report and Consolidating Recipes to not Print Multiple Times
  • Options to Include
• Display of Recipes and Prepared Foods as Ingredients
• Display of Extended items
• System Calculation for Scaling Ingredients
• FAQs:
  • Why is a recipe not included in my Recipe Cookbook report?
  • I selected the Photo option, but photos are not printing on my Recipe Cookbook report?
  • I receive a message that the cookbook size is too large for a single file and cannot be generated? 

About the Recipe Cookbook Report

The Recipe Cookbook report prints the recipes used in a selected menu. The Recipe Cookbook report is ideal for binders and kitchen documentation. 

How to Get a Recipe Included in the Report

For a recipe to be included in the Recipe Cookbook Report (Menus), its Include in scaled recipes and cookbooks check box must be selected, as per screenshot below (see Editing a Recipe for more information).

Selecting Menu and its Settings to Determine Items to be in the Report

Via Menus > Reports, select the menu and its associated settings (weeks, choices, diet/texture combinations, menu categories) to determine the items to be included in the report. See the separate article Accessing the Menu Report Settings for more information and specific instructions. 

Entering the Yield Servings (Optional)

In the Yield section, you can enter up to four serving sizes that the report will calculate. For example, 10, 25, 50, 100. 

Sorting the Report and Consolidating Recipes to not Print Multiple Times

From the Report Sort Order field, select how the recipes are to be sorted in the report:

• Alphabetical - recipes are listed alphabetically, and recipes that exist in multiple instances on the menu are consolidated to only print once. 
  
  
• Menu Category - recipes are listed according to the alphabetical order of the menu categories (e.g., beverage, bread, cereal, etc.). If a recipe exists in multiple categories, then that recipe is only listed once in the first menu category appearance. For example, if the cranberry muffin exists in both the bread and dessert menu categories, then the cranberry muffin is listed with the items in the bread menu category because the bread menu category is alphabetically before the dessert menu category.
  
  
• Appearance on Menu - recipes are sorted via their appearance on the menu. With Appearance on Menu selected, a recipe that exist in multiple instances on the menu is able to be printed multiple times. To manage the printing of multiple recipes, the following options are available in the Consolidate By field: 
  • All - when a recipe exists more than once in the menu, the recipe is consolidated to only print once in the report. 
  • Week - when a recipe is offered more than once in a week, the recipe is consolidated to only print once for each week. For example, if the recipe is offered three times in week 1 and twice in week 2, then the recipe will be printed twice in the report (once for week 1 and once for week 2). 
  • Day - when a recipe is offered more than once in a single day/week combination, the recipe is consolidated to only print once for each day/week combination. For example, if the recipe exists three times on week 1 Monday, twice on week 1 Wednesday, and three time on week 2 Monday, then the recipe will be printed three times in the report (once for week 1 Monday, once for week 1 Wednesday, and once for week 2 Monday). 
    
    
    
    
  • If you do not want to consolidate recipes, select the Do not Consolidate option. The recipe will be printed in the report for each instance it exists on the menu. For example, if a recipe exists 20 times in the menu, then it will print 20 times in the report.
    
    To prevent unnecessarily large report file sizes from being generated, if the All consolidate option is not selected, and you are generating the report for four or more weeks and 16 or more diet orders (via the menu report settings), the system will automatically consolidate multiple recipes as if the All option is selected, and will display the following message:
    
    

Options to Include

• Service Day Information - added the service date below the recipe name (e.g., Week 1, Thursday, Breakfast)
  
  
• Financials - includes costing information for the recipe.
  
  
• Nutritional Info - displays up to six nutrients with the recipe. The nutrients to be included are selected via Tools & Setup > Recipe Tools > Key Nutrients tab. See Selecting Key Nutrients for more information. Selecting the Nutritional Info check box also displays any allergies associated with the recipe. 
  
  
• Picture - includes the image for each recipe, assuming a recipe has an image, and assuming the following: only a single week is selected (i.e., multiple weeks are not selected) and no more than 16 diet orders are selected.
  
  If more than one week is selected, or more than 16 diet orders selected, the system will automatically clear the Picture check box so as to prevent the MealSuite system from having to generate the large file size, and will display the following message. 
  
  
  
  
• Table Of Content - generates a table of contents at the beginning of the report.
  
  
• Custom Tags - if any custom tags are created for your MealSuite account and applied to recipes on the menu, then the Custom Tags option generates the custom tags on the report. With this option is selected, the Show By settings appears with the Icon and Display Name options.
  
  
  
  
  The Icon option displays the custom tag icon beside the menu item. The Display Name option displays the custom tag name beside the menu item.

Display of Recipes and Prepared Foods as Ingredients

If a recipe or prepared food is used as an ingredient in a recipe, then that recipe or prepared food displays on the report after the recipe item it is part of.

Display of Extended items

Any extended items for regular/regular items are listed on the report if the respective diet order (i.e., diet type/texture type) of an extended item is assigned to a person. Extended items are listed after the regular/regular item according to the sort order of the diet orders (see Sorting Dlet Orders for more information).

System Calculation for Scaling Ingredients

When a recipe is scaled to new serving amounts (i.e., yield), the amount of each ingredient is adjusted accordingly by the system. The calculation that is used to adjust the amount of an ingredient is as follows:

New yield / original yield x ingredient original amount = new ingredient amount.

For example:

FAQs:

Why is a recipe not included in my Recipe Cookbook report?

For a recipe to be included in the Recipe Cookbook report, its Include in scaled recipes and cookbooks check box must be selected, as per screenshot below (see Editing a Recipe for more information).

I selected the Photo option, but photos are not printing on my Recipe Cookbook report?

If more than one week is selected, or more than 16 diet orders selected, the system will automatically clear the Picture check box so as to prevent the system from having to generate the large file size.

I receive a message that the cookbook size is too large for a single file and cannot be generated? 

If the PDF size is too large when generating the report, the following message now appears:

"Cookbook size is too large for a single PDF file and cannot be generated. Please try generating the report one week at a time"

A PDF size limit exists to prevent long processing times that lead to server crashes and errors.

To allow the report to be generated, select only one week from the Weeks drop-down in the menu report settings.