- About Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods and Recipes to a Likes & Dislikes Group
- Opening a Likes & Dislikes Group and Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods, Recipes
- Opening a Recipe and Adding It to a Likes & Dislikes Group
About Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods and Recipes to a Likes & Dislikes Group
The means to add an ingredient, prepared food or recipe to a Likes & Dislikes Group is by opening the Likes & Dislikes group and adding the items; see Opening a Likes & Dislikes Group and Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods, Recipes below.
For a recipe, there is also the option of adding it to a Likes & Dislikes Group from the recipe itself; see Opening a Recipe and Adding It to a Likes & Dislikes Group below.
Opening a Likes & Dislikes Group and Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods, Recipes
To add ingredients, prepared foods or recipes to a Likes & Dislikes Group, complete the following steps:
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Search for and open the desired Likes & Dislikes Group. The slide-out panel appears, listing any existing items in the bottom section.
- Click the Add Foods button. The Add Food to [Like & Dislike group] pop-up appears.
- Select the Food option and use its associated filters as needed:
- Food Type - filter by foods (i.e., ingredients), prepared foods, recipes.
- Recipe Box - (available only if Recipe is selected from Food Type) - filter by a recipe box label, such as My Recipes.
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Categories - filter by food categories (if searching for prepared foods) and recipe categories (if searching for recipes). Note that if searching for both recipes and prepared foods, food categories are listed first in the drop-down, followed by recipe categories.
- Tags - filter by tags applied to recipes and prepared foods.
- Business Lines (exists if your MealSuite account is associated with more than one business line)
- My Corporation Items Only (for future use)
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Display Served Items Only (for future use)
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As another search option, the Vendor Products option is a means to select a food item associated with a vendor product. From the vendor products that are returned from the search results, you then select one, which in turns adds the food item the vendor product is linked with (i.e., vendor product is verified for the food item). In other words, the food item the vendor product is linked with is added, and not the vendor product itself.
- In the Search field, enter the description or ID of the item or product you are searching for and click Go. The search results are returned.
- If an item is an ingredient, then by clicking the eye icon (
) of the item, a separate window appears with the following tabs:
- Details - displays the details and the Nutrition Facts label of the food item.
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Where used (screenshot below) - lists the recipes the food item is assigned to as an ingredient.
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Procurement - displays the verified vendor products the food item is linked to.
- If an item is a prepared food, then by clicking the eye icon (
) of the item, a separate window appears with the following tabs:
- Details - displays the details and the Nutrition Facts label of the prepared food.
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Where used (screenshot below) - displays the following sections:
- Recipes - lists the recipes the prepared food is assigned to as an ingredient, and lists any recipes the prepared food is assigned to as a therapeutic substitute (i.e., an extended recipe).
- Menus - lists the menus the prepared food is assigned to.
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Personal Menus - lists the people profiles who have the prepared food item added as a personal item to their personal menu.
Note: The Recipes section is displayed first; therefore if you do not see the Menus and Personal Menus sections, then you can either collapse the Recipes section (by clicking the Recipes header bar) or scroll down the window to see the Menus and Personal Menus sections. Also, the Menus and Personal Menus sections will need to be expanded by clicking their respective header bars.
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Procurement - displays the verified vendor products the prepared food is linked to.
- If an item is a recipe, then by clicking the eye icon (
) of the item, a separate window appears with the following tabs:
- Details - displays the recipe details.
- Nutrition Facts - displays the Nutrition Facts label.
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Where used (screenshot below) - displays the following sections:
- Recipes - lists any recipes the item is assigned to as an ingredient (i.e., a recipe can be an ingredient itself in a recipe), and lists any recipes the item is assigned to as a therapeutic substitute (i.e., an extended recipe).
- Menus - lists the menus the recipe is assigned to.
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Personal Menus - lists the people profiles who have the recipe added as a personal item to their personal menu.
Note: The Recipes section is displayed first; therefore if you do not see the Menus and Personal Menus sections, then you can either collapse the Recipes section (by clicking the Recipes header bar) or scroll down the window to see the Menus and Personal Menus sections. Also, the Menus and Personal Menus sections will need to be expanded by clicking their respective header bars.
- For an item that you want to add, click its + icon. You can repeat the above steps to add other items. Each time an item is added, the Food to Add section refreshes with the added item.
- When ready, click the Add button to add the items to the Likes & Dislikes group. The pop-up closes and the newly-added items appear in the Likes & Dislikes slide-out panel. Note that if you added a food item (i.e., ingredient), then all the recipes that that ingredient is part of are included in the Likes & Dislikes Group.
- Close the slide-out panel.
Opening a Recipe and Adding It to a Likes & Dislikes Group
For a recipe, a means to add it to a Likes & Dislikes group is from the recipe itself. To do so:
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Open the recipe and expand the Nutritional Content section.
- Click the + icon adjacent to the Likes & Dislikes title. A drop-down field appears with an Add link.
- From the drop-down field, select the Likes & Dislikes group to which you want to add the recipe. You can add more than one group.
- Click Add link below the drop-down field. The Likes & Dislikes group(s) that you added the recipe to are listed. Note that a recipe manually added to a Likes & Dislikes group has a solid red remove icon (
).
If the recipe was manually removed from a Likes & Dislikes group that it had been automatically added to because of one of its ingredients, it appears with a strikethrough line and the green add icon (),
To re-add the recipe to the Likes & Dislikes group, click the green add icon (). The strikethrough line disappears to indicate the recipe has been re-added to the Likes & Dislikes group.