How to create meal recipes

Recipes are the secret to a stress-free shopping list. Tell your site what goes into each meal, and the Grocery List report adds up exactly how much of every ingredient the kitchen needs for the week's orders. No more guessing how many pounds of chicken to buy.

Before you start

Recipes use your Ingredients and Portions, both under Meals. Add any ingredient or portion size you need first.

Creating a recipe

1. Go to Meals > Recipes and create a new one with a name. Click Add & Edit.
2. Set the Category, Description and Instructions as you like, and the Yield Servings and Yield Portion the recipe makes.
3. Under Single Ingredients, click Add Ingredient, pick the ingredient and the portion, and set the amount. Repeat for each.
4. Under Sub Recipes, click Add Sub Recipe to nest another recipe, such as a sauce. Enable sub-recipes with the Sub-Recipes toggle on the Features page.
5. Click Update.

Linking it to a meal

Open the meal and, under Base Meal Recipe, select the recipe in Recipe. Set the Recipe Yield Multiplier to the number of recipe servings one meal uses. Recipe Links on the recipe page lists every meal that uses it.

Keywords: prep list, ingredient totals

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