New member questions

Thank you, Ossie, that helps a lot.

Astrid

Hi, SkinnyAstrid. Though you can’t currently more the recipes into the Menu Planner, you definitely can use the “View Menu Exchanges” in one of your existing menus to see what you are allotted for snacks in terms of carb/fat/protein etc. exchanges. Then you can compare those to the recipes. The match does not have to be perfect, of course, just approximately.
Also, when you create your menu, you can select a similar recipe from the lists in the Menu Planner as a place-saver, and then just swap in what you actually want.

Hi Daisy Dew,
I pressed the ‘recipes’ tab and found some recipes I liked. Is it possible to move them into the menu planner? I’m not sure what to eat with the new recipe in order to get the proper combinations of carbohydrates, proteins, vegetables,…etc at each meal/snack.

I remember seeing that each recipe had the amount of carbs, proteins, etc. listed at the bottom of them, but I don’t know how much of each thing to have for meals or snacks. Can you help me, please? Thank you.

Hi Ossie . . . would you please explain the procedure to accomplish this?

Hi Klaassen~ 🙂

At the top of (most pages) click on: Apps

For past formulated menus: Click on: Menu History

Choose a ‘Creation Date’ that you have created and click on “View Menu” – that will load your past selected menu items. By going through each of the days you may look for the recipe you desire. Just click on it and it will load the recipe. You may print this information out if you wish.

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If making a new weekly menu: From the “Apps” — Click on: “Menu Planner” – After you have made all your selections for Morning; Noon; Evening and Snack — click on “Finish”, and that will load-up your daily individualized menus.

At the top of this page in the right hand corner — by an icon of a ‘printer’ — click on ‘View Printable Version’.
At the top of this page (left hand corner) click on ‘Print Menu’.

On this printout you may make notes of any substitutions you’ve made (and other ‘stuff’) and (if you like) with a hi-lighter – circle any recipe you really like. And on the flip-side of the coin — make a note of what you don’t like. 😛

THEN: When you want that particular recipe again: At the top of (most) pages, click on “Recipes” – scroll-down to the “Search” box and type in the name of the recipe you want. What’s great about this feature is: It remembers all your queries and will give you a dropdown box for you to select what you are looking for when you type the ‘first’ letter of the recipe.

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In a software program on your PC (mine’s in WORD) you may copy the recipes to a Folder File and access your favs that way. When I get a page filled with the recipes I like, I print it out.

Hope this was/is helpful for you . . . 😛

Hi, bufight. Yes, it is, though if you can find an organic alternative, it may be more advantageous. 1/4 cup is considered a “carb” exchange, roughly equal to a slice of bread or 1/2 cup cooked oatmeal.

Hi, Patricia. One cup of fluid is 240 ml. For solid foods, the gram weight varies. In general, dairy products and fats are like liquids, flours and nuts/seeds are 120 g, fruits are 150 g, vegetables average about 70 g, poultry/meat/fish average about 200 g, grain products (rice, pasta) are about 160 g cooked (30 g uncooked).