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1. Changing Serving SizeQ: I want to change the servings for a meal on the Meal Planning Calendar. I don't create menus for ever meal I put on the calendar. Otherwise, I would end up with sixty-million menus for every day of the year. I just put recipes on the calendar. I like the fact that you don't have to save all the meal plans and that the recipes will be purged after a set number of days. Anyway, as you know on all the meals on the calendar the serving is set to 1. When you add a recipe to that meal it is automatically scaled to 1 serving. What I was wanting to do was change the serving size of the meal. Is there a way of doing this? A: 1. If you want the recipes to serve the number originally in the recipe: select each recipe individually, right click to get the pop-up menu, select "Set Servings", change the servings of "1" to the value from the original recipe (it's shown in the pop-up) 2. If you want an entire meal (like Dinner) scaled to the same value: select the meal (like the line dinner) which selects all the recipes under that meal, right click to get the pop-up menu, select "Set Servings", change the servings to what you want. I think this also works for an selecting an entire day. 3. If you want the entire week scaled to the same thing: select the first day, scroll to the bottom and do a SHIFT-LEFT-MOUSE-CLICK which selects everything, right click to get the pop-up menu, select "Set Servings", change the servings to what you want. [ Top of Page ] 2. Making a Meal PlanOpen MasterCook, then click on Meals, I then click on the Calendar the Sunday of the Week that I am planning the Menus, I am going to give you my Menu for today. When you click on the Calendar a form pops up on the right hand side that says date, also has sections for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. So under Breakfast you would type each food you wish to have, enter and then a box will appear asking for the ingredient amount, i.e.: I typed in Apple Juice and in the ingredient amount box I typed 1/2 cup in the amount and tabbed to the Unit and typed cup and pressed okay. (Sometimes I find that the amount and unit box fails to pop up as it should and I click the product until it does. Repeat for Lunch and Dinner. While you are typing the individual meals if you highlight and hit the heart on the right you will get the nutritional info for that meal, and high the whole thing when you like myself try to see what the WW Points are. Below is an example. Breakfast: Exchanges: 1 1/2 Grain (Starch); 1 Fruit; 1/2 Non-Fat Milk; 1 1/2 Fat: 0 other Carbohydrates Lunch: Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 629 calories; 8g Fat (10.8% calories from fat); 36g Protein; 109g Carbohydrate; 16g Dietary Fiber; 8mg Cholesterol; 314mg Sodium. Exchanges: 3 1/2 Grains (Starch); 1 Lean Meat; 1/2 Vegetable; 1/2 Fruit; 2 Non-Fat Milk; 1 Fat; 1 Other Carbohydrates Dinner: Per Serving (excluding unknown items); 584 calories; 11g Fat (15.4% calories from fat); 67g Protein; 68g Carbohydrate; 14g Dietary Fiber; 101mg Cholesterol; 1346mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1/2 Grain (Starch) 6 1/2 Lean Meat; 6 Vegetable; 1/2 Fruit; 1/2 Non-Fat Milk; 1 1/2 Fat; 1 Other Carbohydrates. NOTES: You have to make sure that the recipes you are using are in MasterCook properly, this is that are no unknown items that will in fact affect the calories, fat, fiber etc, i.e.: just typing in say a cut of meat that is not know in MasterCook therefore this items will not be included in the nutritional values. When we print the above the recipes are also printed, which is super. If you do not desire a shopping list when you go to print, on the print screen box you have a choice to check the shopping list that you do not want to print one. To get the daily amount, highlight the 3 meals, and then click on the heart
button on the right hand side. For the above it is Calories (kcal): 1501 (I am
trying to follow at 1500-1600 diet as per my Diabetic Doctor) Total Fat 27g, Cholesterol 134mg, Total Carbohydrate 227g, Dietary Fiber 34g, Sodium 2011g Potassium 9964mg WW Points: C: 1501, F: 27g, DF 34g = 25 points (I try to stay with 25 - 28 Points) Food Exchanges; Starch 5, Lean Meat 7 1/2; Vegetable 7; Fruit 2 1/2; Non-Fat Milk: 2 1/2 Fat 4, Other Carbohydrates 2. (except I had 1 1/2 too much protein is perfect for my Diabetic diet) So you see this Meal section of MasterCook is excellent to help those like myself who is trying to keep fat and carbs lower. [ Top of Page ] 2. Adding a Calendar from a Previous VersionI found the solution, and I was successful in bringing over my calendar file from MC8 to MC9. Only 3 files are involved. |
