HealthAtHand Recipes and Dishes Help
The Recipes and Dishes panel allows you to enter your favorite recipes into a database. Once ingredients have been added to a dish you can select individual ingredients or dish servings for entry into your diary.
Adding or Changing Dishes
A dish must be placed in a dish folder called the Dish Type.
Dish Types are created, edited or deleted with the Dish Type menu. Just hold down the stylus to popup this menu.
This will allow you to add a new Dish Type, Rename a Dish Type or delete a Dish Type.
Dish's are displayed in the list next to the Dish Type list.
To add, edit or delete a dish, select the Dish Type then hold down the stylus in the Dish Name list.
If you decide to add or change a dish, the dish edit form will pop up.
Here you set the dish name and type. You set the portion and the number of servings the dish or recipe will yield. There is also a provision for adding a cooking instructions or notes. You can place up to 600 characters in this field. These instructions will be displayed at the bottom of the panel.
The Servings field is used to divide the meal totals into the portions indicated.
Here are a few pointers for creating new dishes.
Adding or Changing Dish Ingredients
Once you have selected or created a dish, you can now add or edit ingredients. This is done using the meal detail list.
This list will display all the ingredients for the selected dish, as well as the dish totals and the calculated per serving totals.
Use the scroll bars to scroll the list so that you can bring into view the additional food values. You can also drag the header field separators to resize the field.
There are several operations you can perform on dish ingredients.
The first set of operations makes changes to the ingredients while the others make copies of the information for use in other panels. The real power of the HealthAtHand system reveals itself with the many ways in which you can copy the data from one panel or database to another.
| Paste XXXX into Dish | Here you can directly paste the
clipboard contents into the dish as a new ingredient. Note
that the XXXX will be replaced by the first 15 characters of the
clipboard description. Once you select this option you will be
presented with a paste dialog box.
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Add New Ingredient
Edit Selected Ingredient
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This allows you to add or edit an
ingredient. There are several options during this process so
we have added a complete help file to explain all the features of
editing ingredients.
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| Delete Selected Ingredient | This will allow you to remove an
ingredient. You will be prompted one last time to make sure
you want to complete this operation. Remember you must remove
all ingredients from a dish before you can remove the meal.
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| Copy Ingredients to Clipboard | The selected ingredient is copied to
the clipboard. This will allow you to paste the ingredient
into other panels.
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| Copy Dish Serving to Clipboard | The selected serving totals are copied to
the clipboard. This will allow you to paste these totals as a
single ingredient into another panel.
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Place Ingredient on Shopping List
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This takes the name of the ingredient and add an entry to the shopping list. |
Dish Notes
When a dish is selected, the portion and servings will be indicated in the note field at the bottom of the panel.
If you have added cooking instruction to the dish form, this information will also be displayed.