                 Chef-Plan Help File              |  
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   Assistance with figuring out what to have for    |
   dinner for the next 5 evenings is what Chef-Plan |
   is all about.  Planning ahead is the best way to |
   save money, and ease your mind about last minute |
   decision of what to fix tonight!                 |
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   Planning for several meals, or just one, gives  |
   the busy person a new tool for taking care of the|
   the most important evening task.        <MORE>   |
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   The opening menu provides the primary choices that
   are available for getting a Meal Plan into your  |
   hands quickly and easily.                        |
   The choices are:                                 |
      1. Pick one (or more) meals using selection   |
         of protein type and ethnic file.           |
      2. Print the MEALS that have been selected by |
         by either option 1, or option 3.           |
      3. Automatically select a plan of meals for the
         number of days set in the profile file.    |
      4. View the meals that have been selected on  |
         line to decide if you wish to print the set.
      5. This is the maintenance menu for the data  |
         files and the profile setup screen.        |
      6. Provides the chance to choose a meal using |
         one (or two or three) main ingredient(s).  |
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   The Pick and Choose a Meal screen provides the   |
   ablity to pick one meal using selections of      |
   protein type and ethnic file.  If you find more  |
   than one meal that match your search requirement |
   you can save the set and print them all.         |
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   The Print you MEAL PLAN screen allows you to get |
   a formated listing of the meal records that you  |
   have selected.                                   |
   If there are no records to print, go to screen #1|
   or screen #3, to select some MEAL records.       |
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   The Automatic Selection of MEALS screen sets in  |
   action the random selection of meal records using|
   the values in the profile file, that you usually |
   set only once.  The percent of beef meals will be|
   close to the percent that you choose for beef.   |
   And the percent of ETHNIC meals will closely     |
   match the requested spread of styles.            |
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   The PREVIEW Your Selections Screen is a convenent|
   way to look through the meal records selected by |
   by screen #1 or screen #3.                       |
   If there are no records to print, go to screen #1|
   or screen #3, to select some MEAL records.       |
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   The maintenance menu provides the options that   |
   are available for updating the Meal record file, |
   updating the Food record files, setting your own |
   family profile values, and printing selected (or |
   all) of the Food files and Meal files.   <MORE>  |
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   The choices are:                                 |
      1. Add, Change, Delete MEAL records. These are|
         the Ethnic style files.                    |
      2. Add, Change, Delete FOOD records. These are|
         the files that contain the side dishes and |
         accessory options.                         |
      3. Set the starting profile values that will be
         used when automatically selecting a plan of|
         meals (for the number of days set in the   |
         profile file).                             |
      4. Print selected (or all) Meal files.  These |
         are the main dish files with the codes that|
         point to desired record in the food files. |
      5. Print selected (or all) Food files.  These |
         are the records for the side dishes and the|
         accessory options needed with the entrees. |
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   The Style/Ethnic files are the MEAL files for the|
   meals that may have a regional or national flavor|
   or accent to the cooking.  The grouping is meant |
   to be suggestive of either ethnic spices that are|
   used or of main dishes that are common to that   |
   style.                                           |
   For the automatic selection of meals, the percent|
   associated with each style label is used to pick |
   a meal record.  If a negative preferences is     |
   desired, then set the percent to zero and no meal|
   will be picked with that ethnic flavor.          |
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   The MAIN dish grouping is the protein that is the|
   basis for the entree.  The choices are given for |
   a wide variety of tastes and preferences.        |
   For the automatic selection of meals, the percent|
   associated with each protein label is used to    |
   choose a meal record.  If a negative preferences |
   is desired, then set the percent to zero and no  |
   meals will be picked with that protein type.     |
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   The FOOD grouping is the side dishes and the     |
   other accessory options.  The choices are given  |
   for a wide variety of tastes and preferences.    |
   The explicit coding for a food record in the MEAL|
   record will tie that food record to that Meal.   |
   For a random selection from the food file, the   |
   code field in the MEAL record is coded as an     |
   asterisk '*' and is display as 'cooks choice'.   |
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   The options available for printing the selected  |
   file are:                                        |
       A  All will print all of the remaining files.|
       N  No means do not print this file.          |
       <ENTER> will print this one file.            |
       <ESC> will terminate the activity here.      |
       Y  Yes will print this one file.             |
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   The message of 'no matching meal record found'   |
   is the result of a combination of selections that|
   have no matches.  The choices are to pick a new  |
   combination of MEAL file and PROTEIN type (and try
   again) or to 'Quit' the screen by pressing the   |
   <ESC> key.                                       |
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