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M a s t e r
M e a l
M a n a g e r
V e r s i o n
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U S E R ' S
G U I D E
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Copyright (c)
1989-1991
Thomas C. Johnson
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| ____|__ | Association of
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|___|___| MEMBER
Master Meal Manager
Table Of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Recipe File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Automatic Meal Scheduler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Shopping List Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Program Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
What You Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Making Working Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Single Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Dual Floppy Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Quick Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Recipe Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
VIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
PURGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
PRINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Schedule Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
CREATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
EDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
PRINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Shopping List Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
CREATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
EDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
PRINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Configuration Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
COLOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
PRINTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Recipe Manager In Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Selecting Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Enter/Edit/Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Undelete/Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Editing a Recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Servings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Meal Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Dish Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Ingredients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Item Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Master Meal Manager
Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Filing The Recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Purge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Print Single Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Selecting A Recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Number Of Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Number Of Servings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Print Recipes By Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Multiplication Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Meal Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Dish Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Print Scheduled Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Start Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Stop Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Meal Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Dish Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Print All Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Multiplication Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Print Recipe Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Create . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Start Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Number of Days to Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Selecting The Day to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Making Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Changing Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using the Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Pressing The F2 Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Pressing The INS Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Changing Servings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Shopping List Manager In Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Create . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Selecting An Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Editing An Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Deleting An Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Inserting An Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Saving The List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Re-Sorting The List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Configuration Manager In Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Master Meal Manager
Things You Can Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Data Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Number of Days to Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Number of Recipes to Print . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Number of Servings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Number of Dishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Finishing Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Changing Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Printer Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Header On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Header Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Recipe Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Bold On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Bold Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Recipe Comments On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Recipe Comments Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
IBM Box Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Master Meal Manager
Introduction
Are you tired of sitting down and agonizing over what meals to
plan for the next two weeks? Do you dread having to write down a
shopping list for what you think you'd like to have, hoping you
remembered everything needed? Have you wanted to nicely print out
recipes of your favorite recipe for friends who are impressed
with your culinary mastery?
Congratulations! You have just obtained the solution to these and
many other kitchen problems. Master Meal Manager will store all
your recipes for you, schedule meals automatically and create
a shopping list for you for the ingredients in all the meals on
your schedule.
This program was written by a frustrated husband who would be
assigned the task of deciding what the family was to eat every
two weeks. That's me! I got so tired of trying to think of what
it was we all liked, trying to remember what we ate the previous
week or so, and then trying to find something different to eat
each day. If it were just me, I wouldn't mind having the same
thing each week. But the rest of the family likes to have
somewhat of a variety so I turned to my trusty bit box for some
help.
The result is Master Meal Manager. We have found it to be
extremely helpful. Now my wife sits at the computer for a half
hour or so and produces a nicely printed schedule of our next 2
weeks of meals and a convenient shopping list with all the
necessary ingredients on it. By getting in the habit of putting
the schedule up on the refrigerator we are now able to keep
pretty good tabs on the list and our meal plans.
In keeping with the traditions of Shareware, please feel free to
pass this program on to all of your friends with PCs. I do ask
that you distribute this program and related files unmodified.
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Features
Master Meal Manager was designed to be fast and easy to use. With
it you can manage your recipes, automatically create meal
schedules, and produce shopping lists. Master Meal Manager has
the following features:
Recipe File Manager
=> A recipe file which will contain up to 500 recipes. Each
recipe can have the following information:
* A name up to 20 characters long.
* The types of meals it is used in. (Breakfast, Lunch,
Supper)
* The types of dishes it can be. (Beverage, Main, Side,
Dessert)
* A 30 character category field used to organize the
recipes.
* The number of servings the recipe makes.
* Up to 12 ingredients each defined by the quantity,
measurement, and name.
* Up to 9 lines of text for instructions, each line being
70 characters long.
=> Recipes are laid out on the screen just as they would be on
a recipe card.
=> Recipes can be added, deleted, edited, and printed.
Automatic Meal Scheduler
=> An automatic meal scheduling capability which plans what
recipes to have each day for up to 14 days. The schedule
contains the day of the week and the date for each day in
the schedule. Each day is broken up into 3 meals
(breakfast, lunch, and supper) with each meal containing up
to 2 beverages, 2 main dishes, 5 side dishes, and 2
desserts.
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=> The capability to edit and print the meal schedule once it
is created.
=> The capability of showing each day's schedule on the screen.
All meals and dishes are shown on the screen as they are
created and edited.
Shopping List Manager
=> Automatic creation of a shopping list from the meal
schedule. The shopping list maybe edited on screen and
printed out.
Program Control
=> Program, Screen Color, and Printer configuration control.
The program can be told to look anywhere on your system for
the files it uses. It can also be told how many servings are
needed for each meal and dish. The number of dishes for each
meal can also be changed for personal tastes. The program
can be told how to control your printer to print the
recipes, meal schedule and shopping list.
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Getting Started
There really is nothing complicated about getting Master Meal
Manager running, but there are some things that should be made
clear.
What You Need
In order to run properly, Master Meal Manager needs...
=> an IBM PC, XT, AT or any close compatible with at least
one 5.25" 360K floppy drive.
=> at least 512K of available memory.
=> MS-DOS or PC-DOS version 2.0 or greater.
=> 80 column by 25 line monitor (Monochrome or Color).
=> a printer capable of printing 10 and 17 Characters Per
Inch (CPI); 6 and 8 Lines Per Inch (LPI).
=> The Master Meal Manager Distribution Disk
Making Working Copies
I would highly recommend making a working copy of the Master Meal
Manager disk and then put the original away in a safe place
BEFORE actually beginning to use Master Meal Manager. Master Meal
Manager will not work properly in the form received from the
distributor.
Single Floppy Drive
When you make your working disk, follow these steps:
NOTE:
The <== symbol means to press the RETURN key.
1 Format a floppy with DOS on it by typing:
FORMAT A: /S <==
2 Create a file on it with the name AUTOEXEC.BAT by
typing:
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A: <==
COPY CON: AUTOEXEC.BAT <==
ECHO OFF <==
CLS <==
MMM <==
3 Now press the F6 key and RETURN to finish entering the
commands.
4 Copy MMM.EXE and RECIPE.DAT from your original Master
Meal Manager disk to the working disk you just made.
COPY A:MMM.EXE B: <==
COPY A:RECIPE.DAT B: <==
You now have a bootable disk which will automatically come up
with Master Meal Manager running. Using Master Meal Manager this
way, the number of recipes you can have in your recipe file will
be limited to about 200. This is due to the program and other
files on the disk taking up much of the space on the disk.
Dual Floppy Drives
If you have two floppy disk drives you can have a larger recipe
file (about 300 recipes) if you put the data files on a separate
floppy disk. To do this do the following:
1 Format one floppy with DOS on it mark it "Master
Meal Manager WORKING DISK".
FORMAT A:/S <==
2 Format another floppy without DOS on it and mark
it "Master Meal Manager DATA DISK".
FORMAT A: <==
3 Put the floppy marked "WORKING DISK" in the A:
drive.
4 Create the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the floppy with
DOS on it as described above in step 2 for the
single floppy instructions.
5 Put the distribution disk in the B: drive and copy
MMM.EXE from it to the "WORKING DISK".
COPY B:MMM.EXE A: <==
6 Put the floppy marked "DATA DISK" in the A: drive.
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7 Copy RECIPE.DAT from the distribution disk still
in drive B: to this disk.
COPY B:RECIPE.DAT A: <==
8 Put the floppy marked "WORKING DISK" back in the
A: drive.
9 Put the floppy marked "DATA DISK" in the B: drive.
10 Make the A drive the default drive by typing:
A: <==
11 Start up Master Meal Manager by typing:
MMM <==
12 Change the default data drive in Master Meal
Manager by selecting the CONFIG option and then
the PROGRAM option. Then enter "B:\" in the "DATA
PATH" field. For details on how to do this, see
the chapter on CONFIGURATION MANAGER.
Hard Disk Drive
For a hard disk, you should begin by setting up a subdirectory to
contain the Master Meal Manager files. You can name this anything
you wish. Once that is done just copy all the files over to the
subdirectory from the floppy. Master Meal Manager is started by
typing MMM or putting that command into a batch file. For
example...
Create the subdirectory and copy the files by typing the
following:
C: <==
MD MMM <== (MMM is the name of the subdirectory)
CD MMM <==
COPY A:*.* <==
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Quick Look
Lets take a quick look at the options available in Master Meal
Manager. We'll walk you through them briefly and talk about what
they can do.
Once you start Master Meal Manager you are presented with the
hello screen.
For a short period of time the program will be busy reading the
data it needs. When it's finished, you'll see a prompt on the
screen telling you to press RETURN to begin. At that point press
RETURN to get to the main menu.
Main MenuStarting from the main menu screen, you can select the
various options by moving the highlighted cursor over the option
you wish to use by using the left and right arrow keys.
Notice as you move the cursor around, the information window at
the bottom of the screen changes to describe the currently
highlighted main menu option. When the cursor is positioned over
the one you want, press RETURN.
Each of the options available (except for QUIT) has a sub-menu
that appears in a pop-up window underneath the name of the
option. Select the desired option by moving the highlighted
cursor over the it with the up and down arrow keys. As with the
main menu, press RETURN when you have highlighted the option you
wish.
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Recipe Manager
The RECIPES menu option brings up the RECIPE MANAGER. The Recipe
Manager helps you manage your recipe file. The recipe file is
organized somewhat like it would be in a file card box. The
recipe file can contain up to 500 recipes and is sorted
alphabetically by CATEGORY and RECIPE NAME for easy access.
The Recipe File
Let's talk a little bit about the recipe file. This is the
storehouse of information needed to make Master Meal Manager
work. If you wish to adequately plan your meals and create
accurate shopping lists, you must have an accurate recipe
file. In order to do this you may need to include things in
the recipe file which you may not have considered "recipes"
before.
For example, if you wish to plan beverages you must have
beverage recipes in the file. This may be nothing more than
a recipe that has a name, meal type and dish type, number of
servings and one ingredient with no instructions. If your
family drinks a lot of Milk like we do, then MILK will be a
recipe in the file with MILK as the only ingredient. This
allows Master Meal Manager to schedule it and put it on the
shopping list in the proper amounts. So please expand your
horizons when it comes to recipes in order to make Master
Meal Manager the most useful to you.
There are 3 options available within the Recipe Manager.
VIEW
The VIEW option allows you to take care of the actual contents of
the recipe file. It will allow you to add, delete, edit or just
look at any of the recipes in the file.
PURGE
Then there is the PURGE option. This option is used to
permanently remove any of the recipes you may have marked
"DELETED" using the VIEW option. This option actually removes
those recipes marked RECIPE DELETED in order to get rid of "dead
weight" in the file.
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PRINT
The third option available in the Recipe Manager is the PRINT
option. This is the option that allows you to print the recipes
and the recipe index (the alphabetical list of all recipes in the
recipe file).
PRINT has a number of available options for printing recipes. You
can print a single recipe (up to 99 copies), all the recipes of a
particular type, all or selected recipes from the Meal Schedule,
and ALL the recipes in the file.
Each recipe is printed in a recipe card-like format. By properly
configuring your printer (I'll talk about that a little later)
and using the IBM box character set, you can print out nice
looking recipe cards. I do cut them out and paste them on 4X6
cards to use in the kitchen.
The current date at the bottom of the recipe card along with a
comment line you can enter as you begin the printing process.
This is nice if you wish to give a recipe to someone else. You
can put your name or some other comment on the bottom of the card
like "Courtesy of ..." or "Fresh from ..." or whatever other
clever stuff you may come up with.
Finally, the recipe index may be printed out, which is handy to
have to see at a glance what recipes you have in your file. This
option assumes that your printer can print 8 lines per inch in
order to get more items on the page.
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Schedule Manager
The Schedule Manager is the heart of Master Meal Manager. With it
you can create, edit, and print up to 14 days worth of meal
schedules. A meal schedule consists of the day, date, and all the
recipes to be used for each meal. For each meal (breakfast,
lunch, and supper) there are four possible dish types which can
have recipes scheduled. These are beverages, main, side, and
desserts. You can schedule up to 2 beverages, 2 main dishes, 5
side dishes, and 2 desserts for each meal.
There are 3 options within the Schedule Manager.
CREATE
CREATE will generate the meal schedule for up to 14 days starting
with the date you select. This is done automatically for each of
the dish types in each of the meals. Recipes are selected from
the recipe file depending on the dish and meal types of each
recipe. These recipes are matched randomly with each of the types
to be filled in the schedule.
EDIT
EDIT allows you to change any of the recipe selections and
serving sizes generated using the CREATE option.
PRINT
PRINT allows you to print the schedule to your printer.
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Shopping List Manager
The Shopping List Manager allows you to generate a shopping list
from the Meal Schedule to insure you have all the ingredients
necessary to make all the recipes that are scheduled.
There are 3 options available in the Shopping List Manager.
CREATE
CREATE uses the meal schedule to generate a shopping list. Each
ingredient in each recipe scheduled is added to the list.
Obviously some ingredients will be used more than once.
Ingredients with the same name and measurement units (oz, cup,
etc.) will have their quantities combined and will show up only
once in the shopping list. If similar ingredients have different
measurement units they will show up separately on the list. When
the list is completed it is sorted alphabetically by name.
EDIT
As you would expect, EDIT allows you to edit the shopping list to
your liking. With EDIT you can further combine similar
ingredients as you wish, delete or add some. You can have up to
1000 items in the shopping list.
PRINT
PRINT sends the shopping list to the printer. This option assumes
that your printer can print 8 lines per inch in order to get more
items on the page.
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Configuration Manager
The Configuration Manager allows you to set up Master Meal
Manager to know certain things about how you wish it to run.
There are 3 options available in the Configuration Manager.
PROGRAM
The PROGRAM option allows you to set up the following items: Data
path; Number of Days for Automatic Schedule Planning; Number of
Recipes To Print Per Page; Default Servings; and Default Dishes.
COLOR
The COLOR option allows you to change the colors of the screen to
your liking.
PRINTER
The PRINTER option lets you set up the control codes for your
particular printer so that Master Meal Manager is able to
correctly print the recipes, schedules, and shopping lists. The
various control codes are entered as decimal values of the codes
to be sent to the printer to turn on and turn off each of the
special print commands. You are also able to tell Master Meal
Manager whether or not your printer can print the IBM box
character set. If it can, the recipe cards and the meal schedule
will look better because of the nice boxes around the information
printed.
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Recipe Manager In Depth
The Recipe Manager provides you with a menu of 3 options (VIEW,
PURGE, PRINT). Select the one you want with the up and down arrow
keys.
ViewSelecting the VIEW option brings up the recipe screen which
is in the form of a typical recipe card.
Selecting Recipes
Each recipe is displayed fully on the screen. From here you can
edit, delete, or undelete any recipe in the file. There are four
methods available to get to the recipe you desire:
# Up and Down Arrow keys
Use the up and down arrow keys to scan through the
recipe file to review each recipe.
# PGUP and PGDN keys
The PGUP key will immediately display the first recipe
in the file. The PGDN key will display the last recipe
in the file. From there you may use any of the other
methods to get to the recipe desired.
# F2 Recipe Index List
The F2 key brings up a window displaying a scrollable
list of all the recipes. You can then use the keys
described above (Up/Dn Arrow, PGUP/PGDN) to highlight
the name of the recipe you desire. Pressing RETURN will
select the currently highlighted recipe..
# Direct Entry of Recipe Name
Finally, you may directly type in a recipe name that
you wish to view. To do this, first press the INSert
key to clear the name field. Then enter the recipe name
(upper or lower case). Master Meal Manager will search
for that name in the recipe file and if it is there it
will be displayed.
If it is not found, a window will pop up in the middle
of the screen telling you that Master Meal Manager
cannot find your recipe and will ask if you wish to
search for another recipe or enter a new one with the
name you just entered. If you wish to begin entering a
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recipe with that name, just press enter because Master
Meal Manager assumes you will wish to do that. If you
wish to search for another, press S and then RETURN to
continue scanning the recipe file.
TIP:
If you do not remember the exact spelling of a recipe you
wish to see, you may just enter the first letter or letters
that you do know. Master Meal Manager will find the first
recipe in the file that matches what you have entered. For
example, if you have a recipe called "SCRUMPTIOUS MUNCHIES"
and you can't remember how to spell "SCRUMPTIOUS", you can
just enter whatever you can remember of the first part of
the word, such as "SCRUM". Master Meal Manager will search
for the first recipe with "SCRUM" as the first 5 letters in
the name. In this case it would land on "SCRUMPTIOUS
MUNCHIES". If you did not have any recipes that began with
"SCRUM" then Master Meal Manager will ask you if you wish to
enter it now or search for another as described above.
Enter/Edit/Delete
Once you find the recipe you want, you can make changes to it by
pressing the RETURN key. When you do that, a window pops up and
asks you if you wish to either Edit or mark the recipe for
Deletion. You will notice an "E" at the end of the question
indicating that the default selection is to Edit the recipe. All
you have to do is press RETURN again. If you do not wish to edit
it but instead wish to mark the recipe for deletion, then just
press "D" and then RETURN. The "D" may be entered in either upper
or lower case. The recipe will be marked as deleted and a message
will show up in the instruction area of the recipe indicating it
is deleted. If you do not wish to either edit or delete the
recipe, you may just press the ESCape key to go back to selecting
a recipe.
HINT:
A word about "deleting" recipes... Deleting a recipe merely
"marks" it for deletion. It is still in the file and will
stay there until permanently removed using the PURGE option
discussed later. Until then a recipe marked for deletion may
be "undeleted" at any time.
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Undelete/Edit
A recipe that is already marked for deletion will have a message
appear in the instructions area saying it is deleted. If you
press RETURN at this recipe, you will get a pop up window with a
question asking if you wish to Undelete the recipe or undelete
the recipe and then Edit it. The default answer is "U" in which
case the recipe will be unmarked for deletion and then go back to
letting you select and view recipes. If you enter "E" the recipe
will be unmarked for deletion and then editing will begin as
described above. Recipes unmarked for deletion will not be
removed during a PURGE.
The difference between entering and editing recipes is that
entering starts out with a blank recipe and editing starts out
with a recipe with information in it. The process after that is
the same.
Editing a Recipe
You may move around between the various fields of the recipe by
using the up and down arrow keys and the PGUP and PGDN keys.
Let's take a look at the different fields in the recipe.
NOTE:
All the text areas (fields) are edited by entering the
characters you wish into the fields available. Each field
will hold as many characters as the highlighted area shows.
You may use the BACKSPACE key to delete a character to the
left of the cursor. The DELete key deletes the character the
cursor is on. The INSert key will completely clear out a
field of all characters and allow you to start over. When
you enter characters, any characters to the right of the
cursor are "pushed" to the right making room for the new
character. If any of the existing characters are pushed past
the end of the field they will be lost for good.
Name
The Name field is the area in the upper left hand corner of the
recipe screen. This is the name that will be used throughout
Master Meal Manager in referring to this recipe. This field has
room for 20 characters.
HINT:
If you need to make a duplicate of a recipe, a simple way to
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do it is to EDIT an existing recipe and then change the
NAME. Master Meal Manager will add that recipe to the file
as a new recipe with that new NAME.
Category
The Category field is a 30 character field which can be used to
categorize your recipes into meaningful groupings. The category
field is used along with the recipe name to sort the recipes.
Servings
The Servings field tells Master Meal Manager how many servings
this recipe is good for. It is used by the Schedule Manager and
the Shopping List Manager. You must enter some number here.
Master Meal Manager won't let you leave it blank and it won't let
you enter anything but numbers here for obvious reasons.
Meal Type
MEAL TYPE tells Master Meal Manager what type of meal or meals it
may use this recipe in. This is used primarily with the Schedule
Manager. If you have a recipe with "LS" in this field, you are
telling Master Meal Manager that this recipe can be used in
either Lunch or Supper meals. You can put any, all, or no meal
type codes in this field. The valid meal types are
B (BREAKFAST),
L (LUNCH),
S (SUPPER), and
A (ALL).
NOTE:
If you leave MEAL blank, you are telling Master Meal
Manager not to use this recipe anywhere in a meal schedule.
This may be nice for removing some recipes from
consideration during automatic meal scheduling, but allowing
them to remain in the recipe file. When you again wish the
recipe to be considered for automatic scheduling, you can
again put the proper codes in the field. The recipe may be
manually scheduled no matter what MEAL it is defined as.
Dish Type
The other field used in meal scheduling is DISH TYPE. This tells
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Master Meal Manager which type of dish this is. If you have an
"S" in this field, this tells Master Meal Manager that it is to
be used only as a side dish.
And when used with the MEAL TYPE field example shown above, this
recipe would be used just as a side dish for either lunch or
supper. Again, you can have any, all, or no codes in this field.
Like the MEAL TYPE, if you leave this empty, this recipe will not
be scheduled automatically by the Schedule Manager.
Ingredients
The next section to be edited is the ingredients. There are 12
places for ingredients. You may enter ingredients in any, all, or
none of the 12 places.
Each ingredient has 3 parts:
Quantity
The Quantity may be a whole number such as "13", or a
fraction such as "1/4", or a combination of the two such as
"13 1/4". If you enter a fraction such as "10/4", it will be
reduced to the proper representation of "2 1/2"
automatically. A couple things to keep in mind when entering
fractions is that the fraction part must be separated from
the whole number part by a space. The fraction part must be
entered with a number, a "/" (slash) and another number. NO
DECIMAL NUMBERS ARE ALLOWED. Master Meal Manager will not
accept a decimal point (.). All numbers are rounded to these
fractions: 1/16, 1/10, 1/8, 1/6, 3/16, 1/5, 1/4, 3/10, 5/16,
1/3, 3/8, 2/5, 7/16, 1/2, 9/16, 3/5, 5/8, 2/3, 11/16, 7/10,
3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 13/16, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10, 15/16.
Measurement
The Measurement is a text field in which you indicate the
measurement of the ingredient such as "CUP", "OZ", or "TSP".
You decide what the names of the measurements are.
HINT:
One thing to remember is that in order for the Shopping
List Manager to work efficiently, you should try to be
consistent in the spelling of your measurement and item
names. When the Shopping List Manager gets the
ingredients for the shopping list, it tries to match up
ingredients with the same item name and same
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measurement name so it can combine them and make a
shorter list.
Item Name
The Item is the description of the ingredient. As with the
measurement, consistency in the names used for ingredients
will help greatly. Try not to use "ONION" in one recipe and
"ONIONS" in another. They will show up as separate items in
the shopping list.
Instructions
For the Instruction section, you may enter up to 9 lines with 70
characters per line. Editing these lines is just like editing all
the other fields. You may move up and down among the instruction
lines with the up and down arrow keys and move along the line
with the left and right arrow keys.
Filing The RecipeOnce you are done editing the recipe, press the
ESCape key. You will be asked if the recipe is the way you want
it. If it is, you can just press RETURN and the changes you made
will be stored in the file. Or you can press "N" and RETURN to go
back in and make more changes to the recipe. Finally you can
press ESCape and ignore any of the changes you just made. Master
Meal Manager will go back to the VIEW mode.
Once you are finished with the VIEW mode, just press ESCape and
you will be back at the main menu.
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Purge
Selecting the Purge option will permanently delete the recipes
currently marked for deletion from the recipe file.
Once you have selected this option, a window pops up on the
screen warning you of the need to make a backup of your recipe
file before you proceed with the Purge. You have the option of
backing out of this without any changes by pressing the ESCape
key or just pressing RETURN. Notice the default response to the
question is "NO".
To continue you must press the INSert key and then enter "YES".
Once you do, the screen show you its progress in the purge
process.
NOTE:
If you are using Master Meal Manager on a floppy disk, the
purge process may take some time to complete, depending on
the size of your recipe file.
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Print
The PRINT option in the Recipe Manager allows you to do all the
printing associated with the recipe file. There are a number of
options within Print which will allow you to print out the
recipes and the index in a number of ways which can be helpful to
you. The available options show up in a pop up menu window when
you select PRINT.
These options are selected the same way the rest have been, by
using the Up and Down arrow keys to move the cursor to the
desired choice and then pressing RETURN.
Print Single Recipes
This option allows you to select a single recipe from the file
and print it out in a typical recipe format on your printer. This
option has several unique features.
Comments
The first thing that happens when you select this option is you
will be given the opportunity to enter a comment line which will
be printed on the bottom of each of the copies to be printed.
This is nice if you are giving the recipe to a friend and you
want to put a note or your name on the recipe. You can put things
like "From the kitchen of ..." or "Courtesy of ..." or whatever.
You have up to 40 characters to use for this. When the recipe is
printed, the current date is printed on the same line with the
comments.
Selecting A Recipe
Selecting a recipe here is identical to selecting one in the VIEW
option. The recipes are displayed on the screen and you select
the desired recipe by using the same four methods. When you find
the recipe you want, select it by pressing RETURN.
Once the recipe is selected you are asked to verify if this is
the recipe you wish to print. Your choices at this point are to
press RETURN if it is, Press "N" if it is not, or press ESCape to
completely bail out of the RECIPE option and go back to the main
menu.
Number Of Copies
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If you elect to print this recipe, you are asked how many copies
of this recipe you wish to have printed. This is handy if you
want to do things like having a bunch of copies of your favorite
casserole recipe available to hand out at the church pot luck.
The default is one.
Number Of Servings
The last question you are asked is the number of servings your
recipe should be printed out for. Master Meal Manager will then
automatically adjust all the ingredient quantities to make the
number of servings indicated. This is an extremely useful feature
if you are wanting to scale a recipe up or down to serve more or
less than is shown on the recipe in the file. The default is the
original number in the recipe and if you do not wish to change it
just press RETURN. If you do want to change it just press the
INSert key and enter the number of desired servings.
NOTE:
Scaling down a recipe could result in some inaccurate
quantities of some items depending on how far down you
scale. The minimum ingredient quantity Master Meal Manager
will compute is 1/16. For some things that may be a problem.
To be safe, it would be better to enter a recipe for a small
number of servings and then scale up rather than the other
way around.
Printing begins at this point. If you have requested more than
one copy of the recipe be printed, Master Meal Manager will print
on each page the number of copies indicated in the CONFIG
PROGRAM.
When the recipe is printing, a little pop up window shows on the
screen and indicates the recipe is being printed. If you wish to
stop the printing process, just press ESCape and in a moment or
two the printing will stop and the program will return to the
print option menu. When printing is done, the program will return
to the screen showing the recipe just printed. From here you may
move to another recipe to print or just press ESCape and go back
to the main menu.
Print Recipes By TypeThis option allows you to print out a number
of recipes from the file based on the meal type and dish type you
specify.
Comments
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When you select this option you are allowed to enter comments as
in the SINGLE RECIPE option.
Multiplication Factor
Then you are asked to enter the "multiplication factor" for the
recipes to print. This multiplication factor can be used to scale
up or down the recipes to be printed. This is similar to entering
the number of servings in the SINGLE RECIPE option except that
the number you enter here will be used to directly multiply the
servings by and ingredient quantities by. This factor can be any
whole number you want from 1 to 100. Even though you may be able
to enter numbers as high as 999, Master Meal Manager internally
limits the number to 100.
Meal Type
Once you do this you are requested to enter the meal type you
wish to print. The question helps you with the answer by
providing the valid answers you can use. These answers are B, L,
S, and A. The B stands for BREAKFAST, L stands for LUNCH, S
stands for SUPPER, and A stands for ALL. Select the one you want.
Dish Type
You then enter the dish type you wish printed. The possible
choices are B for BEVERAGE, M for MAIN, S for SIDE, D for
DESSERT, and A for ALL. Once you select the meal type and the
dish type, printing will begin. All recipes with the meal type
and the dish type selected will be printed. Each of the recipes
selected for printing will be displayed on the screen. After
printing all the recipes found with the selected meal and dish
types, the program will return to the RECIPE PRINT option.
Print Scheduled Recipes
This option allows you to print selected recipes from the meal
schedule. If you do not have a schedule created, Master Meal
Manager will tell you that there isn't any to use and you must go
back to the main menu and using the SCHEDULE CREATE option to
create a new schedule before using this option.
Start Date
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The first thing you need to do is to select the first date from
the schedule to select recipes from. This is done with the Up and
Down arrow keys. When you see the desired starting date, press
RETURN.
Stop Date
Do the same thing for the ending date. Notice you can't select an
ending date earlier than the starting date. Simply use the Up and
Down arrow keys to pick the desired stop date. This date is
included in the selections.
Meal Type
Once you do this you are requested to enter the meal type you
wish to print. The question helps you with the answer by
providing the valid answers you can use. These answers are B, L,
S, and A. The B stands for BREAKFAST, L stands for LUNCH, S
stands for SUPPER, and A stands for ALL. Select the one you want.
Dish Type
You then enter the dish type you wish printed. The possible
choices are B for BEVERAGE, M for MAIN, S for SIDE, D for
DESSERT, and A for ALL. Once you select the meal type and the
dish type, printing will begin. All recipes in the schedule
between the dates selected and with the meal type and the dish
type selected will be printed.
Once that is done, printing will begin. Master Meal Manager will
print all the recipes between the starting and ending dates which
have the meal and dish types selected. The comment printed at the
bottom of each recipe will tell what date in the schedule the
recipe came from.
HINT:
This can be useful for having recipes ready to go for
certain days and meals.
Print All Recipes
This option does just what it says. It will print all the recipes
in the recipe file.
Comments
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When you select this option you are allowed to enter comments as
in the SINGLE RECIPE option.
Multiplication Factor
Then you are asked to enter the "multiplication factor" for the
recipes to print. This is similar to entering the number of
servings in the SINGLE RECIPE option except that the number you
enter here will be used to directly multiply the servings and
ingredient quantities by. This factor can be any whole number you
want from 1 to 100. Even though you may be able to enter numbers
as high as 999, Master Meal Manager internally limits the number
to 100.
Once this information is entered, printing will begin.
Print Recipe Index
This option prints the entire recipe index. This is a listing of
the names of all the recipes in the recipe file. Along with the
name of each recipe, it prints the category, meal type, the dish
type, and an X in brackets if the recipe is marked for deletion.
This is a good way to determine at a glance which recipes are
marked for deletion before performing a PURGE. Every recipe with
an X in the box will be eliminated from the recipe file during a
PURGE. A legend showing what all the meal and dish type codes
mean is printed at the bottom.
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Schedule Manager In Depth
Selecting the Schedule Manager provides you with a menu of 3
options (CREATE, EDIT, PRINT) to work with the Meal Schedule. The
Meal Schedule is a day by day plan of what recipes you will have
for each of the dishes and meals for the number of days you have
planned. A day contains up to 3 meals (Breakfast, Lunch, and
Supper). Each meal can have 4 different types of dishes
(Beverage, Main, Side, and Dessert). You can have up to two
beverages, 2 main dishes, 5 side dishes, and 2 desserts for each
meal. All these numbers can be changed to your liking by using
the CONFIG PROGRAM option discussed later.
Create
Selecting the CREATE option allows you to have Master Meal
Manager automatically plan your meal schedule for you. It will
plan the meals and dishes you wish for up to 14 days.
It first checks to see if there is an existing schedule. If there
is, Master Meal Manager pops up a window with a warning that you
will overwrite this existing schedule if you continue with this
option. You can just press RETURN to continue on with the
schedule or you can press ESCape to exit and go back to the main
menu.
Start Date
Then it pops up a window and asks you for the starting date of
your schedule. It will offer you today's date as a default. If
that is to your liking, just press RETURN. If not, use the
editing keys (left & right arrow, backspace, delete, insert) to
make the necessary changes. You must enter the date in a certain
way that Master Meal Manager will understand. Just like the
default date that shows up on the screen, it must first begin
with a 3 letter abbreviation of the month. The valid
abbreviations are: JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP,
OCT, NOV, and DEC. Next there must be a space followed by the day
of the month, then a comma (,), and then the year. So a typical
date would be FEB 2,1989 or DEC 25,1990.
Number of Days to Plan
When you have entered the starting date you tell Master Meal
Manager how many days to plan. It first presents you with the
default number of days. You may change this to anything from 1 to
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14 if you don't like what you see. The new number you enter will
become the default for the next time you CREATE a SCHEDULE.
You may also change this default number by using the CONFIG
PROGRAM option.
NOTE:
Up until the time you press RETURN for the number of days to
schedule, you may back out of the CREATE option by pressing
ESCape. This will return you to the main menu without
affecting any existing schedule. ONCE YOU PRESS RETURN HERE
AND THE SCHEDULING PROCESS BEGINS, THE PREVIOUS SCHEDULE YOU
MAY HAVE HAD WILL BE OVERWRITTEN BY THE NEW ONE.
Scheduling
Once you enter the number of days to plan, Master Meal Manager
begins to automatically plan your meal schedule. It starts with
the starting date and begins planning the first meal that has
more that 0 dishes in it according to the CONFIG PROGRAM option.
For each dish of each meal, Master Meal Manager searches the
recipe file for a recipe that has the correct meal and dish types
and puts the name of that recipe in the schedule. If there are
more than 1 of a particular dish in a meal, Master Meal Manager
checks for duplicates to make sure a particular recipe doesn't
show up more than once for that dish.
Once the schedule is finished Master Meal Manager stores it to
disk and returns to the main menu.
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Edit
Undoubtedly you will have some differences of opinion in some of
the recipe combinations picked by Master Meal Manager. So in
order to allow you to make changes, Master Meal Manager provides
the EDIT option.
When you select this option, assuming you have already created a
schedule as described above, the first day's schedule appears on
the screen. If there is no schedule to edit, then you will get a
message on the screen telling you so.
Selecting The Day to Edit
Assuming there is a schedule to edit, these are the options you
will have:
# Use the down arrow key to view each of the following
day's schedules and then the up arrow key to move back
in the schedule.
# Press ESCape to completely back out of the EDIT option
and go back to the main menu.
# Press RETURN when you see the day you wish to edit.
Making Changes
Master Meal Manager highlights the first recipe scheduled in the
first meal. From there you can either change the recipe selected,
delete the recipe and leave that dish blank, press RETURN to move
to the SERVings field, press the F1 function key to display that
recipe on the screen, or press ESCape to end your editing of that
day's schedule.
NOTE:
While editing the Meal Schedule, you may press the F1 key to
have the currently selected and highlighted recipe displayed
on the screen. The recipe is shown scaled to the proper
number of servings according to the servings shown in the
schedule for that recipe. This can come in handy if you wish
to get a quick reminder of what is in that recipe.
Let's look at these options a little closer...
Changing Recipes
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Using the Arrow Keys
First of all, you can change the recipe selected by either
using the up and down arrow keys to scan through the list of
names in the recipe file OF THE RECIPES THAT MATCH THE
CURRENT MEAL AND DISH TYPE. I emphasize this so that you
will not think something has gone bananas with your recipe
file. If you are currently editing side dishes for lunch,
only the recipes designated for lunch and side dish are
shown there. This saves you the time of skipping over
irrelevant recipes. This makes the task of making recipe
changes much easier.
Pressing The F2 Key
The F2 key will bring up the recipe index on the screen,
much like the Recipe Manager. Using the Up and Down Arrow
keys, the PGUP, and PGDN keys you can position the
highlighted cursor on the recipe of your choice. Press
Return to select the highlighted recipe for use in the
Schedule.
Pressing The INS Key
If for some reason you do not wish to have a recipe selected
for that particular meal and dish, then you may get rid of
the name by using the INSert key to clear the field. The
field will remain blank and the Servings field will show 0.
Changing Servings
After making a change to the recipe name, the cursor moves to the
SERVings field. You may keep what is there by just pressing
RETURN or change the servings by editing the number. If you try
to make the field blank, the number of servings will become 0
since this is a numeric field and must have some number in it. If
you press the PGUP key, the cursor will go to the previous recipe
in the schedule.
TIP:
You may choose to have a dish with a recipe name in it with
0 servings scheduled. This will make the ingredient for that
recipe show up in the shopping list without a quantity or
measurement.
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Print
If you have already created a meal schedule, this option will
print it out on your printer.
If you select this option with no meal schedule created you will
just get a message on the screen telling you there is no schedule
to print. Just press RETURN to go back to the main menu.
NOTE:
The printed Schedule is 137 characters wide. Make sure the
printer control code for SCHEDULE is set to the smallest
print size your printer can print. The printer must be
capable of printing at least 137 characters wide.
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Shopping List Manager In Depth
Selecting Shopping List Manager will provide you with three
options to help you with your shopping list as described below.
Create
The CREATE option automatically generates a shopping list for
you. It does this by taking the meal schedule and reading all the
recipe names on it. It then reads each of the recipes from the
recipe file and extracts the ingredients from them and creates a
list. Each ingredient that is already in the list with the same
name and measurement is accumulated together.
The Shopping List Manager first checks to see if there is an
existing shopping list. If there is, Master Meal Manager pops up
a window with a warning that you will overwrite the existing
shopping list if you continue with this option. You can just
press RETURN to continue on with the schedule or you can press
ESCape to exit.
NOTE:
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU SELECT THIS OPTION, YOU WILL
OVERWRITE ANY EXISTING SHOPPING LIST THAT YOU MAY HAVE
PREVIOUSLY CREATED.
The Shopping List Manager begins to generate the shopping list
and displays its progress with a pop up window which shows the
current number of list items currently found as it searches the
meal schedule. The Shopping List Manager can handle up to 1000
shopping list items. It is unlikely that this number of items
will be generated since generally there's is alot of duplication
in the ingredients of most recipes.
Once the entire meal schedule is read and all the ingredients are
put into the shopping list, the list is sorted alphabetically by
name. The progress of this is also shown on the screen. Once the
list is sorted Master Meal Manager returns to the main menu.
Edit
The Edit option allows you to make changes to the shopping list.
It opens up a window showing the editing commands and then opens
another window to display the list. The list is displayed
starting with the first 20 items.
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Selecting An Item
You may move around the list by using the up and down arrow keys
which will move you up or down one item. If you move the cursor
to the bottom or top of the list the list will scroll to reveal
the next item. You may also use the PGUP and PGDN keys to move up
or down one screen full at a time. The currently selected item is
the one the little arrow on to the left of the item description
is pointing to.
Editing An Item
You can edit an item by pressing the RETURN key. When you do this
the item description is highlighted, indicating you may now edit
that ingredient. When the ingredient name is the way you like it,
then press RETURN. The Quantity will then be highlighted.
Pressing RETURN will complete the editing of the quantity and
move to the Measurement. When this is the way you want it press
RETURN a last time to complete the editing process. The cursor
will be to the right of the measurement on the line you just
edited. From here you can once again move around the list or do
more editing.
Deleting An Item
You can delete an item by pressing the DELete key. The currently
selected item will be deleted from the list.
Inserting An Item
You can also insert new items where the cursor is by pressing the
INSert key. If you press the INSert key immediately after having
deleted an item, the last deleted item will be inserted at the
cursor. If you press the INSert key again, a blank line will be
inserted at the cursor. A blank line will then continue to be
inserted each time you press the INSert key until you again press
the DELete key. A blank will also be inserted when you press the
INSert key if you have not previously deleted anything.
After a blank is inserted, it may be edited like any other item.
This will allow you to add new items to your shopping list that
are not a part of the meal schedule. This could include things
like non-food items or anything else you want to remember to get.
HINT:
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You may move items around the list by doing the following:
1 Delete the item you wish to move.
2 Move the cursor to the place you want the item to be.
3 Press the INSert key once.
Saving The List
Once the shopping list is the way you like it, press the ESCape
key. You will be prompted indicate whether or not you wish to
keep the changes you have made to the list.
You may answer the question that appears regarding keeping
changes in one of three ways. First you may just press RETURN if
it is OK and you wish to keep the changes. If you want to go back
and make some more changes, press the "N" key and then RETURN to
go back to editing. Finally, you may get out without keeping any
of the changes you made by pressing the ESCape key again. You
will then be back at the main menu.
Re-Sorting The List
If you decide you wish to keep the changed list, you will be
asked if you want to have the list resorted. If you DO NOT, press
RETURN. If you do, enter 'Y' and then RETURN.
HINT:
Not resorting may be nice if you wish to rearrange things in
your list a certain way. You may want to put non-food items
at the bottom of the list, separated by a blank line.
Resorting would ruin that special arrangement.
Print
Selecting this option causes the shopping list to be sent to the
printer.
If there is no list to print, you will get a message on the
screen. Just press Return to go back to the main menu.
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Configuration Manager In Depth
The Configuration Manager allows you some control over how the
program works. There are three options available as described
below.
Program
The PROGRAM option shows the current defaults used by the program
for some of the various things it does. Most of the items affect
the Schedule Manager in the way it CREATEs the meal schedule.
Each of these things are changeable as you step down through
them.
Things You Can Change
Data Path
The first thing shown at the top of the screen is the current
path for Master Meal Manager's data files. This tells Master Meal
Manager where to look for all the various data files it uses such
as the recipe file, schedule, shopping list, printer codes, and
screen colors. This is a line of text in the form of an MS-DOS
path string. For example, if you have Master Meal Manager on a
hard disk drive which happens to be drive C, and you have its
data files in a separate subdirectory labeled MMDATA, the string
you would need to enter would be "C:\MMDATA\". Master Meal
Manager will always make sure there is a backslash '\' on the end
of the data path (if it is not blank) so that it will work
properly with MS-DOS. If you are using two floppy disks, the
Master Meal Manager disk is in the A: drive and the data disk is
in the B: drive, you would enter "B:\" here. If you do not wish
to have a data path specified, then just press INSert and then
RETURN. The field will remain blank.
Number of Days to Schedule
The next thing on the screen is the number of days the Schedule
Manager will plan a schedule for. This number is the one which is
the default answer to the question presented when you start up
the SCHEDULE CREATE option. This may be anything from 1 to 14.
Number of Recipes to Print
Next is the number of recipes that will fit on your printer page.
This may have to be determined by experimentation. As a starting
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point for determining this you can assume that if your printer
will print at 8 lines per inch, then you should be able to print
3 recipes per page. If it prints at 6 lines per page, then only 2
recipes will fit.
Number of Servings
The next section of the screen is the section which allows you to
tell the Schedule Manager the number of servings to schedule for
each dish of each meal when it does its automatic scheduling. If
you normally have only 2 people eat breakfast but you have 6
people eat supper, then you can tailor each meal and each dish to
compute the proper number of servings in order to accurately plan
ingredients needed. You would set all the breakfast dishes to 2
and the supper dishes to 6.
Number of Dishes
The final section allows you to tell Master Meal Manager how many
dishes for each meal to plan. You can have up to 2 beverages, 2
main dishes, 5 side dishes, and 2 dessert dishes. You may
configure Master Meal Manager for any number from 0 to the
maximum number. For example, you may not wish to have Master Meal
Manager plan beverages, so you can put a 0 in the beverages
fields of each meal. Or you may wish to have Master Meal Manager
only plan supper main dishes, so you would place 0's in all the
fields except SUPPER MAIN and there you would place either 1 or 2
depending on how many main dishes you wanted to have scheduled.
Finishing Up
You can edit each field the same way you edit other things in
Master Meal Manager. If you do not wish to change a particular
field and just want to move down the screen to others, just keep
pressing RETURN to get there. In this screen you may not move
back up with the arrow keys once you pass up an item. You do not
have to press RETURN for every item in order to finish up the
editing. Instead you can just press ESCape and answer the
question presented at the bottom of the screen.
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Colors
This option allows you to select the colors you wish to be
displayed on your screen. There are three categories of display
colors to set up. The first is called the SCREEN. This is the
color of the background window frames. Second is called DATA
DISPLAY. This is the colors used to display the information on
the screen. Some of the windows use this color combination also.
The third is the DATA ENTRY. This defines the colors used to
display a selected piece of information which will be edited or
entered. Some of the windows use this color combination also.
Changing Colors
Editing these colors is very easy. Simply use the left and right
arrows to the category you wish to edit. As the screen prompt
indicates, press the Page Up key to change the color of the 'X'
in the box, representing the color of the text on the screen.
Press the Page Down key to change the background color. Once you
have the colors the way you like them, press the ESCape key to go
back to the main menu. You will now see the new screen colors.
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Printer
This option tells Master Meal Manager what control codes to send
to your printer to make the printouts look right. Each of the
items on the screen describe some particular print characteristic
needed by the various print routines. As you can see, each
characteristic shown has a column for entering appropriate codes
for that feature. These codes must be obtained from the manual
that comes with your printer. You can edit any of these codes by
using the arrow keys to highlight the desired code, entering the
appropriate numbers, and then pressing RETURN.
Printer Codes
Codes are defined here by entering their decimal numbers
separated by a slash character "/". Master Meal Manager provides
you with some defaults which are designed to control an Epson
MX-80 printer. You can get the idea from these as to how to enter
the codes you need.
To aid you in determining how to define these codes, each of them
are described below.
Initialization
This code is sent to the printer each time something is printed
(recipe cards, schedule, shopping list, etc.). It can be used
for whatever setup you wish to do prior to printing something.
For example, this can be to set DRAFT or LQ mode. If your
printer is not set up to print in a monospaced font (where each
character takes up the same amount of space, as opposed to a
proportional spaced font where each character width is
different), then this would be a good place to put the proper
codes to do so. The printouts generated by this program require
a monospaced font in order to have everything line up properly.
Make sure your printer is not in proportional mode!
Header On
This code is sent to the printer just prior to printing a header
for the various printouts. For recipe cards it is sent just prior
to the recipe name. For the recipe index printout it is sent
prior to printing "RECIPE INDEX" at the top of the page. For
shopping lists, it is sent prior to printing "SHOPPING LIST." It
is not used in the meal schedule printout.
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The codes defined here can be used to make the headers appear
different than the rest of the printout. For example, the codes
to make it print double or triple width could be used here.
Header Off
This code is sent to the printer just after printing the header.
It can be used to turn off whatever feature you turned on prior
to the header.
Recipe Card
As you might suspect, this code is sent to the printer prior to
printing the body of the recipe card (the stuff included in the
box). This is sent just after the Header Off code described
above. To have the recipe card print somewhat close to a 4X6
index card, this code should have the printer print at some
condensed print, such as 16 or 20 characters per inch (CPI).
Schedule
This code is sent to the printer just before printing the meal
schedule. It should also (like Recipe Card) put the printer in a
condensed font. The schedule is 137 characters wide, so at 16.7
CPI it would be 8.2" wide. So your printer should be capable of
printing at least 137 characters and at no less than 16.7 CPI.
Any other codes specific to printing this printout could also be
put here.
Bold On
This code is sent to the printer just after sending Header On. It
is intended to be used to print the header boldly. This code is
also sent to the printer just prior to printing the "BREAKFAST
LUNCH DINNER" header in the meal schedule. Most printers have an
EMPHASIZED or a BOLD code. If not, just make it blank by
pressing the INSert key.
Bold Off
This code is sent just after the header or the recipe name and
just prior to the Header Off code. Use it to turn off whatever
you turned on with Bold On.
Recipe Comments On
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This code is sent prior to printing the comments that appear just
below the recipe card. You may have use this to print the
comments in italics or bold or very small, such as superscript.
The comments should be printed at the same width or smaller than
what the recipe card is otherwise the comment will extend beyond
the right edge of the card.
Recipe Comments Off
This is used to turn off whatever mode or font was turned on
before the recipe comments as described above.
Reset
This code is sent the the printer is finished with printing. It
can be used to reset the printer to some standard, default state.
Most printers have a reset code. That should be put here.
IBM Box Character Set
A final question presented at the bottom of the screen asks you
if your printer can print the IBM box character set. This is the
character set which makes the various lines and corners used to
make boxes on the computer screen. Many printers will print these
characters but some do not. If yours does not, use the up arrow
key to change the answer to NO for this question. Instead of
printing the box characters, Master Meal Manager will use dashes
(-) and bars (|) to outline the printouts.
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Final Remarks
Well, I hope this little User Guide will help you get the most
out of Master Meal Manager. I think Master Meal Manager will be a
valuable asset in planning your meals and shopping trips. It has
helped us keep better track of our diet and our food budget by
giving us a handle on the what we eat.
I encourage you to write and tell me what you think of Master
Meal Manager and pass along any ideas you may have to improve it.
I also want to hear about any problems you encounter in using
Master Meal Manager. The more comments I hear, the better Master
Meal Manager will become. I will appreciate whatever you have to
say.
Thank you for using Master Meal Manager!
Thomas C. Johnson
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