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- 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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