http://www.30daygourmet.com The latest Cooks' Corner message board posts from 30 Day Gourmet.com, the leader in freezer cooking. Copyright (C)2012 - 30 Day Gourmet 30 Day Gourmet RSS Generator http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10926.aspx I think this post went into cyberspace!! Hopefully I have not duplicated OK so by using those filtering methods I now know I can "tag" my recipes in the instructions ie: Family Favorite and then search the instructions using %Family Favorite% to refine the recipes to select for my cooking day ( though I have noticed that the search is case sensitive ! ) To solve the problem of the dissapearing recipes would it be possible to add a check box in the Cooking Day/Recipe Selector to "add to existing cooking day " that way I have the option to remove whats there and add new OR add to what is already there ( from the filtered items). This means I could search for Chicken Entrees add them to a new cooking day, the do another search for instructions/%family Favorites% + Recipes/beef and then choose from just what I know my family loves in the beef section to my exsiting Chicken cooking day. To solve the problem of not seeing everything you already have in you selected cooking day when you have filters set would it also be possible to have a Filter - Toggle check box as well in the Cooking Day /Recipe Selector screen so I could toggle my filter on and off, thus saving shutting down that screen going back to recipes turning off the filters then going back to the cooking day etc etc...I am sure you get the picture. Its not a perfect system but would make a good work around and would make it very fast if you had a tried and tested cooking day to "make a copy" then filter for say chicken ( as you know the supermarket will have chicken breasts on special this week ) and add in a few extra chicken meals to you existing loved cooking day taking advantage of the sale day and leaving the origional Cooking Day intact. Thanks Daneen PS Sorry if I seem a bit "pushy " but I have Beta tested for a few different sotware applications ( never cooking software ) and am used to trying to force softare "appications" MY way and usually there is a work round most things ( ie: the % family favorte % Tagging) I have used Mastercook for more than 10 years and am a avid cook and recipe collector, I will end up with about 600 recipes in this software (obviously not all freezer cooking but I like to have a copy of everything in the one place and am willing to take the time to get them all into this software ) it would take forever to search thru my recipes to add to a cooking day of all 600 show up in the recipe selector without useful filters. You have a great product here I can really see that it will have a much better application for my Freezer cooking days than Mastercook ever did. Please feel free to contact me of list should you need me to explain things better. PS As a computer literate "end user" I have no programming experience so I have no idea how easy or hard this would be to apply to Advantage cooking ! ... sorry.....lol Original post: Hi I have bought the software and changed it to metric, lots of questions but getting there. I don't understand how the filters system works. I would like to filter my recipes for say "Beef Entrees" add in the beef meals to my cooking Day then filter for Chicken meals and ADD those to the same Cooking Day, when I do this it takes away all the beef meals that I had already selected. I have added all the BBFC recipes but I want to add in about 500 Mastercook recipes that I want to put in catagories like "Daneens Beef Meals" & "Daneens Chicken Meals " I want to be able to seperate from the BBFC recipes and then I want to be able to add meals from each componet to my cooking day. If this is not possible ( though it is fairly simple ) is it possible to Merge two Cooking Days, I expect to end up with over 600 recipes and I want to be able to filter them then make it an easy add to my Cookin Day Thanks Daneen PS Can you please also explain the filter for instructions I thought I may be able to filter for the word Mastercook in the instructions but I get no results ? Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:21:29 GMT http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10925.aspx OK so by using those filtering methods I now know I can "tag" my recipes in the instructions ie: Family Favorite and then search using the Search/ Instructions for % Family Favorite % ( though I have noticed that it is even case sensitive ) Would it be possible to add a check box in the Recipe selector section to say "Add to exsiting Cooking Day" and maybe that way if we do a filter for Beef in recipes or even beef + family favorites I can then add it to my already selected Chicken recipes that I have in my cooking day. This would also alow me to have a set of basic cooking days make a copy of them do a refined search and then very quickly add or remove a few recipes to fine tune a new Cooking Day. Another plus would be a toggle in the Recipe Selection box to toggle filters on and off so you could filter recipes go and add the recipes then if you wanted to see all the recipes ( once you added your filtered itmes ) you could toggle the filter off ( from that screen without having to close that box, go make to recipes and tune off filters ) . I will have ALOT of recipes in this software by the time I get through with it so the idea of going thru a long list is not appealing to me. Thanks Daneen PS Sorry if I may appear a bit "pushy" but I have Beta tested for a few different types of software companies ( not cooking related ) and am often trying to push the boundries of the software I also have an extensive list of Mastercook Recipes and I can see where your software does Bulk/freezer cooking so much better than any other software I have seen available. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:40:25 GMT http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10924.aspx Hi Daneen, Good job taken on the metric conversions. It seems that beside metric you're the first one to notice the link between filtering on the recipes tab and the recipes presented when creating a cooking day, me included. I see what you mean about adding the beef and then adding the chicken and all the beef go away. This is just the selector trying to do it's job. The beef are no longer on the right side of the selector and so they get removed. I think we we need is a way to filter in the recipe selector. But that will take some work on my part. As far as using the filter to find a word in the instructions, use the "like" operator and put percent signs around the word. Example %Mastercook% Original post: Hi I have bought the software and changed it to metric, lots of questions but getting there. I don't understand how the filters system works. I would like to filter my recipes for say "Beef Entrees" add in the beef meals to my cooking Day then filter for Chicken meals and ADD those to the same Cooking Day, when I do this it takes away all the beef meals that I had already selected. I have added all the BBFC recipes but I want to add in about 500 Mastercook recipes that I want to put in catagories like "Daneens Beef Meals" & "Daneens Chicken Meals " I want to be able to seperate from the BBFC recipes and then I want to be able to add meals from each componet to my cooking day. If this is not possible ( though it is fairly simple ) is it possible to Merge two Cooking Days, I expect to end up with over 600 recipes and I want to be able to filter them then make it an easy add to my Cookin Day Thanks Daneen PS Can you please also explain the filter for instructions I thought I may be able to filter for the word Mastercook in the instructions but I get no results ? Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:01:23 GMT http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10923.aspx Hi I have bought the software and changed it to metric, lots of questions but getting there. I don't understand how the filters system works. I would like to filter my recipes for say "Beef Entrees" add in the beef meals to my cooking Day then filter for Chicken meals and ADD those to the same Cooking Day, when I do this it takes away all the beef meals that I had already selected. I have added all the BBFC recipes but I want to add in about 500 Mastercook recipes that I want to put in catagories like "Daneens Beef Meals" & "Daneens Chicken Meals " I want to be able to seperate from the BBFC recipes and then I want to be able to add meals from each componet to my cooking day. If this is not possible ( though it is fairly simple ) is it possible to Merge two Cooking Days, I expect to end up with over 600 recipes and I want to be able to filter them then make it an easy add to my Cookin Day Thanks Daneen PS Can you please also explain the filter for instructions I thought I may be able to filter for the word Mastercook in the instructions but I get no results ? Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:43:03 GMT http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10922.aspx Thanks Carol, I'll try that. Original post: The chicken cordon bleu recipe is great but all my cheese runs out of it. Any suggetions? Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:02:15 GMT http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10921.aspx Check the internal temperature of the chicken at 25 to 30 minutes into cooking. Depending on the thickness of the chicken breast, it may be done already. You can also try using a block of Swiss cheese instead of slices. Cut the block into thicker strips and place the strip in the middle of the chicken breast when you roll it. This should prevent it from oozing out. Original post: The chicken cordon bleu recipe is great but all my cheese runs out of it. Any suggetions? Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:41:58 GMT http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10920.aspx The chicken cordon bleu recipe is great but all my cheese runs out of it. Any suggetions? Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:25:14 GMT http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10919.aspx I worked this out if you are using metric and don't have a packaging size set in ingredients it will revert back to imperial. Original post: Hi I have just bought the software and am trying to convert everything to Metric. I have done the article 18 changes ( though I need confirmation on what an "ounce" should be under Reference/Measures as I may have accidently changed it, I have left ounce and teaspoon and put in my required measurements, I then when through ever ingrefient and deleted all the packaging ( I will put that back in in metric later ) I also changed all the containers to metric and then went through every preloaded recipe and changed all the ounces pints etc to metric, when I bring up a sample cooking day I am still getting some items in ounces? even though I can go back and check the recipe and the ingredients are in metric? What do I need to do to fix this I have absoutley no idea of the imperial system. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:13:44 GMT http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10918.aspx Also I have messed up a few more things, I copied a conversion from ingredient to the other the wrong way round so it actually wiped the conversion from the item I wanted it to keep...how can I find out what the conversion for a cup of cooked ground beef is ( are these written anywhere? ) Original post: Hi I have just bought the software and am trying to convert everything to Metric. I have done the article 18 changes ( though I need confirmation on what an "ounce" should be under Reference/Measures as I may have accidently changed it, I have left ounce and teaspoon and put in my required measurements, I then when through ever ingrefient and deleted all the packaging ( I will put that back in in metric later ) I also changed all the containers to metric and then went through every preloaded recipe and changed all the ounces pints etc to metric, when I bring up a sample cooking day I am still getting some items in ounces? even though I can go back and check the recipe and the ingredients are in metric? What do I need to do to fix this I have absoutley no idea of the imperial system. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:37:18 GMT http://www.30daygourmet.com/CooksCorner/Posts/10917.aspx Hi I have just bought the software and am trying to convert everything to Metric. I have done the article 18 changes ( though I need confirmation on what an "ounce" should be under Reference/Measures as I may have accidently changed it, I have left ounce and teaspoon and put in my required measurements, I then when through ever ingrefient and deleted all the packaging ( I will put that back in in metric later ) I also changed all the containers to metric and then went through every preloaded recipe and changed all the ounces pints etc to metric, when I bring up a sample cooking day I am still getting some items in ounces? even though I can go back and check the recipe and the ingredients are in metric? What do I need to do to fix this I have absoutley no idea of the imperial system. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:46:49 GMT