Economat¶

Housecount
Diet list
 
Menu plan dates
Needs projection
Reports

Parameters
 Rotation days
 Menu plan recipes
 Menu plans
 Meals
 
 Recipes
 Products
 Categories
 Suppliers

Menu plans¶

Menus are organized in a 'Menu plan', which consists of

• a number of rotation days
• a number of meals for each rotation day
• a number of recipes for each meal

The menu plan itself has two parameters that can be adjusted:

• name
• number of rotation days

Rotation days¶

Each menu plan has a number of rotation days, e.g. 12. A menu plan with 12 rotation days will have recipes for each daily meal repeat every 12 days.

Viewing the list of rotation days¶

The Rotation days link under Parameters in the Economat menu links to the list of rotation days that have been defined.

Each Rotation day has a sequence number, a name, and a list of associated recipes, organized per meal.

A typical 12-day rotation would have these rotation days defined:

The name of each rotation day is arbitrary. The sequence numbers assigned to each day determine the order in which the rotation days appears in the menu plan.

Out-of-rotation days¶

Sometimes a special menu is required on a specific day. Take for instance this example:

This line from the Rotation days list defines a special, out-of-rotation day. The first thing to note is the sequence number: it is set to an arbitrary number, in this case 1181.

Rotation days can have any sequence number, as long as it is unique - there can be no two rotation days with sequence number 11, for instance.

The sequence number for this rotation day is larger than 12, which is the number of rotation days defined in our menu plan. Because it is larger than 12, this rotation day will not be part of the standard rotation. For that reason, its background is light grey instead of white, when shown in the list of rotation days.

Because this is not a standard rotation day, it makes sense to give it a more meaningful name. In this case, 'Swiss National Day'.

Making a copy of a rotation day¶

FIXME

Menu plan recipes¶

A menu plan recipe is the link between a Rotation day and the list of recipes to be used on that day.

The Menu plan recipes link under Parameters in the Economat menu links to the list of menu plan recipes that have been defined.

Here's a list of of menu plan recipes for Rotation day 1:

Each line represents one menu plan recipe - a dish to be made for a specific meal on a specific Rotation day.

The Rotation day is listed in the first column, Day. The second column, Meal, lists the name of the meal. The Recipe column has the name of the recipe to be used. Category is the name of the category the recipe belongs to. Examples are 'Vegetarian Main Dish', 'Salad', 'Side dish', etc. These categories are user-defined.

The final column, Percentage, indicates the percentage of people this dish should be prepared for. This column is used in the calculation for ingredients, please see FIXME.

Searching for menu plan recipes¶

The search box at the top of the Menu plan recipes page can be used to search menu plan recipes. It is quite versatile, and allows for searching by Rotation day, Meal, Recipe, or even Category.

By default, the Menu plan recipes page lists the recipes for the first day of the rotation.

You can search for a day with the search box:

You can also use the links underneath the search box to select all recipes for a specific Rotation day:

Find all recipes with tofu in their name:

Or hazelnuts:

Find all recipes of category 'Side dish':