Community Cookbook

The Community Cookbook is a utility that allows customers to share individual recipes with other districts. These recipes can then be downloaded by other districts, rated, and used in their meals and menus. This is an easy way to incorporate new recipes into your cycle menus.

Filters

You can use as many or as few filters as you want.

Enter a description in the Recipe Description field if you have a specific recipe in mind.
Select a rating option from the Rating dropdown list.
- The rating is the number of stars districts have given the recipe on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the highest.
- Recipes with the highest ratings will display first in the Search Results Grid.

Select a district name from the District dropdown list.
- This can be used if you’ve seen a particular recipe in one of Meal Plus’ blogs and want to see if that district has shared it.

Select a state from the State dropdown list.
Enter a contributor’s name if you know the name of Contributor.
Select an Alliance ingredient (NC or SC) group from the Alliance Ingredients dropdown list.
To enter an ingredient in the Ingredient field, click in the field so the following box appears:You can use as many or as few filters as you want.
- Select Includes if you want the Ingredient you are entering in the text field to be included in the recipe or,
- Select Excludes if you want the Ingredient you are entering in the text field to be included in the recipe.
- Enter an ingredient name in the Ingredient text field and click Add to add the term to the search. You can repeat this process to include or exclude more ingredients.
  - Highlight an ingredient in the text box and click Remove to delete the ingredient from the search.
- When you are finished adding search ingredients, click Close.

To select components to be included in the recipe, click in the Components field so the following box appears:
- Check the boxes by the Components to be included in the recipe search.

To select any allergens to not be included in the recipe search, click in the Allergens field so the following box appears:

Enter a manufacturer in the Manufacturer field.
Click .
Recipe results will display in the Search Results grid.

Search Results Grid

Select a recipe by highlighting it and click . You can also preview a recipe by double-clicking on it in the Search Results grid.
- If the recipe has stars and an (X), the recipe has been downloaded by other districts and has been rated.
- If the recipe has next to it, it has not been downloaded or rated yet.

Rating a Recipe

Click the button to open the ratings screen.
Use the page numbers or the and buttons to page through the results.
- Each page displays 100 recipes and when you click the Preview button, these 100 recipes display in the upper grid.

Preview Recipe

The Header displays which page of the Search Results the recipe is from so you know which page of recipes is listed in the grid below.

This screen is read-only and displays similar to the Manage Recipe screen so you can review the Ingredients, Components, etc.

The upper grid displays the 100 recipes from the page the selected recipe was on. If you would like to browse more than these 100 recipes, you will need to go back to the main Community Cookbook screen and select a recipe from a different page.

You can click on each of the tabs to review the recipe information.

Click when you are ready to download the recipe.

Click Yes to complete the download. An ingredient matching screen appears.

Match Ingredient Screen

This screen displays the ingredients used in the Cookbook recipe and allows you to select the ingredients to use in your downloaded recipe.

You can use the pre-selected ingredient, select from other existing ingredients or create a new one based on the Cookbook ingredient.

It ranks the possible matches based on a point system and color-codes them to indicate the likelihood of a match, and pre-selects the one that it considers the best match.

HOW IT WORKS: The system searches your local ingredients and finds possible matches based on criteria including ingredient description, nutrient values and base weight.

Please note that the best match is only a suggestion. You may have a better match that does not get selected because of differences such as the wording of the description. We recommend that you use the Compare Ingredients button to review the details.

Sample Match Recipe Ingredient Screen

There are three ways to add the ingredients from this recipe to your database:

1) Match Ingredient in Middle Grid

2) Lookup Ingredient

3) Import Cookbook Ingredient

	Upper Section Displays Recipe Info
	Middle Grid Displays matches between Community Cookbook Ingredient and Local Ingredient
	Lower Grid Displays complete list of possible matches
	Measure Section Displays and allows user to match measures of ingredients
	Additional Buttons Undo Changes button Import All ingredients button Compare Ingredients button

Click to download the recipe and add it to your district’s database.
A Data Accuracy Disclaimer screen will display:

After reading the disclaimer, check the I agree to the terms box to verify that you understand you are downloading and accepting the recipe as was shared by another district.
- Click Do not show this message again if you want to accept these terms for all future recipes that may be downloaded.
- Click the link to view the Education Management Systems’ license agreement.

Click OK.

You will now be able to find the recipe from your Manage Recipe screen.

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MNU Version 9, revised 03/2018