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Subject: Help with Meal Planning

I am trying to decide if I will buy this software. But I am having trouble with the meal planning function. I cannot enter an entire menu, only recipes. Is that a limitation on the trial version? Or is is simply something the software won't do.
 
How do you cope with that limitation and still make the planning function useful?
 
 
How do you

betty.allen1

betty.allen1 : 42w 2d ago

In the full version, I just click on the calendar, and drag recipes onto the days (in bogoven help, Search for "plan your meals in advance").  I don't know about the trial version, but I'm sure you can get an answer in the FAQ or help forum .  Steve seems to be pretty responsive there.

ReneeM

ReneeM : 42w 2d ago

Thanks, Renee:
 
I will try the two links you supplied.
 
My problems is that a recipe is not a menu. A menu plan includes everything that will be served at a meal but this planner limits me to nothing more than recipes. Many of the things I serve at a meal are things for which I do not need a recipe. 
 
To make the menu planner effective I want to put everything I will be using at a meal and use that to create my shopping list. For example, along with recipes I want to use, I would list beverages, condiments, side dishes for which I don't need recipes, etc.
 
I thought I had found the perfect softwrare and was ready to buy. Otherwise, BigOven is great.
 
 

betty.allen1

betty.allen1 : 42w 2d ago

 I have the exact same problem.  I was all set to buy, but now I'm not really sure, and I don't really want to buy something that's not going to fill the number-one function for which I want it.

 

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tracebooks : 28w 5d ago

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