Search results matching tag 'Nutritional Info'

3 problems. printing, importing, and ingredients

satchmosmom — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:21:21 GMT

I hate to bother you with this, but I truely have looked everywhere I can find in the FAQs and Message Board etc, and I'm getting nowhere.

I printed out my first recipe today and there was absolutely no border on the printout. It was so wide that it cut off all my ingredient amounts. How do i adjust the printing data so that it will print out on 8.5x11 size paper? Hmm.

Also, I tried to import a recipe that I have in Microsoft word 2007, student edition format. It wouldn't find the recipe but gave me an opportunity to find it. I did locate the recipe and when I clicked on it I got a message that said I probably need the Microsoft Data Access Component, free download, see FAQs. I did that, and downloaded the MDAC. When I started to install, it said that the components in the MDAC are already in my version of Windows. Help! Now I can't even open BO screen. I click open and it takes me to the My Computer screen. I click on Shared Documents, opening up to click on MBO recipes. I click on that and then get the blank page for the recipe that I was initially looking for. I just go around in a circles. Help.

One more thing. one of the things I liked most when I found MBO was that I could determine the nutrients in each recipe. I have noticed that in some recipes the nutrients are not complete because of the way they are written. I'm amazed that I figured that out! But I also notice that some common things are not recognized... Not a problem, if I can enter a new ingredient myself, with all the nutrients for that ingredient. Is this possible? I am on a special diet and it would be absolutely wonderful if that is possible.

I am really excited about learning to use this software, but I am beginning to get a little frustrated and feel like I am already fighting a loosing battle. : (

I hope you can help. Thanks

nutrition not working

acr1127 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:21:39 GMT

i have a recipe for which i'm trying to get the nutrional analysis. this 16 serving recipe has 2 cups of sugar in it. the sugar is a standard ingredient and when i checked it was linked to the USDA info. when i do the analysis, the recipe says it has 51 calories! 2 cups of sugar divided by 16 is nearly 100 calories, something is wrong here. is there something else i need to do to get the ingredients to display the nutritional info correctly?

oh, and by the by, computerized nutritional analysis should not be this cumbersome. i could have looked up each ingredient on the web and figured it out by hand in the time it is taking me to do this. perhaps you could have a tutorial or a new programmer? it is just not, in any way, shape or form, intuitive.

thanks for your time.

Nutritional analysis Seriously Wrong

drewtiger13 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:38:11 GMT

Something in the nutritional database is seriously messed up! i imported the "Pork Steak Bake" recipe from the website, since it was simple. i tried the auto link, and it did not work, so i linked each ingredient, paying careful attention to the quantities of each, ie grams in the links i was making.

Still, the program tells me that 4 servings of this contain calories: 687257%/13745136 !!!!!!!

seriously, i want to make a crack about this, but 13 million calories is so far off the planet i can't think of anything!

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Errors on nutrition analysis

tacomadrag0n@email.com — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:47:39 GMT

I keep getting HUGE errors in the nutritional analysis of my recipes. I have checked the Nutrient Information for ingredients and they are, for the most part correct (although some of them omit information). I have gone through and added the nutrients by hand and with a calculator and the analysis for the recipe will be off by as much as 5x!

I purchased this program particularly for managing my brittle diabetes and mistakes in the nutrient information can mean a serious medical problem for me.

The program also appears to have great difficulty finding ingredients even though I have used it a dozen times before. When I try to find an ingredient for linking to nutrient information, the program cannot find it so I have to go through full list to find it. I am listing ingredients the way they are named on the list, so there is no reason for this ohter than a bug.

Another thing that is irritating but doesn't render the program unuseable is that I am unable to delete recipe boxes. I have gone to my folders directory and deleted and renamed files but the old files and/or names still show up when I try to open a file.

If there is no fix, please refund my money.

Tarolyn

Where's the nutrient info?

horseplay — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:21:38 GMT

I just purchased BigOven software largely because it would provide nutrient/calorie info for my recipes. So far, I've entered 5 recipes and not one is complete with nutrition info because it is "missing nutrient info" for about 50% of the items I've entered. The items seem to be in the database, but with "missing nutrient info"; some of the items I've encountered this way are very common - soy sauce, onion, tomato, white beans, venison,.... What's the deal? If this can't be fixed, the software does me no good - I want my money back!

Nutritional Data

dewine — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:40:31 GMT

How do I add my own nutritional data? The list in the software doesn't have many common ingredients such as Splenda or brown sugar. I need this information to track carbs, one of the main reasons I want to write my own recipes.

Incorrect nutrition "auto links"

ReneeM — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:27:31 GMT

Often, when I enter a new recipe, bigoven does nutrition "auto links". This seems convenient.

Often, though, the links are bizarre.

I just created a new recipe, starting with 1 1/2 cups of "dried apples".

Bigoven linked this to "RICE,BROWN,LONG-GRAIN,CKD", which has a rather different nutritional profile.

I created that new recipe because I had some big surprises when I imported a granola recipe with the following ingredients:

6 cups regular rolled oats (not instant)
1/3 cup ground flaxseed or chopped walnuts
2 tbsp Canola oil
2 tbsp Honey or brown sugar (or to taste)
1 cup dried fruit: raisins blueberries, cranberries, or papaya
1 1/2 cups dried apples chopped into 1/4 inch pieces

I wound up with the following nutritional links:

"regular rolled oats" --> "GARLIC,RAW" (6 grams)

"ground flaxseed or chopped walnuts" --> "GINGER ROOT,RAW" (7 grams)

"dried fruit; raisins" --> "LETTUCE,COS OR ROMAINE,RAW" (224 grams)

"dried apples" --> "SOY SAU MADE FROM SOY&WHEAT (SHOYU),LO NA" (16 grams)

The canola oil and the honey llinked appropriately.

Why will it link "dried apples" to soy sauce one time and cooked brown rice another?

Is there any setting I can use to tell bigoven not to try so hard?

How do I figure out nutritional values?

beccreations — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:36:57 GMT

My entire reason for trying BigOven was for the ability to figure out nutritional values on recipes I enter as well as ones you have listed. I can’t figure out how to do this. Can you help?

Nutrition info

Pam — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:28:24 GMT

I am a new 'trial-deluxe' user. I would like to be able to use a program to help with meal plans focusing on weight control. In the trial download there is not nutrition info unless I go ingredient by ingredient in each recipe and link each one. Is this standard? Or are they linked in the purchased copy? Also, there are very few recipes in the course screens and none in the recipe or main igredient boxes. Do I have to link them somehow or are they linked in the correct boxes in the purchased copy?

Pam

Re: Printing wrong nutrition facts

p2stone — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:38:04 GMT

I'm glad to know it isn't me. I finally decided to check the message board to see if anyone else has had this experience.

I noticed today that it appears, at printing, to add Total Carbs and Other Carbs. For instance, in a new recipe in the edit view, the carbs appear as follows:
Total Carbs 8%/14
Other Carbs 9

When I print, it shows: Total Carbs 24

I have the most updated ver 1.8.976