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Menu wizard

The Menu Wizard generates a complete cycle menu from a single form. Instead of adding each day and meal by hand, you tell the wizard how many weeks the menu covers, which days of the week each week includes and which meals each day holds, and it builds the whole structure for you. This is the fastest way to start a weekly or monthly cycle menu for a school, hospital, or other institutional food service.

Generate a cycle menu​

  1. Click Menu Templates in the sidebar, then click MENU Wizard.
  2. Enter a Menu Name. This field is required, and the name must be different from your account's other menu templates.
  3. Enter How Many Weeks?, from 1 to 99.
  4. Tick the Days of the Week each week covers. All seven days start ticked. Click Weekdays to keep Monday to Friday only, or Every day to tick all seven again. At least one day is required.
  5. Select the meals for each day from the Meals list, for example Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. The list holds the standard meals and any meals you have added under Tools then Meals.
  6. Optionally select a Category and a Calorie Level.
  7. Click Create Template. The template is saved and opens in the menu editor on the Add Meals step.

The generated template contains one day for every day in the cycle, named by week and weekday, for example "Week 1 - Monday", "Week 1 - Tuesday", and so on, with the meals you selected already added to each day.

Fill in the foods​

Use the menu editor to add foods to each meal. Copying and pasting days is a quick way to fill a long cycle with repeating patterns. You can leave the editor at any point; the template is already saved and listed under My Data in the list of menu templates.