How do I add a miscellaneous item, such as just a single ingredient (not the whole recipe), to a menu plan?
Use the Add Item… button on the menu edit window to add individual items from your droplists (ingredient and miscellaneous item) to a meal plan. Alternatively, you may want to create a short recipe for certain individual items. As an example, let’s use “broccoli”. To add this to your menu plan, create a recipe (dish) called Broccoli, which has the ingredient broccoli in some unit and quantity. Then select this recipe as part of your menu plan. It is the same as having a separate add-in for broccoli in your meal plan. Creating a recipe for individual side dishes allows you to include small items with the side dish that you might otherwise overlook in your shopping list or nutrition analysis that you might use as a topping on broccoli (e.g., butter or melted cheese).
