Improved shopping list

[aaguilera83]

Hello Harry,

First of all, thank you very much for your incredible work so far with ChickenPing.

I just have 2 comments for the shopping list. Let's see this use case as an example:

I have all my recipes in the software and, every week, I build next week's menu. Then, I scale all the recipes in the weekly menu plan. The problem comes when I have to make the shopping list.

To be honest, if I've made all the effort to insert my recipes in the software and to build the menu, I expect there to be an easy way to generate the shopping list for days XX to YY. But, as far as I'm aware of, there is none.

I then decide to go with the painful process of adding each and every dish manually to the shopping list but, again, I find major a problem: I cannot (or I don't know how to) define the serving size and each dish is aggregated to the shopping list with the number of servings that the recipe is buil in.

If only the first point would be solved, I'd be more than happy to pay for an, otherwise, excelent software.

Do you think this is possible to integrate in the short term?

Thank you very much,

Alberto

[aaguilera83]

Attached an example of the interface I'm proposing.

[Harry Jennerway]

You can print each date individually by hitting print in the meal planner. Recipes should be scaled. Is this what you mean?

[aaguilera83]

I cant find to print the shopping list from the meal planner. If you hit print in the meal planner, you just get the meals plan for that day.

[Harry Jennerway]

After looking into this, it's already done. Just click a start date, hold shift, then click an end date.

See Printing a Shopping List

[aaguilera83]

You are completly right! I didn't realize of that option. (Even if it's not 100% natural or user friendly ), it's there! Thanks for your answer and keep the good work!

[aaguilera83]

One question. If from the menu planner, I can print a shopping list with all the ingredients I need without any preview, but can I add all the ingredients to a shopping list to edit it before printing? And can I have a preview of the shopping list before printing?

[Harry Jennerway]

I wanted to finish this today so I didn't have chance to add print preview for shopping lists printed from the meal planner (yet).

[aaguilera83]

I completly understand! You did an awesome job with 1.67. I've already downloaded and installed it.

What about adding all the ingredients to a shopping list to edit it before printing directly from the menu planner? Is that currently possible or, if not, do you think it could be integrated in future releases?

[Harry Jennerway]

I'll get thinking on what works best.

[Harry Jennerway]

ChickenPing 1.70 adds:

• Printing of meals for a range of dates
• Creation of shopping lists for a date range.