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Adding Meals and Recipes to your Planner

Adding Meals
You can easily add meals and recipes to your planner by using either copy and paste, or drag and drop. You can add recipes to a day, or to meals within a day.

To add a meal to a planner day:

The meals table displays the list of available meals available for the planner, and it also lets you add and delete meals. The built-in meals cannot be deleted or changed, but additional meals can be added. To add a meal just press the "+" button at the bottom of the list. To delete a meal select a meal and choose the "-" button.

The default times (the times used whenever you create an instance of a meal in the planner) for meals can be set in the meals drawer by clicking on the clock icon and choosing a time. Times are used primarily when you send your data to iCal. When your planner is synced, meals that have times will be placed at those times in your calendar. Recipes that aren't part of meals will be placed at noon.

Adding Recipes
Adding recipes to your planner is simple: copy one or more recipes from any MacGourmet recipe box list and select a meal or day, and then choose Edit > Paste, or just drag and drop one or more recipes from a recipe box list to a meal or day in your planner.

Once in your planner, meals and recipes can ordered however desired, just drag and drop the items from one place in the planner to another. Recipes can be moved from one meal to another or from one day to another in the same way.

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