New member questions

[Ossie-Sharon]

Hi, Patricia. One cup of fluid is 240 ml. For solid foods, the gram weight varies. In general, dairy products and fats are like liquids, flours and nuts/seeds are 120 g, fruits are 150 g, vegetables average about 70 g, poultry/meat/fish average about 200 g, grain products (rice, pasta) are about 160 g cooked (30 g uncooked).

[bufight]

Just starting and had a question regarding cereals. Is Grape Nuts cereal compliant with this program. Thanks!

[Ossie-Sharon]

Hi, bufight. Yes, it is, though if you can find an organic alternative, it may be more advantageous. 1/4 cup is considered a “carb” exchange, roughly equal to a slice of bread or 1/2 cup cooked oatmeal.

[Klaassen]

How do I tag recipes I like for future reference?

[DaisyDew]

Hi Klaassen~ 🙂

At the top of (most pages) click on: Apps

For past formulated menus: Click on: Menu History

Choose a ‘Creation Date’ that you have created and click on “View Menu” – that will load your past selected menu items. By going through each of the days you may look for the recipe you desire. Just click on it and it will load the recipe. You may print this information out if you wish.

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If making a new weekly menu: From the “Apps” — Click on: “Menu Planner” – After you have made all your selections for Morning; Noon; Evening and Snack — click on “Finish”, and that will load-up your daily individualized menus.

At the top of this page in the right hand corner — by an icon of a ‘printer’ — click on ‘View Printable Version’.
At the top of this page (left hand corner) click on ‘Print Menu’.

On this printout you may make notes of any substitutions you’ve made (and other ‘stuff’) and (if you like) with a hi-lighter – circle any recipe you really like. And on the flip-side of the coin — make a note of what you don’t like. 😛

THEN: When you want that particular recipe again: At the top of (most) pages, click on “Recipes” – scroll-down to the “Search” box and type in the name of the recipe you want. What’s great about this feature is: It remembers all your queries and will give you a dropdown box for you to select what you are looking for when you type the ‘first’ letter of the recipe.

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In a software program on your PC (mine’s in WORD) you may copy the recipes to a Folder File and access your favs that way. When I get a page filled with the recipes I like, I print it out.

Hope this was/is helpful for you . . . 😛

[Ossie-Sharon]

Hi, Klaasen. You can also save recipes to your browser’s favorites.

[DaisyDew]

Hi Ossie . . . would you please explain the procedure to accomplish this?

[Ossie-Sharon]

Hi, DaisyDew. Depending on which browser you use, you can generally find the Favorites icon somewhere in or next to the address bar at the top of the page (usually a star). Click on it then and click on where it states “Add to Favorites,” and choose in which folder you would like to store the recipes.

[skinnyastrid49]

Hi Daisy Dew,
I pressed the ‘recipes’ tab and found some recipes I liked. Is it possible to move them into the menu planner? I’m not sure what to eat with the new recipe in order to get the proper combinations of carbohydrates, proteins, vegetables,…etc at each meal/snack.

I remember seeing that each recipe had the amount of carbs, proteins, etc. listed at the bottom of them, but I don’t know how much of each thing to have for meals or snacks. Can you help me, please? Thank you.

[skinnyastrid49]

Oh, sorry, that last request was not for Daisy Dew. I meant to ask the staff of the Trim Down Club. Silly me. Sorry!

[Ossie-Sharon]

Hi, SkinnyAstrid. Though you can’t currently more the recipes into the Menu Planner, you definitely can use the “View Menu Exchanges” in one of your existing menus to see what you are allotted for snacks in terms of carb/fat/protein etc. exchanges. Then you can compare those to the recipes. The match does not have to be perfect, of course, just approximately.
Also, when you create your menu, you can select a similar recipe from the lists in the Menu Planner as a place-saver, and then just swap in what you actually want.

[DaisyDew]

Ossie . . . OMG!!!

How utterly and downright SIMPLE that was! 🙂 Thank you so-o-o-o much!! I will reserve using my browser’s file (Recipes from TDC) when my PC is on. But, I do like having a ‘hard-copy’ for quick reference. This ‘browser’ method will come in ‘real’ handy when I’m in a hurry and want to copy later. Again — thanksabunch!! 😛

Janie

[skinnyastrid49]

Thank you, Ossie, that helps a lot.

Astrid

[skinnyastrid49]

Hi Ossie, in the recipe for gluten-free coffee almond cookies, they ask for 1 tbsp of espresso powder. I looked for this in the coffee section of the grocery store, the natural foods section, and the bulk section. I couldn’t find it. Is there a substitute for this ingredient or could you tell me where to find it, please?

Thank you so much!
Astrid

[skinnyastrid49]

Oh, also, I cannot eat peanuts and I’m wondering if using Wow! Butter is an okay alternative to peanut butter. If not, does almond butter taste like peanut butter?

All these new foods! So much to learn!
Thank you.

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