Overview: Shopping Lists

In order for your Food Technician to purchase the ingredients that you require for your practical lessons they need a shopping list of ingredients that require purchasing for the upcoming week.

My Recipe Manager automatically creates this shopping list for you without any effort on your part providing the below requirements are adhered to:

1. Food orders are created in the correct manner.
2. If your school is using 'Week Starting' dates then only food orders that have the same 'Week Starting' date are ticked for inclusion in the shopping list report.
3. If your school is using 'Term Weeks' then only food orders that have the same 'Term Week' are ticked for inclusion in the shopping list report.

You can produce three types of shopping list reports:

• One which doesn’t depend on you maintaining any stock control and just lists the ingredients that need to be purchased. The menu for this is titled 'Shopping List'.
• One which doesn’t depend on you maintaining any stock control, includes a list of ingredients that need to be purchased and a column that displays the 'shop category' for those ingredients. The menu for this is titled 'Shopping List (with Shop Category)'.
• One that references the stock (ingredients) that you maintain in your storeroom through the stock control process. The menu for this is titled 'Shopping List (Stocktake)'.

Stock control is an optional feature i.e. you don't have to use it if you don't want to, if you don't have the time to or if you don't have a need for it. This feature was added into My Recipe Manager because some of the schools we spoke to were keen to track certain ingredients that they kept in their storeroom. To read more about stock control, how it works and what is required to maintain it please click here.