Available on Personal, Professional and Enterprise plans, and during your trial. Turn on Substitute ingredients in Settings first.
Substitutes tell Wholesum what to use for people who can't eat an ingredient. For example: "for anyone avoiding eggs, use egg replacer instead of eggs". When you build a meal plan and say how many people have each restriction, Wholesum adjusts the shopping list for you.
- Click the circular-arrows icon in the Substitute column of the ingredient you want to replace.
- Under For individuals that have the following dietary restriction, tick the restriction(s) this substitute is for.
- Under With the following ingredient(s), click Add ingredient and enter the quantity, unit and name of each replacement.
- Leave this empty if you just want to leave the ingredient out for those people, without a replacement.
- Close the window and Save the recipe.
Setting up a substitute ingredient
Enter substitute quantities for the whole recipe, as if everyone were eating the substitute. The actual amounts are worked out during meal planning, based on how many people have each restriction.
Dietary rules set on the Ingredients page
If you've already told Wholesum that an ingredient conflicts with a restriction, and which substitute to use, the recipe offers it when you add that ingredient. You'll see "Use substitute as the restriction substitute?" Click Apply to accept. See Ingredient rounding.
How substitutes work in a meal plan
- When you create a meal plan, tick each dietary restriction in the group and slide the bar to how many people have it.
- Wholesum works out how much of each original ingredient and each substitute to buy, and adds them to the shopping list.
- Under Current meal plan, recipes with substitutes have a button where you can change how many people need the substitute for that particular meal.
Example: you're feeding 20 people and 2 can't eat gluten. If your sandwich recipe substitutes gluten-free bread for bread, the shopping list includes bread for 18 people and gluten-free bread for 2.
Sometimes a whole different meal is easier than swapping ingredients. See Substitution Meals.
