Below the ingredient table on every recipe are the details that help you find a recipe later, plan around allergies, and give your cooks what they need.
Dietary information, instructions, categories, tags and photo on a recipe
Meal contains
Tick each dietary restriction or allergen this recipe contains, for example Eggs or Nuts. When you build a meal plan and say which restrictions are in your group, recipes that conflict show a ⚠ warning, and you can hide them with the Doesn't contain filter.
The list of restrictions comes from Settings → Dietary restrictions, so you can add the ones your groups need. See Managing dietary restrictions.
Recipe instructions
Type the method in plain text. Instructions appear with the recipe on the meal plan page and in PDF and Word exports.
Tip: Wholesum scales the ingredient quantities, but not the words in your instructions. Avoid writing amounts in the instructions ("add 2 cups of rice"). Write "add the rice" instead, so the instructions stay right for any group size.
Don't have instructions yet? Olive can draft them from your ingredient list. See Drafting recipes with Olive.
Meal Category
Tick one or more meal categories, such as Breakfast, Dinner or Dessert. You can filter My recipes, and the recipe list when you build a meal plan, by category.
Tags
Tags are your own labels, such as no heat required, quick or backpacking trip. Type them under Add tags, separated by commas. Each tag can be up to 30 characters. Tags are handy for things categories don't cover, like the type of trip or season. To rename, merge or delete tags across all your recipes, see Managing recipe tags.
Photo
Click Add photo to upload a JPEG or PNG. Click the photo again to change or remove it.
Menu descriptions
If client-facing menus are turned on for your account, you'll also see a Menu descriptions box. Use it for a guest-friendly description of the dish. See Client-facing Menus.
Click Save when you're done.
