The Ingredients page is your ingredient ledger. It's one list of every ingredient used in your recipes, with where you buy it, which store department it's in, notes, and what it costs. These details flow into every shopping list.
To open it, click Ingredients in the top menu, or Go to ingredients → on your Home page.
Ingredients are created automatically when you add them to recipes, so you never add them here directly. If the page is empty, add a recipe first.
The Ingredients page
What's missing at a glance
The boxes at the top count your ingredients and flag gaps: missing a price, missing a department, missing a store and unused in any recipe. Click a box, or a chip such as Missing price, to show only those ingredients.
Showing only ingredients that are missing a price
A coloured dot before each name shows its status. Green means complete, and amber means it's missing a price or department.
Finding ingredients
- Search Ingredient: type a name and click Search.
- All recipes: show only the ingredients used in one recipe.
- Location (Enterprise): if you have several kitchen locations, choose which one's stores and prices to show.
- Per page: show 20, 50, 100 or 200 ingredients per page.
The columns
| Column | What it is |
|---|---|
| Item | The ingredient name. You can edit it here. |
| Meals | The recipes that use it. Click one to open that recipe. |
| Store | Where you buy it. Suggestions appear as you type. |
| Ingredient notes | Anything your shoppers should know, such as "buy slightly green". |
| Department | The store section, such as Dairy or Fruits & Vegetables. Shopping lists can be sorted by it. |
| Cost | The price you pay. Click Set price or the price to change it. See Setting ingredient prices. |
| Actions | The Manage menu, with dietary rules, rounding and purchasing details. |
Editing and saving
You can edit names, stores, notes and departments right in the table. As soon as you change something, a bar appears at the bottom saying You have unsaved changes. Click Save changes when you're done.
The unsaved changes bar
If you try to leave the page or change the filters with unsaved edits, Wholesum asks whether to save them first.
Renaming an ingredient to a name that already exists won't work. That name is left as it was, and the rest of your changes are saved. To combine the two ingredients, merge them. See Finding and merging duplicate ingredients.
The Manage menu
Click Manage on any row:
The Manage menu
- Dietary: which dietary restrictions this ingredient conflicts with, and an automatic substitute.
- Round (when ingredient rounding is on): how to round this ingredient on shopping lists.
- Ingredient Info: preferred brand, item URL, item ID, aisle and purchase unit conversion.
All three are explained in Ingredient rounding.
Selecting ingredients
Tick the box at the start of one or more rows to open the selection bar:
The selection bar
- Update ingredient (one selected): rename it or change its unit type. See Changing an ingredient's name or unit type.
- Merge N ingredients (two or more selected): combine duplicates into one.
- Update costs with Olive: let Olive look up current prices. See Updating ingredient prices with Olive.
- Clear selection: untick everything.
Video walkthrough
This video shows how to add stores, departments and notes to your ingredients. Some screens have been updated since it was recorded.
