Side dishes
Plan a main dish with a side you choose each time, like curry with rice one week and with naan the next.
The idea
Many dishes come with a side you choose each time: chili with rice or bread, fish with potatoes or salad. Instead of a recipe for every pair, a main dish leaves room for a side dish, and you pick the side when you plan or shop.
It takes two things: a placeholder in the main dish, and side dish recipes that fit it.
Leave room for a side dish
- Open the main dish and press “Add Ingredient”.
- As its description, write the kind of side dish, e.g. “Rice”.
- Set the unit to “fixing” and the amount to 1.
- Press “Save”.
- Two sides, like “Rice” and “Salad”? Add a placeholder for each. With amounts of 1 and 1, each side is planned for half of the servings; with 2 and 1, rice gets two thirds.
- Placeholders aren't bought: shopping lists get the side dish's ingredients instead.
Write a side dish recipe
- Write a recipe for the side, e.g. “Basmati rice”, with its amounts for the servings in “Base Qty”.
- Tick “Fixing?” next to its name.
- In “Tags”, add the placeholder's name as a tag, e.g. “Rice”.
- Press “Save”.
- The tag has to match the placeholder's name. Upper and lower case don't matter, nor do spaces and dashes: “Basmati Reis” matches the tag “basmati-reis”.
- One placeholder can have many side dishes: tag them all “Rice”, and you pick one each time.
How the amounts are worked out
Greezy scales a side dish to the servings you cook and to its placeholder's share. Say a curry has the placeholder “Rice” with the amount 1, and the rice recipe is written for 2 servings: planned for 4 servings, the curry brings twice the rice recipe.
With two placeholders, “Rice” (1) and “Salad” (1), each side gets half: for 4 servings, 2 servings of rice and 2 of salad.
Pick the side dish
Wherever a main dish is planned, Greezy asks for its sides: in a recipe group, when you put the recipe on a shopping list or shop it now, and when you add it on the list itself. It offers the side dishes tagged with the placeholder's name.
The list of recipes hides side dishes until you tick “Show Fixings”.
- A recipe group can only be saved once every placeholder has a side dish; the missing ones turn red.
- Nothing to pick? Write a side dish recipe and tag it with the placeholder's name.