When creating menus in PrimeroEdge, all ingredients and recipes used within the menu must be entered into PrimeroEdge. This includes all ingredients with a recipe, even when it's something as simple as flour. To follow the flow of information input, an ingredient is the first step to creating a recipe and then a menu item. This is relevant whether it be a single ingredient or multi-ingredient recipe. There are thousands of ingredients found in the various databases. Before you create a new ingredient, you want to perform a database search to see if it's already available. We always want to search the PDE-Shared Database first as the ingredients in this database have more detailed information, documentation and are easier to find. This course will walk you through how to search the database and best practices for optimizing search results. For this course, we recommend that you also have a second browser page open to access PrimeroEdge. Activities are built into the training to give you hands-on experience.

This course will show you how to create an ingredient and then turn it into a single-ingredient recipe. A best practice would be to turn each ingredient into a single ingredient recipe. Following this process will assist you as you move through the creation of menus. You will also learn how to copy ingredients and single-ingredient recipes from shared databases in order to make your own modifications.

Welcome to the Recipe section of our Training!

This course will walk you through building a Menu in PrimeroEdge.

A menu cycle consists of 3-7 menus grouped together, so that a weekly Nutritional Analysis can be completed. This ensures compliance with meal pattern requirements.  Menu cycles can be created for one week or multiple weeks.

This course will instruct you on conducting and troubleshooting menu analysis, using the tips & tools provided to ensure compliant menus.