Plan a Whole Menu
Making things easier for a single dish is great. But what if you want to plan out a whole meal, or even a whole weeks’ worth of eating.
The Evening Inn is here to help with our unique MenuPlanner feature.
As you find the recipes you want you can add them to your planner at the click of a button. The planner lets you build up any number of menu plans using any number of recipes.
As you add a recipe to one of your plans you simply tell the system how many people you want to cook for and what time you want the dish on the table. The Planner will then calculate the ingredients and work out the times for you adding these to the recipes already set for that menu.
Lets plan out a dinner party for 6 to see it in action…
Lets try a soup for starter…
We’re going to make a new plan called “John, Mary, Jean and Tony Dinner Party” so we know which one is which.
We want to start eating at 8pm on Saturday.
That’s done.
Now add in the main course at 8:30 and the dessert at 9:10. The system already knows we are building up this menu so we simply add more dishes from the recipe system or from our favourites.
Everything is now planned – as easy as that!!
Next we need to use the Planner to help us organise for the meal – more on the next page…
How it works...
(click any step for more info)
‘Hi there, I just wanted to write and say how impressed with your website I am. I’m planning a dinner party for 6 people on Saturday and I’ve been able to choose all the things I want to cook using your site. One brilliant thing is how you have links to ingredients that some might term as more unusual and the link takes you to a picture of the product so you know what you’re looking for if you’re shopping in the local supermarket. I will definitely be using your site again, thank you very much!’
Natasha Moffat-Taylor, Defra
‘Dear Alison, last night we went to our friends house for a meal that had been arranged a while ago. Now, we know about your website and expected our friend to cook something from it….what we didn’t expect was it to look exactly as it does in the photo of the recipe sheet!!! We had a fantastic meal, all three courses were absolutely delicious and added to that the fact that he’d supplied Tequila Sunrise cocktails (complete with umbrellas!) was just brilliant too! For the starter we had – Carnitas and the Hot Habernero Salsa (yum!), the main course was the Spiced Pork and Tortilla Layer with a green salad – this was so fantastic!! It’s not like anything we’d every had before and just so tasty!! And for dessert we had Iced Strawberry Margarita Pie. This was the perfect dessert for such a wonderful meal. I’m so impressed with the recipes that I’ve logged and registered as a member. Mark showed us the folder that he’s got for the recipes and the stand it goes on – what can I say – ingenious!! Keep up the good work and congratulations on a wonderful idea!
Best Wishes’
Paula Hampson, Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent