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Cross referencing a weekly menu list with a grocery list
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 7:45:51 PM UTC-8, mpatel6 wrote:
So every Sunday, my wife decides what we're going to be eating for
breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner for the entire week. So right
now, I've created a "Weekly Menu" Tab, which has the days of the week
across the top, and breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner down the
side. Within the table, she can choose an item from a drop down list
I've created which pull from a "Meal Options" tab.
So the next step is that I've begun entering in her recipes into a
"Recipes" tab. What I'd like to happen is that once she has chosen, from
the "Weekly Menu" tab, let's say Spaghetti for Lunch on Monday and
Fajitas for Dinner on Monday. I'd like a new tab "Groceries Needed" tab,
to begin to populate what groceries she will need to buy for Spaghetti
and Fajitas.
The next challenge is combining similar ingredients (like if I need 5
tomatoes for the spaghetti, and 2 tomatoes for the fajitas), I'd like
the "Groceries Needed" tab to output 7 tomatoes. Please help! :)
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mpatel6
Sounds like a job for dependant drop downs
Give this a look...
http://blog.contextures.com/archives...el-drop-downs/
Regards,
Howard
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