Cost Database - You can add cost information to all your Recipe ingredients by using the NutriBase Cost Database. To access this function, click the “Home” Tab to get to the Home Window. (You do not access the Cost Database from the Recipe Window - you access it from the Home window.) To access the Cost Database, click the NutriBase Menu Icon, then select the Cost Database option.

Select the source of the ingredients to which you will be adding cost information. A source can be a Recipe Folder, a PFI Folder, or a Meal Folder. Then add your cost information. This method is generally the most efficient and fastest way to add cost data to NutriBase. But it is not the only way…

You can also add cost information to any food item that you see in the nutrient database. To do this, locate the food item, highlight it, right click, then select the “Item cost” option.

To add the cost of an ingredient in a Recipe, open the Recipe, highlight the ingredient, right click, then select the “Add ingredient cost” option. This could be handy if you already costed all the ingredients previously, but you are adding a totally new ingredient to the Recipe today.

Notes:

To display the costing information for each ingredient in a Recipe, open a Recipe, right click over the ingredient listing, then select the “Show cost” option… this will add a column of cost data to your Recipe window.