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Adding and editing ingredients

PanProfit keeps a list of everything you buy, each item once, with the price you pay. Recipes use that list, so when a price changes you update it in one place and every recipe follows.

Add an ingredient

1. Go to the Ingredients tab and tap New.
2. Choose Ingredient (it goes into the recipe) or Packaging (boxes, bags, jars, labels: what you buy by the pack and use one by one).
3. Fill in:
   • Name, like "All-purpose flour".
   • Package size and Unit: what the package you buy holds, in the unit you buy it in. A 5 lb bag is 5 and lb.
   • Package price: what you paid for that package.
   • Where you buy it (optional): it groups your shopping list by store.
4. Tap Save.

You can also create an ingredient while you write a recipe: type its name in a line and tap New ingredient: ….

Units: buy in one, cook in another

Save each ingredient in the unit you buy it in, and use whatever unit your recipe says. Next to the amount of each recipe line there is a list of units, and PanProfit converts.

• Weight with weight and volume with volume always work: butter bought by the pound used in oz, milk bought by the gallon used in cups.
• Cups and spoons of something bought by weight (flour by the pound, sugar by the kilo) need what a cup of it weighs. Common ingredients already know it, and the line shows it as "1 cup = 120 g". For anything else, PanProfit asks once.
• Butter can also be used in sticks.
• Things you count, like eggs or boxes, use ea (each): a dozen eggs is 12 and ea.

If you need a unit that is not on the list, like "bunch", choose Other (type it) and write it. Recipes then use that same unit, without conversion.

In Settings, Units chooses whether US units (lb, oz, cups) or metric ones (kg, g, ml) come first in the lists. It never changes your saved ingredients, and you can always mix both.

Usable %

In a recipe line, Usable % is how much of what you buy ends up in the recipe. If peels, cores or trimmings go in the trash, write the share you keep: 75 if you throw away a quarter. PanProfit then counts the cost of the whole ingredient. Leave 100 when nothing is wasted.

Edit or delete

• In Ingredients, tap Edit on an item to change anything. A new price applies to every recipe that uses it.
• In a recipe, the pencil under the ingredient's name opens the same form.
• An ingredient that some recipe uses can't be deleted: PanProfit tells you which recipes, so you can remove it from them first.
• Prices you haven't updated in over 2 months are marked, so you remember to check them.