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CookKeepBook helps you build ingredients, create recipes, and calculate real recipe costs from purchase data. You can start with a free account and add PLUS features later if needed.

Quick Start (first 10 minutes)

1. Create ingredients: Open Ingredient Details Setup
2. Add purchases: Open Add Purchase Section and enter at least one purchase per ingredient used.
3. Create recipes: Open New Recipe Section and add measured ingredients.
4. Check cost requirements: Open Cost Prerequisites before troubleshooting.
5. Fix unit mismatches: Open Manual Converter Section.

Core Guides

• Create Ingredients (Open Details)
• Create Recipes (Open New Recipe)
• Manage Categories
• Calculate Recipe Cost (Open N/A Troubleshooting)
• Use Yield Percentage
• Use Recipes as Ingredients

Planning and Imports

• Meal Planner and Shopping List (Open Shopping List Steps)
• Import Ingredients (PLUS, Open Step 1)

PLUS Guides

• Profit Margin and Alerts
• Allergen Tagging
• Nutritional Information (Open Recipe Troubleshooting)
• Duplicate/Scale Recipes
• Custom Recipe Printouts

Common Problems

• Cost shows N/A: check quantity, unit, purchase, and converter setup in Open N/A Troubleshooting.
• Recipe ingredient not available: verify the item exists and has not been filtered out by category/search.
• Nutrition summary missing ingredients (PLUS): review setup in Open Nutrition Troubleshooting.

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