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Recipes
Recipes are the point where stock becomes useful: the app can tell you what you could cook right now, and put the rest on the shopping list.
Each ingredient is either
- linked to items from the catalogue — then its availability can be checked and it can be ordered, or
- free text ("salt", "a pinch of love") — shown but never checked.
An ingredient may accept several alternative items. Link three brands of eggs to one ingredient and their stock is added together; whichever you happen to have counts. Use + Alternative item to add more.
For every linked ingredient with an amount, Proviant compares what the recipe needs against what you have, converting within the metric families (g ↔ kg, ml ↔ l). If everything is covered, the recipe carries a green cookable badge in the list and on its page.
Ingredients it cannot judge are shown as such rather than silently assumed:
- Stock cannot be checked (unit) — the recipe asks for grams, the item is counted in pieces. No sensible conversion exists.
- ingredients without an amount, or without a linked item.
The − and + buttons above the ingredient list scale every quantity. The base recipe is noted next to it, so you can always see what the original was. Scaling also changes what the shopping button will order.
The button under the ingredients puts everything missing into your Picnic basket, rounded up to whole packs — if a recipe needs 300 g and the pack is 500 g, one pack is ordered.
Ingredients without a Picnic link cannot be ordered; the button counts only those that can, and says so when the remainder cannot be helped.
Suggestion rolls a random recipe. Anything cooked in the last 14 days is skipped, and cookable recipes are slightly preferred. Filter by tag first if you are in the mood for something specific.
If everything has been cooked recently, the cooldown is relaxed for that one roll rather than leaving you with nothing — the page says so when it happens.
Cooked today on a recipe (or Let's cook this on a suggestion) records the date. That is the only thing feeding the cooldown, so it is worth pressing.
Recipes → Picnic import takes recipes from Picnic's recipe pages including servings, ingredients, steps and tip. Ingredients arrive as free text; link them to items afterwards to make the recipe checkable and orderable.
Picnic's recipe pages are undocumented and change without notice. The parser is deliberately cautious: when it cannot make sense of a page it imports nothing rather than guessing. Recipe images are not publicly accessible and are therefore not imported.
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