🍽️ Menu Planner Highlight Improvements

🍽️ Menu Planner Highlight Improvements

Welcome to the new and improved Menu Planner Highlight!
You now have more powerful ways to search, filter, and spotlight what’s on the menu — whether it’s an ingredient, a recipe, or just the term “chicken.”

✨ What You Can Highlight

1. A specific ingredient in your event items

2. Any recipe that uses a specific ingredient

3. A specific recipe in your event items

4. Any recipe that contains a specific subrecipe

5. Items (recipes or ingredients) with a specific category tag

6. Items that match a key term — for example, search for "chicken" to find anything with that word in its name or component tree

🔍 Search by Product or Recipe Component Name

Want to highlight a product in your plan, or find recipes that use a specific component?

1. On the Week or Day view, click on the Highlight bar

2. Open the options panel

3. In Search By, select "Product Name"

4. Choose your Search Depth:

   • Event Item → highlights the exact product (recipe or ingredient) being served

     Examples: “Am I serving Diet Coke any day?” or “Is Chicken Parmesan on the menu?”

   • Event Item and its recipe components → highlights any recipe that uses the product as a component

     Examples: “Is anything made with Chicken Thighs?” or “Are we using Marinated Turkey in anything?”

5. Start typing the product name

6. Select it from the list

7. Any matching days will be highlighted in the planner

8. Click on a highlight in a specific day to view the first highlighted item in that day
9. Use the arrows to navigate between results

🏷️ Search by Category Tag

Need to check if an item has a specific tag?

1. Click on the Highlight bar

2. Open the options panel

3. In Search By, select "Category and Value"

4. Choose the Category Type: Recipe Category or Ingredient Category

5. Pick the Category Value (from the options for the selected category)

6. The planner will highlight any day that includes items with that tag

7. Click on a highlight in a specific day to view the first highlighted item in that day
8. Use the arrows to navigate between results

🔤 Search by Key Term

Looking for a partial match in names or components? Want to check if you're serving too much “chicken”? Use this:

1. Click on the Highlight bar

2. Open the options panel

3. In Search By, select "Key Term"

4. Type the word or phrase you want to search (e.g. "chicken")

5. Press Enter

6. The planner will highlight any days where that term appears in an item’s name or recipe component tree

7. Click on a highlight in a specific day to view the first highlighted item in that day
8. Use the arrows to navigate between results

In the image below, you can see a search for "salt" and how it is compared to finding a specific salt, "Salt, Kosher"

➕ Highlight Up to 5 at a Time

You can highlight up to 5 items or tags at once, mixing any of the search types above.

Give it a try and let us know what you think — or if you hit any bumps. We’re here to help!

Note: The selected Search Depth will apply to all 5 highlights.

Happy planning,
The Galley Team 👩‍🍳