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Thanks for checking it out. I'm in the process of allowing folks to create recipes - it's part of my finishing touches that should be done in the next day or so.

If nothing else, seems like people could use it for those staples in their grocery lists.

Please let me know if you have any other feedback with it.

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On the Shopping List page, should the button read "Edit List" not "Edit Menu". Looks like I can use that for the secret ingredient, I can just use a recipe online close to what mine is, then add the one or two things to the list.

* Also was pleasantly surprised to see ColdFusion. Are you using CF9 or one of the open source servers?

Yeah - using Railo and have been really happy with it. Was a little worried about memory issues, but it's pretty efficient.

For the buttons, I was thinking that Edit Menu let's you add/remove recipes from your list (or multiply them). "Add Items" will let you put additional items on your list but not associated with any specific recipe.

Though for your secret ingredient, you could actually edit a similar recipe and then put in your own ingredient(s). Once it's in the db as an ingredient, the shopping list would be able to parse it out and lump it together with everything else.

I'll definitely put recipe creation in there sooner than later.

Not sure if this message will ever see the light of day, but just wanted to let you know that I put the recipe creation in place earlier today.

Thanks again for the suggestion.

Great, thanks! Uploading my seco recipe now :)

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