Re: Stanford Planner--thanks

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Thanks so much--the stanford planner is my fist exposure to excel--so

steep learning curve for me! If you get the chance, you should add

this post to the files section of this group. I haven't figured out

the search engine to have it search more than the group of messages

that show on the screen. You could probably help with that too,

!! Your idea for software sounds TERRIFIC!!

has been on the diet for about the same amount of time as

and seems to get better every day. In fact, we just lowered her

depakote again--she's down to 250mg/day (from 1125 at diet initiation

mid-July). I read other parents' posts saying that it took awhile

for the diet to kick in (particularly when they were trying to wean

medications such as depakote) and then they achieved seizure control--

so stay optimistic!

ne

> I'm still a relative newbie at this, but I thought I'd share some

helpful hints for those people just getting started with the Stanford

meal planner. It's actually quite easy to use, but can seem a little

awkward at first.

> Here's a couple of tips, so you don't make the same mistakes I made:

> - You can add all the foods you want to the first tab (FOOD

VALUES). Once they are added there, they will show up in the drop

down lists on the menu pages. Just add the food name, the grams (ie.

listed on the nutrition label for a single serving), the protein,

fat, and carbs for that serving size. The spreadsheet will calculate

the pro, fat, and carbs per 100g. We have probably added 100+ foods,

and we've only been at it for 5 weeks. It's easiest just to add the

new foods at the bottom of the list.

> - Don't delete entries from the Food Values sheet IF you've already

entered some menu's! This will screw up the menu's you've already

created. If you have not entered any menu's yet, I recommend going

through the Food Values sheet and deleting all the foods you think

you'll never use, (and maybe rearranging the ones that are there so

it makes more sense to you). You CAN overwrite entries on this page,

just don't delete a whole line.

> - Unless the Stanford planner has recently changed, you can only

have 8 ingredients for a meal. That wasn't enough for us, so I added

a couple of lines so that it can now take 10 ingredients. I'd be

happy to send it to you (or anyone else) if you'd like that. You can

just import it right into your meal planner and use it as a template.

> - I think there are only 10 blank meals when you start. To get

more, just select a tab, right click and pick " Move or Copy " . Then

click the " Create a copy " checkbox and select where you want the new

page to go. To quickly create many new empty menu's, you can select

multiple tabs (by holding down the ctrl key and clicking the tabs),

then follow these same steps. For example, when you first start

using this program, you may want to immediately select the 10 blank

sheets, and copy them so you have 20 blank meals to work from.

You'll see that you will quickly go through those 10.

> - For food items that don't have nutrition labels (ie produce, bulk

foods, etc.), I use the USDA Nutrient database. You can use the

online version (http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/), or

download it to your machine

(http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/srch/search.htm).

> - Let's say you make a big batch of ice cream every weekend and use

it throughout the week. 1) Enter all the ingredients for your recipe

in a new meal sheet. 2) Add 'Ice cream' to the Food Values list

(first tab). 3) For grams, add up the total weight of all your

ingredients. 4) Pro, Fat, and carbs will be found at the bottom of

your meal sheet. Add those to the the entry in the food value list.

Now, when you are creating a meal, you can simply select 'Ice cream'

from the drop down list, just like any other food. (you can also use

the MIXTURE tab for this).

>

> -, dad to (2 yrs old, keto kid since 7/04. Nothing yet,

but we're still optimistic!)

>

>

> P.S. We've begun to write our own piece of software that should

make all of this stuff far easier, as well as features such as being

able to e-mail menu's, keep a history of what menu was used on what

day, automatically increase/decrease calories, etc. The plan is to

make it easy to grab from the USDA list if needed. And, also have

the capability to import current menus from the Stanford and Hopkins

planners. The problem is that I spend an awful lot of time weighing

food these days, so I don't enough time to work on this. If we

ever finish this, I'll of course post it to this list.

>

>

>

> Re: recipes--jackie--which software?

>

>

> Hi Jackie,

>

> Just reading the posts and was wondering what software you use.

We,

> at our dietician's suggestion, are using the Stanford meal

planner.

> We like the versatility of the software too, but not all the

foods or

> brands we would like to use are included. . .do you use a

different

> planner and if so, could you describe how it works? Thanks.

>

> ne, mom to (4 year old keto kid since 7-19-04 and

still

> seizure free!!) and (18 mos).

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