Hi Denis,

first of all, i wouldn’t call it counterproductive. cumbersome perhaps….(but then again, you’ll only have to do it once)

secondly, i understand what you are saying, but there’s no way to do that without severely restricting the flexibility of the plugin. It might be the case in your situation, that you have the same ingredients for a multitude of different meals/sizes, but that does not mean it’s the same for everybody. so, sorry, but you will have to duplicate the ingredients.

Essentially, you are assigning a set of ingredients to a mealsize group which in turn you can assigne to any/all meals within that group. If one were to do it the other way round somewhat, one would have to list all your ingredients under every meal/menu item and select them there individually, set prices etc etc , which I would think you’ll agree would be a lot more work. (never mind the fact, if you decide that you do not have an ingredient anymore or the price changes , you would have to do that for every menu item it is being used instead of just editing it once as appropriate in the ingredient section….

there are a couple more reasons why it is the way it is, but I’m not going to bore you senseless (unless you want me to 🙂