The primary method for entering food items is to search by their name and/or description. This search will search both Recipes and Ingredients. 

1. In the Search for box in the Recipe window, enter food item names and descriptions using partial words, in any order, separated by spaces. For example, type coo whi ri for “cooked white rice,” type plum tom for “plum tomatoes,” or type oran j z f for “orange juice, frozen concentrate.” (See Food Description Abbreviations)
2. Press Enter or click Search.

The program locates all food items containing the groups of letters entered, regardless of where the search terms appear. So, this search will return matches in names, user codes, products, etc.  To narrow your searches, use one of the other methods outlined in this section of the manual.