murra1a

Here is a sample of the three tables Ingredients: Key Ingredient 1 Bacon 2 Tomato 3 Lettuce 4 Bread 5 Eggs Recipes: Recipe Ingredients BLT 1,2,3,4 Bacon and Eggs 1,5 OnHand: StuffOnHand IngredientKey Bacon 1 Tomato 2 Eggs 5 I want to output: 1. That I can make bacon and eggs 2. That I can make a BLT if I get Lettuce and Bread I hope that is more clear Thanks

Hi, I have 3 tables: ingredient, recipes, onhand ingredient is 2 fields: key, name recipes is several fields, important one is ingredients which is keys from ingredients table separated by commas eg 2,3,15,99 this essentially connects the list of ingredients in the recipe to ingredient names in the 1st table the third table is a list of ingredients I have on hand and their keys from the ingredient table. What I want to do is to search the recipe table for recipes I can make with the ingredients I have on hand and recipes for which I am missing only a few ingredients I am completely confused about how to do this Thanks Ryan