Is anyone exhausted from cooking and recipe builder?

fastfoodietofitcutie

I try to cook 3 new recipes/dishes a week and sometimes it takes me 30 minutes to enter the information into recipe builder. If it has a lot of ingredients it can take me 45 minutes to get the exact ingredient and portion size correct. I just did this for one recipe and now I don't feel like making it!

I think I may start eating the same things more often because this is getting too hard.

m4ndela

Have you tried recipe importer or the barcode scanner? They are normally quicker

GingerbreadCandy

Sometimes it fails to work properly, then I get frustrated. Otherwise no, not really…

For complex recipes that I can't just import, I will have a notebook besides me where I will quickly jot the weight of each food, then add it all at once.

cambro

I typed a recipe on the computer in Word. I emailed it myself. Opened it in my phone and cut and paste it into the recipe builder. I type faster on a normal keyboard!

gmallan

Yep, I tend to make the same things often so it's a bit easier. Maybe you could cut back to one new recipe a week.

Francl27

Yeah it's frustrating as hell. Editing an old recipe is the worst, got to go through all the recipes to find it, then for some unknown reason I can't seem to change the number of servings on my computer (on any browser... it just doesn't change anything when I save).. Just ugh. Most days I frankly don't even bother and just use my old recipe, even if the quantities have changed a bit.

Oh and the last time I made a recipe? I had to uninstall and reinstall the app on my phone to be able to change the number of servings because I messed up the first time, and the new recipe didn't show up at all in my recipe list on the app. It's SO AGGRAVATING.

So yeah, haven't made a new recipe since.

pplastics

Very frustrating, but worth the effort if it is a recipe you will be using repeatedly. I liked the old recipe builder better. The new cut and paste/URL never gets the ingredients right, and sometimes doesn't edit correctly...watch out for that. One of my recipes would have been 100s of calories short per serving if I hadn't caught it.

November_Fire

Sometimes I find it faster to just list it in the diary in quarters (assuming 4 servings and I'm eating 1.) It can be quicker than faffing with that godawful database, which always seems to want to default to weird foreign food than just, like, an onion. Not Onion Flavour Bacon Sprinkles.

leannems

I usually make recipes off of pinterest, and recipe builder has hard hardly any problems importing it through the URL. I sometimes have to make 1 or 2 changes, but that's it.

RavenLibra

I once read that Jennifer Aniston had a cob salad everyday for lunch... it got me thinking... that "food as fuel" really simplifies your life and your grocery bill, NOW I don't have a cob salad every day at lunch... BUT my breakfast and snacks are pretty much the same 5 days a week. and if it were not for the wife and kid.. I am pretty sure I'd make the same thing for supper every night... of course with that sort of philosophy, a person might need to begin taking vitamin and mineral supplements .. y'know just to keep the coat and teeth healthy as well. anyway... IF putting things together is a chore... ask yourself are you creating a lifelong sustainable habit? or are you looking for excuses to quit? keep food nutrient rich and simple, adhere to your macros and try to maintain your micros, eating isn't supposed to be a "chore" otherwise you are setting yourself up for failure.