Saving Recipes

happylass14

Hi. Anyone else have issues when saving recipes? It always says that it's unable to save it after I've gone to the trouble of entering all the ingredients. Sometimes the recipe will then be there under my saved recipes the next time I log in. Other times it just disappears. Very annoying as it literally happens EVERY time I try to log a recipe. Thanks.

Shusaka

Yep, the recipe builder has been buggy for years. It's frustrating as hell! I don't know why they won't sort the problems out

Propelling

I'm shocked this is still a problem in 2022. Literally not going to use MyFitnessPal because of this frustrating bug.

Psartor11

I'm having a problem trying to understand which food to choose when I can't see the ingredients, only various nutrition numbers. Example venison vegetable soup - there are dozens with no hint of what went into them. I would choose one if I could tell it was somewhat close to my ingredients. Still trying to learn how to navigate the site.

Jthanmyfitnesspal

I just don't use it. If I want to have a collection of ingredients, I collect it into a "meal." That seems to work fine.

I recognize that the recipe builder would be useful for certain cases, like a custom recipe. It seems pretty silly to have a meal with small amounts of flour, sugar, butter, and eggs in it.

stefsamaniego

It is sad that this is still an issue. Recipes are huge. I would about 40% of my recipes won't save for some unknown reason

mattinflagstaff

I'm writing to echo previous sentiments and concerns. I continue to be unable to save recipes using the website, even after trying to follow the workarounds. This seems to be the system's Achilles heel.

phillygal87

Argh! Frustrating me too! I started importing recipes instead of building them.

mtettero

I use an app called Paprika 3. It's the best recipe saving app around. If I find an interesting recipe online, I can paste the URL into the app and it downloads just the ingredients and the directions. You can also have different categories, for instance you might want to save a recipe to Low-carb and then you might want to save a recipe to vegetarian. I highly recommend this app
And I just realized you meant saving recipes to fitness pal, anyway it's a good app