Using 'my recipe' in another recipe?

sarahhacket

Hey, just wondering how I would go about using one of the recipes I've uploaded in another recipe I'm trying to manually input.

To give this some context, I've made my own mayonnaise and I've used that mayo in another recipe but I can't seem to figure out how to (if I even can) match that ingredient in another recipe?

TIA

CyberTone

There is not really a convenient way to do this.

I have a workaround by creating recipes using My Meals then importing them into the Old Recipe Calculator available on the web version only. It is the closest substitute for using a Recipe within a Recipe. This is the method I use to create all of my Recipes now.

See my instructions in this post...

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10471173/how-to-use-my-foods-and-my-meals-in-a-recipe-a-workaround

ritzvin

I also wish you could copy a recipe. (For when I make another batch of something while some of the old batch is still around).

CyberTone

ritzvin wrote: »

I also wish you could copy a recipe. (For when I make another batch of something while some of the old batch is still around).

By using my method of first creating a recipe as a My Meals, I have a copy in My Meals to start with. I then add that saved My Meal to an empty meal slot in my Diary, change the ingredients, then save it with a slightly different name (I put the date in the name). When I go to the Old Recipe Calculator and search for My Meal, I just add that My Meal to the new Recipe and it just pulls all of the ingredients in one add action. Boom. Done. Save the new Recipe with a new name (new date in the name).

Edited to add: The bonus is that this method also allows me to use personal My Foods in the My Meals, which then get added to my Recipe. I believe this is currently the only way to use personal My Foods in a Recipe.

Francl27

What I did to work around that is entering the original recipe in my diary to see what the calories and macros were for the quantity I needed.. then I made a new food entry with that info, with a name that was easy to find. Then I just searched for it when I logged my recipe ingredients and it showed up.

Annoying but hey, it works.

CyberTone

Francl27 wrote: »

What I did to work around that is entering the original recipe in my diary to see what the calories and macros were for the quantity I needed.. then I made a new food entry with that info, with a name that was easy to find. Then I just searched for it when I logged my recipe ingredients and it showed up.

Annoying but hey, it works.

Did you have to make that My Foods item you created public in the Food Database? When I have tried to find a personal My Foods item using the newish Recipe Builder, I can only find items from the public Food Database, not my personal My Foods items.