Anyway to add a recipe to another recipe?

Leoturi

I was curious if anyone had any tips on how to combine recipes accurately. I am making sauce tonight, which I have already built for what is in it. However, I'm not going to be using all the sauce when I combine it with pasta and cheese for the lasagna I'm making. Is there anyway to enter the amount of sauce I use vs calculating the whole thing, and it being off by a few hundred calories?

MegaMooseEsq

Can't you just do one entry for the sauce and another for the pasta? I'm not sure I follow the question.

JeromeBarry1

CyberTone described a way of doing that recently. It seemed complexicated to me.

CyberTone

I would recommend taking the nutrition information for one serving of the sauce Recipe and creating a private My Foods item. Then use the desired number of servings of the saved My Foods item in the other Recipe.

I do not use the Recipe Tool on the mobile app, but I believe any personal My Foods that you have created and are part of the subset of My Foods items stored on your mobile device can be used. If you have a lot of personal My Foods items, some of them might not be stored on the limited memory of the mobile device and may not necessarily be available to add to a Recipe on the mobile app.

On the web version, I have found that the Recipe Tool will not let you use personal My Foods; it uses a different search index and matching algorithm than the Add Food to Diary search, so it does not discover your personal My Foods or My Meals.

I have developed a workaround on the web version for using personal My Foods - or using a Recipe within a Recipe - by first creating and remembering a draft Recipe as a My Meal in a meal slot in the Food Diary, then importing the saved My Meal to the actual Recipe using the Old Recipe Calculator, which is available only on the web version. My instructions are at this link...

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

Edited to add: It may sound complicated at first, and the first few times you do it there will be a learning curve. After doing a couple dozen of these, I find it much quicker and more reliable than fooling with the Recipe Tool.