Recipe within a recipe

cinaminonly

Are we not able to add a personal recipe to another recipe. For instance I make my own marinara and I have it saved in my recipes however if I want to make, let's say lasagna and I add my ingredients, I cant add my marinara recipe into it. I have to add the ingredients that make my marinara into the lasagna recipe. Hope that makes sense.

boilerdawg2009

I've never tried it, but with the struggles this app has with some basic functions sometimes, that might be asking too much lol

BarbaraHelen2013

Sadly you can’t incorporate one recipe into another. I’d dearly love to be able to, though. Mainly for the same reason you’re asking. I make an Italian Tomato Sauce which I use as a base for many other dishes too.

The workaround I’ve used a few times is to figure out the calories in the portion of the sauce I’m using then use a standard database entry for a similar sounding sauce and play with the quantity on the entry until the calories match those in my sauce which I’m actually using. It’s not going to be spot on macro wise but at least it’s in the ballpark calorie wise. 🤷‍♀️

Another way round is to add a note in the title of the recipe you are incorporating your marinara into to the effect ‘add 100g of marinara to diary’ - obviously change the amount to suit - but that then keeps the integrity of the macros from both recipes but reminds you that you have to enter it as a separate part of your meal.

hesn92

Yea I don't think that's going to happen lol. MFP isn't the best when it comes to being user friendly. I would just figure up how many calories are in the amount of sauce you're using, and then find some other database entry and just plug it the number of servings to get you to the correct # of calories, if that makes sense.

lynn_glenmont

If you make this sauce a lot, and use it in other dishes a lot, it might be worth the fairly minor effort of taking the nutritional information for the sauce recipe and creating a food entry with that information.

ciaoder

Mmmmmmm…lasagna!