Setting recipes to vegan only

ralexander53
ralexander53 Posts: 6 Member
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Can the recipes be set to vegan only

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  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,802 Member
    What recipes?

    The only recipes in my diary are the ones I created, so I have complete control what I put in them.
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,235 Member
    If you are referring to the recipes on the blog, I'm unfamiliar with all options on that page because I usually never go there, but I just tried a search for 'vegan' and it had quite a few recipes come up.
  • kellimichelle777
    kellimichelle777 Posts: 2 Member
    I wish the recipes on the blog had them logged in Gram value cooked
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,476 Member
    kellimichelle777 wrote: »
    I wish the recipes on the blog had them logged in Gram value cooked

    grams cooked makes no sense because cooking changes the weight of food, and this can differ quite a lot depending on how you cook it. Rice and pasta absorb water, meat loses water, some fat and sometimes protein, etc. A small change in preparing, slightly different brand, different thickness, etc all play into this. Plus how would a recipe work that tells you to prepare for example 200gr cooked rice or 100gr chicken thigh. How much do you need to use to get there?
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,802 Member
    yirara wrote: »
    kellimichelle777 wrote: »
    I wish the recipes on the blog had them logged in Gram value cooked

    grams cooked makes no sense because cooking changes the weight of food, and this can differ quite a lot depending on how you cook it. Rice and pasta absorb water, meat loses water, some fat and sometimes protein, etc. A small change in preparing, slightly different brand, different thickness, etc all play into this. Plus how would a recipe work that tells you to prepare for example 200gr cooked rice or 100gr chicken thigh. How much do you need to use to get there?

    I'm not sure, but I think @kellimichelle777 was wishing for an analysis of the final product in terms of macros. She might mean simply the caloric value per gram of final product, but that information already seems to be there. I have been using MFP for several years, and I've never used their recipes, but I just randomly had a look in the blog. The recipe I clicked on did have values per gram, so to speak, at the bottom:

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    To log this as a per gram of final product, you'd have to go to the recipe section and enter the URL of the recipe (in this case https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/cast-iron-vegetarian-tamale-pie/). Then you can save it to your own recipes, and then when you log it in your diary you select the serving size of one gram (instead of the published 185 grams) and log however many grams you ate. I do that with recipes of my own. I just had to edit one because I obtained a new cast iron cornbread stick pan, so one batch now makes 30 servings instead of 22. I also have changed the recipe over the years, so I updated that. It's now current, so when I log one piece, it's one piece. Sweet stuff.

    As far as the OP's question: @ralexander53 - If you are in fact talking about recipes on the blog from the main MFP page, yes you can do a keyword search. I entered "vegan" and it spit out a bunch of recipes. They didn't have any that included gochujang though.


  • dbloom1996
    dbloom1996 Posts: 1 Member

    I didn’t see an answer to the question. Can I set the app up to only show me vegan recipes? I don’t want to waste my time looking through all the other recipes that include things I don’t eat! Thanks y’all 🙏

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,221 Member
    edited April 29
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48586848#Comment_48586848

    What part of the app are you talking about? Mostly, folks don't understand the question.

    If you mean the MFP blog, someone answered that . . . as good an answer as there is.

    It doesn't seem like you could mean the recipes in Recipes, Meals and Foods (in the app) or the Food tab/Recipes sub-tab in web MFP, because those would be recipes you set up yourself.

    If you mean recipes in the Recipe Discovery section of the phone/tablet app, there aren't - as far as I know - any settings or search for that at all. But some/most and maybe all of those recipes are also in the MFP blog, which can be searched as mentioned above. There are categories in that section, a couple of which are vegetarian, but I don't see vegan. Some but not all of the recipes there are vegan.

    If you're talking about the new Premium+ meal planning feature, that's so new that pretty much none of the experienced MFP users know anything about it, and I'm not sure how many of the people newly using that feature will be reading posts here, since there have been other questions about how Premium+ works but not many answers.

    I know that's not super helpful, but I think it's pretty real, unfortunately. I'm sympathetic. I'm not vegan, just vegetarian, but I've been cooking for so many decades that I don't much rely on MFP (or other) recipes unless something catches my eye to try.

    I'm sorry.

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