One time edit for recipe ingredients & and better household management

JonnyBrownrigg23

Hello!

One for the app, in my case anyway, but it would be AMAZING to have the ability to do a one time edit of the ingredients in a particular recipe that you have logged to your diary without having to go and change the actual recipe itself. Equally, for the same effect - better functionality around serving number for ‘my meals’ would fix the same problem.

My use case is: let’s say I’m making a protein smoothie [insert other meal here] and I am out of Greek yogurt. For this instance and this instance only, I might up the milk a bit and take off the yogurt. Currently I would have to edit the recipe before logging it, and then when I’ve been to the shop and bought more yoghurt, I would need to remember to go back to the recipe and update it again back to its original form. Would be cool to have an option to edit the ingredients of just that logged entry without having to change the whole recipe.

Alternatively, if I use the ‘my meals’ functionality to create a recipe (probably better to think of something with multiple servings in this case, let’s say a curry). It’s easy enough to edit ingredients on the fly after logging a meal, but because you don’t record anything to do with serving number, I have to do some weird maths when logging it. E.g. 1/8th of the meal, if the meal will do for 8 servings.

Equally, with the meals functionality, if I remember correctly you cannot share a ‘meal’ publicly (only recipes) and so someone else in my household cannot use use their MFP account to easily add a meal I’ve created for both of us. (I think this is right but happy to shown otherwise!)

In my mind it seems excessive to have two separate options to record common meals. I tend to prefer the ‘my meals’ functionality over ‘my recipes’ because of the granular control it gives you…. But to make it complete it needs to have a serving size, so that you can create it as a recipe and then easily log it later, and then the ability for someone else in my household to easily copy what I’ve made for the two of us would really solve all my problems.

If you could fix this you’d definitely find a new subscriber in my partner (family plan anyone 👀), whilst for now there is no benefit for her subscribing at all!