How to Create a Recipe in MyFitnessPal 📱

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  • Nova
    Nova Posts: 10,619 MFP Staff
    edited April 9

    To create a recipe, go to your diary and tap add food, then select the My Recipes tab. You can also find your recipes list in the more menu under My Meals, Recipes, and Foods.

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    On this screen, you can create, discover, or import a recipe. Discover recipes will take you to our recipe discovery feature, which features categorized recipes you can save and log right from the app or save for later.

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    Creating a recipe lets you enter ingredients manually or paste them from another source. Once entered, MyFitnessPal will match your ingredients and measurements with items in our database. Tap on any item that is not a good match, and you’ll be able to perform a search to refine the accuracy of that ingredient. Just tap search for an alternative, and we’ll show you additional options. It’s important to note that the Create a Recipe feature is unable to determine the total number of servings for a recipe manually entered. If you’re unsure how many servings your recipe creates. We suggest entering an educated guess and coming back to edit it later if needed.

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    The Recipe Import feature allows you to quickly import recipes from popular websites or input a recipe website URL, which is then converted into a recipe format for you. Once submitted, you can make the same adjustments, such as editing measurements or selecting alternative ingredients, as we mentioned earlier in this tutorial. Once you have a recipe saved, it will be available for you in your My Recipes list to log in the future.

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  • wishingiwasfishing5037
    wishingiwasfishing5037 Posts: 28 Member

    Can you import recipes from Meal Plan so you can edit ingredients? Do I have to rewrite the whole recipe line by line?

  • Nova
    Nova Posts: 10,619 MFP Staff

    Currently, we don't have this feature available.

    A workaround you can use is to take a screenshot of the recipe you wanted to make, open the photo in your photo app, and highlight the text using the screenshot with your finger. Then copy this over to your recipe creation on the app using the steps above, then you'll have a list of correct ingredients, and you can add or omit any ingredients you like.

    Or you can add them one by one and then make a meal out of it, if it's something you enjoyed and think you'd like to make again.

  • mtimmerman001
    mtimmerman001 Posts: 1 Member

    I was trying to create a recipe today. I used a whole block of tofu. When I saw the options they were 3 oz and other smaller amounts. Shouldn't I state the entire amount I used in the recipe?

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