Finding Other Members' Recipes on MFP

Aust1967

I was entering a new recipe this morning in my personal food list and was going to add it to the public database because my husband is also a member of MFP and ate the same thing for lunch. When I went to add it to the database it asked me for the whole list of ingredients and the steps to preparing it, etc. I decided to not go through all of that to add it to the database but it got me to thinking that there must be a way to search for other members' recipes in the database and get the actual list of ingredients and steps to preparation, etc. I've been looking but can't find how to search for recipes - I'm sure it's really easy and I'm just missing it. Can someone point me in the right direction? I think it would be great to be able to find actual recipes on MFP!

Thanks!
Laura

Aust1967

I've done some searching and found the information below - so, I guess the answer to my question is "no"

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Pandorian
Oct 26, 2013 02:36PM PDT

Not the "recipes" as in the ingredients and assembly instructions they've entered into the recipe calculator.
There is a whole forum dedicated to "Recipes" that you are free to input into your own account if you like them.

Now if you're in a house-hold where 2 or more people are eating of the same meal and you want the nutritional info without having to enter the recipe into each account, sure, there's a way "around" that.

One of you logs the recipe to your account so that MFP can calculate the per serving / per portion calorie and nutrient breakdown. Log a serving of that recipe to your food diary. Make sure the food diary is shared with the friend / family member who will also be using the "Recipe"

they come view YOUR diary from THEIR account and...

website - hit quick tools > copy to today

iOS/ Android - hit the wrench / spanner in the header with the meal name > copy to today

nutritional info of a recipe logged in both accounts (or however many you need by repeating the quicktools > copy to today as needed for each account) while only entering the recipe once.

Another potential work around would be using the nutritional info of a FOOD item entered from a cookbook recipe. Search something like "joy of cooking" in the food database and see what comes up (it's a cookbook I can see from where I sit) pick a recipe that sounds good and you can reference the physical cookbook (assuming you have it which means search for whatever cookbook you do have handy) for the ingredients and assembly instructions while NOT having to enter the entire recipe just to get the nutritional info. Joy of cooking, "allrecipes.com" are a couple sources for "Recipes" allrecipes.com you'd simply go to their website and search for the recipe-name you found in the food database.