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Wow! Import from Allrecipes!!!

D_squareG

I just found the function that lets you import recipes from a website! Did the rest of you know you could do this? Ive been entering them manually for 6 months!

I'm not sure it will be perfect, but how neat!!!!

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krysannboggs

ZipList is another great one. It had a recipe clipper option that saves any recipe from any website. I love it.

D_squareG

Does that import the recipe into the MFP database?

an0nemus

I just found the function that lets you import recipes from a website! Did the rest of you know you could do this? Ive been entering them manually for 6 months!

I'm not sure it will be perfect, but how neat!!!!

Dumb question...(from a dumb user...)

how do you do this?

randomtai

It is a new and welcome function.

PeachyGAPeanut

I am going to have to check this out! Manually entering them is tedious!!!

moseler

I want to know how to do this... PLEASE!!!

PeachyGAPeanut

D_squareG

On the full website, not from the app, I log in.

Go to Food, then Recipes. You will see right at the top "Recipe Importer" and a box to insert a URL for a website.

I go to my Recipe Box on AllRecipes (this is where you may have something else or a website. I haven't tried it with something like cooks.com or anything else yet.

Get to the Recipe you want and then copy the URL in the window. Go back to MFP and paste it into the URL window and hit import recipe.

It will search for the recipe and you may have to clean it up a bit, but it is really neat if you have a lot of recipes already saved on a website (which I do)!

I'm going to try it with just a random site next. I'll let you know how it goes!

(I'm excited, can you tell? Sorry for all the exclamation points)

D_squareG

Update!!! Just tried it with a random recipe from Food Network and it worked! Awsome!!!!!!!

StephyA86

This might have just changed my life forever!

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

miissalexandria

I noticed this the other day as well! It's awesome

And you can edit the individual ingredients if you changed anything.

WinoGelato

Is it working now? Because I tried the other day, and it would not import, and that was also from AllRecipes. I hope it does work, that would be very helpful!

dreawest

I noticed this the other day as well! It's awesome And you can edit the individual ingredients if you changed anything.

It allows you to edit? This just changed my life! I thought the importer meant you had to keep it the same. Now it is a useful tool for me

PeachyGAPeanut

Awesome!!!! I am just as excited about this! I could exclamation point right off the page! ;-)

eddiesmith1

I managed to import a couple last Friday while on a computer and they show fine on the computer, when i try and view them from my tablet (android based) or my iPhone they are there in name only. Given I have no computer in the kitchen I'm not likely to use the feature since it doesn't support mobile use. I Really just need to be able to see the ingredient list of rmost thing and i can extrapolate how to make them since I have a lot of cooking experience
I just go to the websites now via my tablet

Mygsds

Love this site because of all the "extras". Used this yesterday and was wonderful and time saving..

goingthedistancexc

that's so awesome I didn't know that, definitely going to be a time saver

katswt

I discovered this over the weekend, also! What a wonderful feature!! :happy:

miissalexandria

I noticed this the other day as well! It's awesome And you can edit the individual ingredients if you changed anything.

It allows you to edit? This just changed my life! I thought the importer meant you had to keep it the same. Now it is a useful tool for me

Yep. when You import the recipe(ingredient list) you can add different ingredients before or after.. then you can change anything. I'm going to make a loaded potato soup tonight.. but it has no meat, so I'll be adding some lean ground beef and so it'll be easy to add it to the recipe when I log tonight. I think it's fantastic

ihammen

bump for the info

D_squareG

I managed to import a couple last Friday while on a computer and they show fine on the computer, when i try and view them from my tablet (android based) or my iPhone they are there in name only. Given I have no computer in the kitchen I'm not likely to use the feature since it doesn't support mobile use. I Really just need to be able to see the ingredient list of rmost thing and i can extrapolate how to make them since I have a lot of cooking experience
I just go to the websites now via my tablet

I hadn't noticed this. It showed the recipe for me to add to my log, but you are right. The app on my Iphone doesn't show the ingredients of the recipe. I will do the same if needed, just go to the full site via Safari.

This is still far better than Weight Watchers online. I paid for that for years. I'm so happy with MFP.

UtahWI

Nice! Definitely going to play with this in the next few days! While it would be nice if the whole recipe would show up in the app, I guess it doesn't *have* to in order for me to be happy! Just to save some time...I tinker with all the recipes anyway so being able to alter is *awesome*!

cmurphy252

Bump

nellie1967

Just tried it, so much easier! Thank you!

WinoGelato

I just tried to import this recipe:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mexican-Lasagna-Lite/Detail.aspx

and it came up as 1900 cal/serving. Um, no.... I don't think so...

I really don't understand how this works. When I went through and looked at the ingredients it matched, all of them gave ridiculously inflated calorie counts. Like 32000 calories for refried beans, or 20000 calories for diced green chiles. When I went through to edit it, the values still came up really inflated.

Is anyone else checking to see if the recipe they are inputting matches what the original site said?

leeannewgeorge

I was able to import using my Ipad from Foodnetwork.com. However, I wasn't able to import from skinnytaste.com. I think it has something to do with the format of the recipe on the website. You can copy and paste from any website though and that is much easier than typing the entire recipe!

donyellemoniquex3

bumpity bump

lmjblues

Great tip!! Thanks for sharing!!

rondaj05

Great tip!! Thanks for sharing!!

+1 :flowerforyou:

jennifer_a00

Cool! I'm so excited! Thanks for the alert.