Wow! Import from Allrecipes!!!

D_squareG
D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
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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
    krysannboggs Posts: 48 Member
    ZipList is another great one. It had a recipe clipper option that saves any recipe from any website. I love it.
  • D_squareG
    D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
    Does that import the recipe into the MFP database?
  • an0nemus
    an0nemus Posts: 149 Member
    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
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    It is a new and welcome function. :)
  • PeachyGAPeanut
    PeachyGAPeanut Posts: 11
    I am going to have to check this out! Manually entering them is tedious!!!
  • moseler
    moseler Posts: 224 Member
    I want to know how to do this... PLEASE!!!
  • PeachyGAPeanut
    PeachyGAPeanut Posts: 11
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  • D_squareG
    D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
    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
    D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
    Update!!! Just tried it with a random recipe from Food Network and it worked! Awsome!!!!!!!
  • StephyA86
    StephyA86 Posts: 68 Member
    This might have just changed my life forever! ;) Very cool, thanks for sharing!
  • miissalexandria
    miissalexandria Posts: 430 Member
    I noticed this the other day as well! It's awesome :) And you can edit the individual ingredients if you changed anything.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    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
    dreawest Posts: 208 Member
    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
    PeachyGAPeanut Posts: 11
    Awesome!!!! I am just as excited about this! I could exclamation point right off the page! ;-)
  • eddiesmith1
    eddiesmith1 Posts: 1,550 Member
    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
    Mygsds Posts: 1,564 Member
    Love this site because of all the "extras". Used this yesterday and was wonderful and time saving..
  • goingthedistancexc
    goingthedistancexc Posts: 40
    that's so awesome I didn't know that, definitely going to be a time saver
  • katswt
    katswt Posts: 16 Member
    I discovered this over the weekend, also! What a wonderful feature!! :happy:
  • miissalexandria
    miissalexandria Posts: 430 Member
    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
    ihammen Posts: 55 Member
    bump for the info
  • D_squareG
    D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
    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
    UtahWI Posts: 257 Member
    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
    cmurphy252 Posts: 279 Member
    Bump
  • nellie1967
    nellie1967 Posts: 8 Member
    Just tried it, so much easier! Thank you!
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    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
    leeannewgeorge Posts: 92 Member
    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
    donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
    bumpity bump
  • lmjblues
    lmjblues Posts: 117 Member
    Great tip!! Thanks for sharing!!
  • rondaj05
    rondaj05 Posts: 497 Member
    Great tip!! Thanks for sharing!!

    +1 :flowerforyou:
  • jennifer_a00
    jennifer_a00 Posts: 186 Member
    Cool! I'm so excited! Thanks for the alert.

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