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How do you enter your home made recipes??

bseizer
bseizer Posts: 5
edited February 11 in Social Groups
I want to enter my own recipes since I cook myself rather than buying prepared meals.
I have a smartphone with the MFP app.
The app does have a UPC barcode scanner function, but the scanner function only adds it to todays food diary,

I want to scan all of the ingredients into some temporary space and specify how much of each ingredient I used and how many servings it makes.
I then expect the MFP program to figure out all of the particular numbers based on a single serving.
Then when I enter one of my personal recipe names into my diary the system will already have the information needed.

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  • bseizer
    bseizer Posts: 5
    Thank you to Jay from MyFitnessPal Support for answering this question.
    I was able to test this out.
    It did require me to use the web as well as the mobile app.
    Scanning the containers of each ingredient made this so much easier than manually entering the nutrition facts for each ingredient.


    HOW TO: ---

    The recipes features allows you to combine multiple ingredients, so that MyFitnessPal can automatically calculate the correct number of calories and nutrients when you log a serving of that recipe to your diary.

    To get started:

    On the Web​

    Click "Food" then "Recipes" then "Enter New Recipe." Enter a name for the recipe, and specify the number of servings it produces.

    In our Mobile apps

    Begin the steps to add an item to your diary, select a meal, then select the "Recipes" tab, scroll down, and tap "Create New Recipe"

    Select "Add Ingredient" and search for the first ingredient in your recipe. If available on your device, Mobile app users may scan barcodes to find ingredients.

    Be sure to adjust the "number of servings" of each ingredient to reflect how much of the item you are using in the entire recipe. Once all of the ingredients are entered, save the recipe. The recipe will now be available in the "Recipes" tab tab when you add food to any meal.

    If you're not sure how many servings a recipe will produce, enter a best-guess number when you first create the recipe.

    After the recipe is cooked, you can evaluate the number of servings that have been produced. Then, the recipe can be edited and the correct number of servings can be entered.
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