HELP organizing recipes on MFP!!

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Rebamae
Rebamae Posts: 741 Member
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Is there a way to organize the recipes on MFP? I have entered many many recipes but there seems to be no way to organize them.
Please share with me how you keep your recipes organized on here!
Thanks so much!!

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  • pita7317
    pita7317 Posts: 1,437 Member
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    I would like to know that too.
  • Cynthiamr2015
    Cynthiamr2015 Posts: 161 Member
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    Need to know too. :smiley:
  • archintrain
    archintrain Posts: 12 Member
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    would love to know this as well!!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    Just being able to do a search would be a vast improvement. I have so many now, I just make a new one every time because it's faster than going through everything and editing it (which doesn't work half the time anyway).
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
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    You can edit them one by one And i did it this way

    All chicken recipes start with
    1.chicken curry
    1.garlic chicken
    1. Hawaiian chicken

    etc etc

    all soups with

    2. bean soup
    2. pie soup
    2. tomato soup
    2. veggie soup

    etc

    all fish dishes
    3. Swedish Cod
    3. Italian Tilapia
    3. Tilapia Cumin

    etc etc



    This way all the numbers are together and i have a little bit of a group
    it isn't much of a system but at least something.
    I didnt find any better way to organize it in MFP

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  • Notreadytoquit
    Notreadytoquit Posts: 233 Member
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    I don't think that's available yet either. I have at least 17 pages. Sometimes when it's a recipe I use all the time, like canned items, favorite dishes, etc they get buried. Since recipes are by date on website, I periodically have to retrieve one, make a minor change and get it back near top of queue. Also purge once or twice a year.

    Now that this is subscription service I hope to see improvement in this area soon. Even being able to alphabetize recipes would be helpful. While I'm wishing, it'd be great to use recipes in recipes, also. I often make things that become components of other dishes. Always a bummer I can't log them.
  • GillianLF
    GillianLF Posts: 410 Member
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    I don't think there is an option to do this but it would be super handy to have! I'm just printing them off at the moment and saving them in a folder.
  • Khovde07
    Khovde07 Posts: 508 Member
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    I would love to be able to do this too. What I do is enter my recipes under a name I will recognize (Kayla's Chili, etc) and then you can search that name just like you would any other food when logging a meal. It also makes it easier because then my husband can easily log my recipes without entering them all over again in his MFP profile. Hope this helps a little.
  • kutedaisy
    kutedaisy Posts: 41 Member
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    Yes and would be nice to edit meal too. Mine only has button to delete
  • RaeBeeBaby
    RaeBeeBaby Posts: 4,245 Member
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    kutedaisy wrote: »
    Yes and would be nice to edit meal too. Mine only has button to delete

    I agree with this! I make many variations of the same things and have had to re-create as new meals each time.
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    edited October 2015
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    You can edit a recipe There is a edit button.

    Click on the recipe and on the right side there is edit
    When you have it in edit you can change ingredients quantities remove or add ingredients and serving sizes etc. ...you can change the title :) So for instead all your chicken recipes keep the same title but you put a 1. infront of it
    Your crock pot recipes all a 2
    your soups all a 3

    etc.

    Its not much of a sorting but at least something

    BTW i stopped making recipes in MFP
    I Found out i find making a meal is also handy.


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  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    edited October 2015
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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    edited October 2015
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    BurnWithBarn2015 wrote: »
    You can edit a recipe There is a edit button.

    Click on the recipe and on the right side there is edit
    When you have it in edit you can change ingredients quantities remove or add ingredients and serving sizes etc. ...you can change the title :) So for instead all your chicken recipes keep the same title but you put a 1. infront of it
    Your crock pot recipes all a 2
    your soups all a 3

    etc.

    Its not much of a sorting but at least something

    BTW i stopped making recipes in MFP
    I Found out i find making a meal is also handy.


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    I can edit them but not change the amount of servings if I use my computer, which is pretty much pointless. I mean, there's a button for it, it just doesn't work half the time...
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    edited October 2015
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    Mine works...that is a shame for you
    Sort of a bug/error?

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    BurnWithBarn2015 wrote: »
    Mine works...that is a shame for you
    Sort of a bug/error?

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    Yeah it's been going on for months. I have to use my phone app to change the number of servings, but if it's a recent recipe, it won't be in the app, so I'll have to uninstall and reinstall the app for it to show up. It SUCKS. So... easier to just make a new recipe (or 3... like yesterday... when I ended up eating a cold dinner by the time I had weighed and entered everything).
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
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    I started to use the Meal option more and more
    Find it easier atm

    Just select the meal and when it is in the diary i can edit the grams, add ingredients or remove


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