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    Sharing recipes?

    Posts: 2 Member
    edited November 2024 in Recipes
    Is there a way to share recipies with your friends on here? I'm the cook of the house and it is a painful process to make recipies and and them to my phone then go threw and add them on three other phones for everyone in the house. It would b great if there were a way to send the recipies to everyone so I don't have to continue to scan every item and enter it manually. I'm new here so I'm not even sure if it's possible. Thank you in advance for your replies.

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    • Posts: 1 Member
      I would like an answer to that as well. I'm following.
    • Posts: 24 Member
      Solution!!

      When u click on 'Food', then the 'Recipes' tab, at the bottom of the page is a 'Enter New Recipe' button.
      You add the ingredients and everything there, and on the page it says 'Would you like to submit this recipe to the MyFitnessPal recipe database?'

      and there u have it!

      keep me updated if it worked out
    • Posts: 7,337 Member
      You can not share recipes directly with another user, and another user will not find your recipes through a search. Your recipes will be displayed in the search results only when you perform a search.

      There is a workaround.
      User1 creates a Recipe and logs it to a Meal.
      User2 opens User1's Diary (shared with public, friends only, or locked with a key)
      User2 clicks Quick Tools and copies User1's Meal to his/her Diary.

      ​Please see these articles, and search for other helpful articles, on the MFP Help pages...

      myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/304780-can-i-share-recipes-with-other-users-

      myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/11478-can-i-copy-meals-from-my-friends-

      myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/201687-how-do-i-make-my-diary-visible-to-other-users-
    • Posts: 2 Member
      Thank you for your replies, it is very much appreciated.
    • Posts: 1 Member
      I have a related question/issue. Is there a way to just copy ONE SINGLE food item from another user's diary? I know how to copy an entire meal. But there are times in our household of multiple users that we want to copy one meal item someone else has entered, but we don't want the entire meal. Now, we have to copy the entire meal, then go through and delete those items we didn't want / didn't eat. Is there a way to copy just one item?
    • Posts: 7,337 Member
      terryltron wrote: »
      I have a related question/issue. Is there a way to just copy ONE SINGLE food item from another user's diary? I know how to copy an entire meal. But there are times in our household of multiple users that we want to copy one meal item someone else has entered, but we don't want the entire meal. Now, we have to copy the entire meal, then go through and delete those items we didn't want / didn't eat. Is there a way to copy just one item?

      No. If it is a Recipe or a My Foods item (I think - I haven't tried it with another person's My Foods item), you have to copy the entire Meal, then delete unwanted items. If it is a single food item that is available in the public Food Database, it is just easier to search for it in the public database.
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