Adding instructions in manually entered recipe?
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janalo55
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I can't figure out how to add the instructions in a recipe. If I upload one, it puts the link to the website, which I don't really want because I often make changes and want those listed. But if I enter it manually, I can't even see where to put them. This particular one I tried to upload but it said "no recipe found" probably because people blog so much the recipe is lost as far as MFP detecting it. That's OK if I could add the instructions!
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It's not a recipe function in the sense that you use it to cook from. It's simply a way to determine the nutritional breakdown of recipes you cook.
You'd have to save the recipes somewhere else.7 -
Darn. I was hoping there was at least a place for notes. Thanks.
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That would be a really useful feature, actually. I wish it did exist.7
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I use PepperPlate to manage my recipes and just keep the basics in MFP so I know the nutrition profile.
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Darn. I was hoping there was at least a place for notes. Thanks.
As a work-around, after creating the "recipe" in the recipe builder, you could copy and paste the ingredients to the blog space that MFP allots you and add your directions and notes there. Not great, as it would just be listed chronologically, but you could search it when you wanted to make a particular recipe again.
I did this early on in my MFP life for a few recipes I made up and didn't want to forget.0 -
On the app (android, anyway) if you create a meal you can add instructions for making it. That could be an option if it's a simple recipe and easily broken down into single serve amounts (in which case it's probably best entered as a meal anyway, as it is much easier to amend the individual weights of the ingredients).
It's bizarre that you can do this for a meal but not for a recipe.3 -
I can't figure out how to add the instructions in a recipe. If I upload one, it puts the link to the website, which I don't really want because I often make changes and want those listed. But if I enter it manually, I can't even see where to put them. This particular one I tried to upload but it said "no recipe found" probably because people blog so much the recipe is lost as far as MFP detecting it. That's OK if I could add the instructions!
When you enter a recipe manually on a desktop computer, at the bottom there is an option "Would you like to submit this recipe to the MyFitnessPal recipe database?"
That's where you can add instructions
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kshama2001 wrote: »I can't figure out how to add the instructions in a recipe. If I upload one, it puts the link to the website, which I don't really want because I often make changes and want those listed. But if I enter it manually, I can't even see where to put them. This particular one I tried to upload but it said "no recipe found" probably because people blog so much the recipe is lost as far as MFP detecting it. That's OK if I could add the instructions!
When you enter a recipe manually on a desktop computer, at the bottom there is an option "Would you like to submit this recipe to the MyFitnessPal recipe database?"
That's where you can add instructions
They've never put that function into operation. You're just wasting your time if you add the instructions; there's no way to access them later. At least, that has been my experience. I'd be interested if you've been able to access instructions that you saved for the MFP recipe database.0 -
If you add it as a meal instead you can add the ingredients and instructions to it. at least in the app.1
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Dreamyriver wrote: »On the app (android, anyway) if you create a meal you can add instructions for making it. That could be an option if it's a simple recipe and easily broken down into single serve amounts (in which case it's probably best entered as a meal anyway, as it is much easier to amend the individual weights of the ingredients).
It's bizarre that you can do this for a meal but not for a recipe.
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And we are in 2021, but MyFitnessPal still have not added the option to record instructions for recipes, only for meals... Ridiculous!
So, our current options are - for recipes you get ingredients automatically from the website with a recipe, but you are not able to add instructions, nor are you able to share the recipe with friends or other users. Or, you can create a meal where you have to manually add ingredients and search for them in the database one by one, and then you also have an option to add instructions, and share the meal with friends/public. This does not make sense at all.
Why is it so difficult to just merge these three functions (i.e. automatic scrapping of ingredients, ability to record instructions, and sharing with friends) together either in recipes or meals? I am not getting this, really...1 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »I can't figure out how to add the instructions in a recipe. If I upload one, it puts the link to the website, which I don't really want because I often make changes and want those listed. But if I enter it manually, I can't even see where to put them. This particular one I tried to upload but it said "no recipe found" probably because people blog so much the recipe is lost as far as MFP detecting it. That's OK if I could add the instructions!
When you enter a recipe manually on a desktop computer, at the bottom there is an option "Would you like to submit this recipe to the MyFitnessPal recipe database?"
That's where you can add instructions
They've never put that function into operation. You're just wasting your time if you add the instructions; there's no way to access them later. At least, that has been my experience. I'd be interested if you've been able to access instructions that you saved for the MFP recipe database.
Oops, my bad for assuming that worked - I've never wanted to share so never tried it.
When I remake a simple recipe that I found online, I have MFP open in one tab and the site with the recipe in another, and go back and forth.
If it's more complicated, or my prep varied considerably from the original, I put it in a doc and print it out.
There are some things I always vary so don't bother to print that. For example, recipes often over simply, and I know the correct way to do it.1 -
Two comments:
1) For the last two months at least, I've been unable to get MFP to parse any online recipe. (Android app). And even when I copy and paste it makes the craziest guesses. (Like 2 Tbsp chili powder = 27 servings of 1 cup chili.)
2) I really like the Whisk app (free) for recipes! I can add both online and my own recipes.
Here's an example of a recipe that was saved to my Whisk:
https://whi.sk/an0Om0 -
Yes, a year later and functionality has been removed, not added. Thinking specifically of the share meal function. DH & I used that every day for dinner. We miss it. I also would use notes/instructions on recipes if it were available.0
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bold_rabbit wrote: »Two comments:
1) For the last two months at least, I've been unable to get MFP to parse any online recipe. (Android app). And even when I copy and paste it makes the craziest guesses. (Like 2 Tbsp chili powder = 27 servings of 1 cup chili.)
2) I really like the Whisk app (free) for recipes! I can add both online and my own recipes.
Here's an example of a recipe that was saved to my Whisk:
https://whi.sk/an0Om
I can import recipes via desktop. (I only do this for the link to the recipe and the thumbnail.) It does make the craziest guesses, EVEN WHEN I USE SYNTAX THAT I KNOW EXISTS IN THE DATABASE.
I put in syntax from the USDA, MFP "matches" them all incorrectly, then I use Replace, copy and paste, and THEN it finds the right entry.
Last time, the importer got 6 of 6 ingredients wrong, but all but one of them were in fact in the MFP database.0 -
This website is a bit of a nightmare! I'm coming off 12 years with SparkPeople which is shutting down next month. I had to create PDF files of the almost 500 recipes I created over the course of that 12 years because they offered NO way to export them! Now I decide to try MFP and I cannot even enter instructions for a recipe???? That is INSANE!!! That is something that should be standard for every site like this! I cannot import the recipes from Sparkpeople. It simply doesn't work. Says the page doesn't exist. ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!
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The only suggestion I've ever seen acted on was to stop delivering pornographic ads, which was happening by mistake anyway, so not really an adopted suggestion.
Oh, and we did have a "woo" button for a while, but that was rolled out with two allowable and conflicting meanings, and was a complete disaster. Perhaps getting rid of the Woo button was an adopted suggestion, but it took many of us complaining about it, over a long time, and in multiple threads, and perhaps my aggressively flagging posts that misused this reaction had something to do with it as well.
I think of the "MFP Suggestions/Feedback" forum more of a place to vent than to accomplish anything tangible.0 -
ExBrooklyn98 wrote: »This website is a bit of a nightmare! I'm coming off 12 years with SparkPeople which is shutting down next month. I had to create PDF files of the almost 500 recipes I created over the course of that 12 years because they offered NO way to export them! Now I decide to try MFP and I cannot even enter instructions for a recipe???? That is INSANE!!! That is something that should be standard for every site like this! I cannot import the recipes from Sparkpeople. It simply doesn't work. Says the page doesn't exist. ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!
In your situation I would save the pdfs in Google drive.0 -
The first post about this was way back in September 2018. It's now January 2024 and we STILL cant add a note to a recipie.
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