How do I change recipes on the app when logging?

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bmcm2girls
bmcm2girls Posts: 3 Member
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There are a few recipes I am wanting to try on the mfp app. However, I would change things like use quinoa for brown rice or chick pea/lentil pasta for whole grain pasta. Is there a way to save the entire recipe to my diary but then change that one item to what I actually use?

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  • SuzanneC1l9zz
    SuzanneC1l9zz Posts: 452 Member
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    One of the steps when you're importing it is to check the ingredients to make sure it's importing them correctly. You can swap things out/ customise it at that point.
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
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    You can always remove and replace diary entries for ingredients, but you might want to use the recipe builder. You should be able to import the recipe from the MFP blog, with the usual caveats to triple-check the entries it pulls from the database for accuracy, and then remove and replace the ingredients you want to substitute. You can go into your recipes and edit them, it won't affect previously-logged instances of the recipe (which also means if you try to pre-log a serving of a recipe and then go edit the recipe, you need to remove that entry and replace it with the updated one).
  • bmcm2girls
    bmcm2girls Posts: 3 Member
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    Thank you both! However, now I am not finding the recipe on the blog? It is on the app but not the blog so is there a way to load it from the app? I can't seem to find a way?
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
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    Yeah, that's a known problem that MFP's owners seem loath to do anything about. UA definitely didn't care, I don't know if the new owners are going to do anything about it - I think they're busy with the influx of Russian porn bots right now.

    It looks like adding recipes directly to the diary from the Recipes tab in the app is a Premium feature, and I'm a free-version pleb, so you might need to just manually add a new recipe with the ingredients you want to use. The desktop version of the recipe builder is IMO easier to use and crashes less often. I use the recipe builder like this all the time, manually inputting my own recipes - even if I'm following a recipe from somewhere, I usually tweak something because I need to sub an ingredient, or I have more/less of an ingredient than the recipe calls for, or the seasonings are woefully insufficient, or I thought such-and-such would also be a welcome addition, something like that.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,912 Member
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    bmcm2girls wrote: »
    Thank you both! However, now I am not finding the recipe on the blog? It is on the app but not the blog so is there a way to load it from the app? I can't seem to find a way?

    I don't use the app so disregard if N/Ap. When I want to get something from my phone to my computer I share it to myself in Skype and then get the link from Skype in my PC. If you can do this and it creates a link, you can then import it using:

    https://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe_parser

    Note: I assume EVERY match will be wrong and mainly use the import function for the thumbnail and link to the recipe. I generally need to replace every entry with entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database.
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
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    @kshama2001 oh, I do the same thing with Discord! I set up my own server and it's just for transferring links and images between my phone and computer, LOL. So convenient.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,912 Member
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    goal06082021 wrote: »
    @kshama2001 oh, I do the same thing with Discord! I set up my own server and it's just for transferring links and images between my phone and computer, LOL. So convenient.

    Someone will probably come along with a better method that will blow our minds :lol:

    To that someone - I have an iphone.

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