Editing recipe ingredients individually when added to food diary

michellemri
michellemri Posts: 13 Member
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Is it possible to have recipe items imported to your food diary individually? Sometime I change one ingredient of the recipe depending on food I have on hand, but it looks like you can only import 1 full serving of the original recipe?

I just changed from MyMacros+ to here and they had an option saying, "Import this recipe as a single serving or as individual ingredients". If you added the individual ingredients but used chicken instead of pork, it was an easy edit, but I haven't figured that out here…

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,074 Member
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    If you save your ingredients as a meal, rather than create a recipe, that meal will be added to your diary ingredient per ingredient. That's one of the reasons I never use the recipe builder and always use Meals.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,349 Member
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    exactly what @lietchi says.

    Use meals You can import them to your diary and individual ingredients are posted. That lets me tinker with whether I used liquid whey or skim milk in my biscuits. Or did I add a full serving of Greek yogurt to my smoothie versus half a serving of cottage cheese.

    I only have to tinker with the individual ingredients that need changing.

    Plus meals give you the option to copy and edit, if you're making big changes (like when I totally revamped my lasagna earlier this year).

    Recipes don’t allow you to copy. Very aggravating.

    In any event, the few recipes I’ve imported from the web have been wildly incorrect. I always hand enter new recipes under meals to make sure they’re accurate.

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  • gypsywoman493756
    gypsywoman493756 Posts: 2 Member

    glad to read this post as I do most of my meals from scratch ( and make large portions tsp I can freeze individually for future meals) I will switch to meals if that is the way to get MY menu in there.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,208 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48586146#Comment_48586146

    Minor note about "Recipes don't allow you to copy."

    They do, but AFAIK only in the web browser version of MFP - at least I don't know how to do it in the phone/tablet app, if it's possible there.

    In web browser MFP, it's Food tab, Recipes, find the recipe you want to copy (that's the tricky part), hover the cursor over the recipe, then the "copy" option will appear to the right of the recipe name. You can then edit the copied recipe as needed.

    I agree that using Meals often works better, though.

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