New Feature: Recipe Calculator
I'm happy to announce that we just launched our first pass at a recipe calculator. To try it out, click on the "Food" tab, then click "Recipes", and finally, click the "Enter new recipe" button on the right. You'll be taken to a page where you can find the nutritional content of your recipe by entering in it's ingredients.
Once you've saved your recipe, you can add it to your food diary by clicking on the new "Recipes" tab in your favorites lists. All of the recipes you've saved will be visible on that tab and can be added just like any other food. Please note that at this time, recipes CANNOT be searched for - they must be added from this tab.
We've also added an option to submit your recipe to the MyFitnessPal recipe database. We're collecting submissions now, and once we have a big enough collection, we'll create a recipe section on the site where you can find new recipes to try from other members.
In the long term, we'd like to make entering a recipe much easier - the process we launched with works but it's a bit cumbersome to enter in your ingredients and we think we can make it much better. In the interest of getting something out quickly, though, we decided to just launch with this process now (which was easier for us to build), and we'll try to improve it later.
Also, at this time, the iPhone app does not have the ability to create recipes. We'll be adding recipes to the app shortly, but for now, recipes can be created on the website only.
As always, if you have any questions/issues/comments, please let us know.
Thanks, and hope you are all enjoying the site.
Mike & Al



God, I'm so excited, lol!!
Also if you could take a peek at these topics on the tech support would appreciate it :)
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/105280-closing-diary-for-the-day
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/97988-anyone-else-having-problems-with-their-newsfeed
Thanks for all you are doing for us love coming in here everyday great work :D
Love, love, love this site. :) Can't wait to get home and try it out myself.
Thanks again!
Brenna
Awesome addition!
However, one of my main issues with recipe calculators in general (and this one is no exception) is that a lot of the measures for an ingredient are in American cup sizes - which is great if you live in the US or use American cup sizes when measuring ingredients. I live in the UK and measure things in grams and/or ounces (British ounces at that too!) and while it's a chore to try and work out what the measures are, I'll do it because I'm trying to be as accurate as I can with my daily calorie intake.
oh where do I find the iphone app?
Not to where If I don't fill in each and every field it won't log it, but I'd love to go back and see that today I did 7.9mph where as yesterday I only did 6.4 mph that kinda of thing.
Much thanks!
One idea that I'm sure you've already thought of, it would be fab if you could add ingredients from your favourites.
It would be great if I were able to add one of my recipes to another one of my recipes.
For instance, I have a meat sauce that I use for spaghetti. I also use this meat sauce in a baked ziti recipe. At this point, I cannot see any way to add my meat sauce to my ziti recipe.
Thanks,
Mike