Recipes: Create, Edit, & Copy

Recipes allow you to combine multiple ingredients into a single serving, with nutrition information automatically portioned, which you can log on your daily log as a single entry.

Create a Recipe

You can create a recipe by tapping the + button in the bottom navigation or the + button in the top right corner of the food search screen, then:

1. Tap "Create Recipe"

2. Enter the Recipe name

3. Enter the number of servings

4. Add your ingredients

   1. Fun fact: Ingredients can be automatically portioned according to your nutrition goal for that food, just like foods logged to a meal. For example, if you wanted your recipe to contain 100 g of protein from chicken breast, then add chicken breast as an ingredient, enter 100 in the protein field, and observe the ingredient quantity update to provide 100 g of protein. ✨

   2. To delete an ingredient from the recipe, swipe it to the left.

5. Enter the total weight of the whole recipe after cooking (optional but awesome)

   1. This setting gives you an additional serving size option to use when portioning your recipe to eat it. For example, if you cooked a soup yielding 5 servings, then when it comes time eat the soup you'd have to eyeball portioning out 1/5 of it each time you eat it which is imprecise and impractical. However, if this same soup weighed 1,500 g after cooking and you entered that in MacrosFirst, then you could portion the soup by grams in addition to servings when logging it.

6. Add preparation instructions by tapping the + button next to Preparation.

7. Tap the done checkmark in the top right corner to create your recipe.

Edit a Recipe

1. From food search, tap the Recipes tab

2. Tap on the recipe you wish to edit

   1. If you're in a food logging flow, tap the ... button in the top right corner and select Edit Recipe

   2. If you entered from Profile > Saved Foods, Meals & Recipes, then you can make your edits on this screen

3. Make your edits

4. Tap the done checkmark in the top right corner to save your recipe edits.

Copy a Recipe

Copying a recipe is helpful to create different versions of a recipe without have to start from scratch each time.

1. From food search, tap the Recipes tab

2. Tap on the recipe you wish to copy

3. Tap the ... button in the top right corner and select Create Copy

4. Make any edits on the Create Recipe screen and tap the checkmark in the top right corner when done

5. If you're in a food logging workflow, then on the Add Recipe screen, set your serving size and tap the checkmark in the top right corner to log your new recipe to your meal