When you start with Plan to Eat, your recipe book will be empty, but you have multiple options for adding recipes.

1) Recipe Clipper

You can add the Recipe Clipper Extension to your browser or use our Share Extension Clipper on a mobile device.

  1. Find a recipe on the web you’d like to save.
  2. Use the Recipe Clipper to add it to your Plan to Eat account
  3. The recipe will appear in an import window, where you can review and make any necessary changes.
  4. Click the Save button at the top right to successfully add the recipe to your Plan to Eat account.

Learn more about the app and browser Recipe Clippers.


2) Import from Web

You can search and import recipes from within your Plan to Eat recipe book.

  1. Click on the Import from Web button, which will open up a page with a search bar at the top.
  2. You now have two options:
    • you can paste a recipe URL, which you’ve already copied from a website
    • or you can type in a search
  3. Then click on the Import Recipe button of the recipe you’d like to add to your PTE account
  4. Press Save Changes when you’re finished reviewing the recipe.

When searching, you can type in any keywords associated with the recipes you’d like to find and the Google generated search will populate the 100 most popular recipes for that keyword. 


3) Add Recipes by Hand

Recipes from cookbooks, Word, PDFs, JPEGs, or .DOCs will need to added by hand. 

  1. Click the Add Recipe button.
  2. This will open a blank recipe card where you can fill in all the information.
  3. Use the Bulk Import tab in the ingredients section to copy and paste all the ingredients at once.
  4. Add spaces between lines of recipe directions to separate them into different steps.
  5. Press the Save button in the upper right when you're finished. 

Learn more about adding recipes from your own collection.


4) Bulk Import File

You can import files from other recipe apps as well as .zip, .html, .csv and .txt files.

  1. From the Add Recipe button, click on the Import recipes from file button
  2. Select your file format
  3. Upload the file and then import the recipes. 
  4. There's an option to overwrite existing recipes, if there are duplicates in your import. However, this will permanently replace your existing duplicate recipes and cannot be undone.

Learn more about importing recipes from a bulk import file.

 

 

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