Every recipe in your Recipe Book has two versions of its ingredient list: the original recipe and the scaled recipe. Understanding the difference makes it much easier to adjust recipes without losing the source you started with.
What's the Difference?
Original tab: Shows the ingredient amounts exactly as the recipe was written, at its original serving size.
Scaled tab: Shows the same recipe, adjusted up or down to whatever serving size you need.
Both tabs display their own serving size, so you can always see what you're looking at. This setup lets you scale a recipe for tonight's dinner without ever losing or overwriting the original version.
One thing to know: when you scale a recipe from your Recipe Book, that scaled amount is saved and will stick around until you change it again. If you only want to scale a recipe for one occasion, do it from the recipe on your Planner instead; that scale won't carry over to your Recipe Book.
How to Scale a Recipe
Open the recipe.
Scroll to the Ingredients section.
Select the Scaled tab.
Change the number in "Serves."
Click Scale to save it.
How to Edit the Original Recipe
Follow the same steps above, but select the Original Ingredients tab instead.
Keep in mind: any edits you make here update the original recipe at its original serving size, not the scaled version.
A Few More Things to Know
Scaling in your Recipe Book won't affect recipes already on your Planner. If a recipe is already planned and you want to change its serving size, you'll need to scale it directly from the Planner.
Yield vs. serving size: Yield is the total amount a recipe makes (like a whole pan of lasagna), while serving size is how many individual portions that yield breaks down into.
Using the Freezer feature? You'll be asked how many meals you're making and how many servings are in each one. Those per-meal servings are based on your recipe's original serving size. Learn more about using the Freezer.