Search, Sort, and Filter Your Recipes
Once you have more than a few recipes in your Recipe Book, search, sort, and filter help you find the right one quickly.
ℹ️ These options are also available in the left sidebar of the Planner. Click the Filter Recipes link above the recipe listing.
Search box
Use the keyword search box at the top of the search options in the left sidebar.
Separate multiple keywords with spaces.
Results include only recipes that contain all of your keywords. Searching for fast healthy chicken won’t return recipes that match just one of those words.
Results are ranked by how many times your keywords appear in a recipe.
Sorting
Sorting changes the order your recipes are listed in, not how many are shown.
Recipes can be sorted by:
Course
Cuisine
Main Ingredient
Title
Tag
Calories
Total Time
Rating
Times Planned
Times Saved
Recently Added
Last Planned
Last Updated
Shuffle
Has Photo
Private
New sorting options
Reverse any sort. Use the arrow next to Sort By to flip the order, such as newest to oldest or highest to lowest.
Last Planned, Last Updated, and Shuffle. Find recipes you haven’t made in a while, see what you’ve edited recently, or mix up your Recipe Book for fresh ideas.
Times Planned and Rating now sort your whole Recipe Book.
ℹ️ Times Saved only applies to recipes saved from a Friend’s account or the Plan to Eat blog. It shows how many times other people have saved that recipe.
Filters
Use the drop-down filters to narrow your recipes by:
Course
Cuisine
Main Ingredient
Tag
Calories (range)
Total Time
Website
Rating
User
Each filter you add makes your results more specific.
Different filter types show recipes that meet all of your criteria. For example, a Course filter plus a Tag filter (Main Course and Paleo) shows recipes that are both.
Multiple filters of the same type show recipes that meet either criterion, with recipes that meet all of them listed first. For example, two Tags (Paleo or Beef) show recipes with either tag, and recipes with both appear at the top.
Ingredient filters
Ingredient filters search only the ingredient list in each recipe. To add an ingredient to any of these filters:
Type the ingredient into the search bar.
Press Enter to add it.
Repeat to add more ingredients.
To remove an ingredient, click the x next to its name.
With ANY Ingredients
Shows recipes that contain at least one of the ingredients you add. If you add “apples” and “cinnamon,” you’ll see recipes with both, just apples, or just cinnamon. Recipes with the most matching ingredients appear first by default (the Most Ingredients Found sort).
With ALL Ingredients
Shows only recipes that contain every ingredient you add. With “apples” and “cinnamon,” you’ll see only recipes that include both.
Without Ingredients
Shows only recipes that contain none of the ingredients you add, which is helpful when you’re avoiding something. Adding “apples” shows every recipe in your Recipe Book without apples.
Combining ingredient filters
Ingredient filters can be combined with the drop-down filters above. Your results will fit all of your criteria.
Random Recipe button
Not sure what to make? Click Random Recipe at the bottom of the search options to get a random recipe.
To narrow the pool first, apply any search or filters before you click. The recipe is chosen from your results. With nothing applied, it’s chosen from your entire Recipe Book.
ℹ️ Random Recipe is available on the website, in the Recipe Book filter and search options.
Saving searches
Once you’ve set up a group of filters, click Save Search at the top of the search section to save your search, sort, and filter criteria.
Saved searches appear in the Saved Searches drop-down menu. Select one to Load, Rename, or Delete it.
Filtering Challenges and Friends recipes
Search, sort, and filter also work when you’re browsing recipes in the Challenges and Friends sections.
How do I search my recipes?