On iOS, swipe down from just above the keyboard to push it off the screen The barcode button may be obscured by your on-screen keyboard, if you have begun typing in ingredients. You may also add some or all of your manual ingredients by scanning a barcode on the food packaging.

Please use a standard ingredient format, for example: In this option, you can type in your list of ingredients, or paste them in from another source. Once you have reached a page showing a recipe's ingredients and instructions, tap the 'Import Recipe' button, then continue to the 'Confirming Ingredients' step, below. You may also manually enter another recipe site to browse, or paste in the exact URL of a recipe copied from your device's web browser. In this option, you will be shown shortcuts to several popular recipe website. Next, choose to 'Add from the Web' of 'Enter Ingredients Manually'

In the Menu (or 'More' screen) tap 'My Recipes & Foods,' then tap '+' while viewing the 'Recipes' tab While logging food, tap the 'Recipes' tab, then scroll down and tap 'Create a New Recipe' You can create a new recipe in two areas of the app: Please note: The recipe importer is currently only available when the device is set to English

“The Recipe Importer feature allows you to quickly import recipes from popular recipe websites, or to easily match lists of manually entered ingredients to food items in our database. Below is an extremely helpful article from MyFitnessPal explaining how to create a recipe in the app: Tracking your favorite recipes in MyFitnessPal is an extremely useful tool, but there is definitely a learning curve.

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