Recipe Builder Problems

Man, I am having a bunch of problems when entering a new recipe.  I cant get it to acknowledge what I am typing in the box???

I can go look up a product in the food finder and see the calorie count information and enter it exactly as it is listed and it wont recognize it???

I noticed that under the "tips" it says "You can specify any item from our database to be used as an ingredient by entering its ID in square brackets
1 cup milk [88683]"  But I cant find that "ID" anywhere???

Am I missing something or does anyone have any tips?

The id is the numbers at the end of the url. For example: the url for 1% milk is http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-milk-l owfat-fluid-1-percent-i1082

So you would enter the id as [1082].

Hope this helps.

"You can specify any item from our database to be used as an ingredient by entering its ID in square brackets
1 cup milk [88683]"

The number is in the address bar. Just look up the item and then take the number out of the address bar, it is after the "i".

THANKS!!!

Hi,

I need some help please. I understand how to get the number from the URL; however, I am running into trouble if I want to add an item to a recipe that is not already in the Calorie Count database. I have tried adding the item myself under the "Food Log" page, using the "add it here" link, and that works ok, but if I then try to use the item in a recipe it cannot find it.

Do you have any advice please?

Thanks!

As far as I know, you can't access any ingredients for a new recipe that are not in the CC database.

The only workaround I know of is to enter the amount you think you ate directly into your food log, and when you add a serving of your recipe allow for the weight you already entered of the ingredient you left out of the recipe.

Or, I guess you could breakdown the item into components and add each of those to the recipe.

Maybe someone else has a better workaround.

Thank you for the suggestion - I will give that a try. :)