Guide | My Family Cookbook

Sharing & Syncing

Your recipes, meal planner, and grocery list can be synced across your devices and shared with family members and friends.

Sync Across Your Devices

Syncing occurs automatically across all of your devices. When you make changes to your recipes, meal planner, or grocery list on one device, those changes are automatically reflected on your other devices — including the devices of family members and friends with whom you've shared your cookbook.

Plan on One Device, Shop on Another

For example, you can do your meal planning and build your grocery list on your iPad. Your meal plan, grocery list, and recipes will then be available on your iPhone when you — or a family member you're sharing with — head to the grocery store.

Home View

The Home View displays all of your recipes. Tap any recipe to view the details for that recipe.

Home View Features

Search

Use the search bar to filter your recipes by recipe name.

Filter by Category

Use the filter icon to filter your recipes by recipe category.

Favorites

Use the favorite icon to show only recipes you've marked as favorites.

Tip: You can use the category filter and favorites filter together. For example, select a recipe category and then Favorites to show only your favorite recipes within that category.

Recipe Detail View

The Recipe Detail View displays all of the information for the selected recipe. Use the back arrow in the upper-left corner to return to the Home View.

Recipe Detail View Features

Favorite

Mark or unmark the recipe as a favorite.

Edit Recipe

Edit the recipe's details, including its ingredients, instructions, and other information.

Delete Recipe

Delete the recipe from your cookbook.

Add Recipe Ingredients: The Recipe Detail View also includes an Add Recipe Ingredients feature that lets you select ingredients from the recipe and add them directly to your grocery list.

Grocery List View

The Grocery List View displays your current grocery list, grouped by your grocery items and by recipe.

You can add your own grocery items directly from this view, and swipe left on an individual item to delete it. Ingredients can also be added to the grocery list from an individual recipe or from recipes in next week's meal plan.

Grocery List View Features

Filter

Limit the grocery list to items from a specific recipe or to your own grocery items.

Add Meal Planner Recipes

Add ingredients from the recipes in next week's meal plan to your grocery list.

Normalize & Combine Ingredients

Normalize ingredient names and combine matching ingredients to simplify your grocery list.

Erase Selected Ingredients

Remove selected ingredients from the grocery list.

Clear Grocery List

Delete all items from the current grocery list.

Categorize Ingredient

Assign a grocery category to an ingredient to keep your shopping list organized.

Tip: If you change the category of an ingredient, My Family Cookbook remembers that choice and uses the same category the next time that ingredient is added to the grocery list.

New Recipe View

The New Recipe View is where you can enter your own recipes into My Family Cookbook. Enter the recipe details, select a category, add as many ingredients as needed, and save the completed recipe to your cookbook.

New Recipe View Features

Recipe Category

Use the dropdown list to select the category for your recipe.

Add Ingredients

Add multiple ingredients to your recipe as needed.

Save Recipe

Save the completed recipe to My Family Cookbook.

Meal Planner View

The Meal Planner View is where you plan your meals for the following week.

Each day includes an Add Recipe feature that lets you select a meal type and choose a recipe from your cookbook. Tap an individual recipe in the meal plan to view that recipe's details.

To remove an individual recipe from the meal plan, swipe left on the recipe and delete it.

Meal Planner View Features

Show This Week's Plan

View the meal plan for the current week instead of next week's meal plan.

Clear Meal Planner

Delete all recipes from the current meal plan.

Tip: Tap any recipe in the Meal Planner to quickly view its recipe details. To remove just one recipe from the plan, swipe left on that recipe and delete it.

Load Recipes View

The Load Recipes View allows you to load the default recipes supplied with My Family Cookbook. This feature is also useful for restoring default recipes that you may have accidentally deleted.

Load Recipes View Features

Load Default Recipes

Select which of the supplied default recipes you would like to add to your cookbook.

Note: If additional default recipes are included with future releases of My Family Cookbook, you can use this feature after upgrading to add the new recipes while leaving all of your existing recipes in place.

Import from Web View

The Import from Web View allows you to automatically import recipes from your favorite recipe websites and blogs into My Family Cookbook.

Importing a Recipe

Copy the URL of the recipe webpage from your browser, paste it into the Recipe URL field, and tap the Fetch button. My Family Cookbook will retrieve the available recipe information and prepare it for you to review.

Import from Web View Features

Save Recipe

Save the imported recipe to My Family Cookbook.

Tip: After fetching a recipe, you can review and change its title, author, and recipe category as needed before saving it to your cookbook.

About View

The About View provides important information about My Family Cookbook, along with options to rate and share the app and to share your cookbook with family and friends.

About View Features

Rate This App

Rate My Family Cookbook and provide feedback about your experience with the app.

Share This App

Share the My Family Cookbook App Store link with family and friends.

Share This Cookbook

Share your cookbook with family members and friends so they can access the recipes, meal planner, and grocery list you share with them.

Note: The Rate This App feature also gives you an opportunity to provide feedback about My Family Cookbook.

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