I’ve been loving the new layout for the recipe page, particularly the hidden nutrition information, the checklist instructions and of course the ingredients in metrics.
Some of the new recipes also look right up my alley, and I’ve been enthusiastically checking them out… but unfortunately at the moment, the recipes aren’t quite user-friendly enough for the recipes to make it to my meal plan. For a while, I’ve just let it go… but it’d also be really, really awesome if you could make some adjustments to the recipes so that I can use them.
Here are my difficulties:
While I LOVE the metric ingredients option, using metric weights for all ingredients just doesn’t work.
Some of the ingredients just sound really clunky. “2g salt” or “8g garlic”, or “1.5g ground cinnamon” - as a person who cooks from recipes 95% of the time, this just isn’t how I measure these ingredients. The “US Customary” measurements are better here, as they use teaspoons and tablespoons. But having to switch to the US Customary tab to find out what 8g of garlic actually means and then converting the US tbsp to a metric tbsp, etc etc… it’s too much messing around to figure out one ingredient. And since a US tsp and metric tsp are the same… why convert these?
Also some ingredients have been measured in quantities that don’t feel right when cooking and particularly meal planning and shopping. “60g carrots”, “250g multi-grain bread” or “100g whole eggs” - again, that isn’t how I measure these ingredients. I understand that for specifying nutritional information, these values need to be specific, but the result is that I now need to weigh or Google these ingredients to work out what I need for the recipe. How about, “1 medium carrot (60g)”?
Today I decided to put up with the odd ingredients list because I was just so tempted by one of the recipes (this one: https://www.fitnessblender.com/articles/hearty-roasted-vegetable-soup-with-couscous). I went to import it into my meal planner and found… it hasn’t been marked up! This is inconvenient but not the end of the world… except then I found that I couldn’t easily copy across the ingredients list OR the preparation instructions.
This article talks a little more about the benefits of adding recipe schema markup to your recipes: https://bootstrapped.ventures/recipe-schema/, and here is more information on the markup: https://schema.org/Recipe. This would help so much for using your recipes in my meal plan and shopping list.
Thank you for reading and hopefully considering these changes - you’ve recently made some fantastic changes to your recipes, and it’d be even more brilliant if they were a bit more user-friendly.
Feature request: adjustments to recipes
Hi Fitness Blender recipe & website teams,
I’ve been loving the new layout for the recipe page, particularly the hidden nutrition information, the checklist instructions and of course the ingredients in metrics.
Some of the new recipes also look right up my alley, and I’ve been enthusiastically checking them out… but unfortunately at the moment, the recipes aren’t quite user-friendly enough for the recipes to make it to my meal plan. For a while, I’ve just let it go… but it’d also be really, really awesome if you could make some adjustments to the recipes so that I can use them.
Here are my difficulties:
While I LOVE the metric ingredients option, using metric weights for all ingredients just doesn’t work.
Some of the ingredients just sound really clunky. “2g salt” or “8g garlic”, or “1.5g ground cinnamon” - as a person who cooks from recipes 95% of the time, this just isn’t how I measure these ingredients. The “US Customary” measurements are better here, as they use teaspoons and tablespoons. But having to switch to the US Customary tab to find out what 8g of garlic actually means and then converting the US tbsp to a metric tbsp, etc etc… it’s too much messing around to figure out one ingredient. And since a US tsp and metric tsp are the same… why convert these?
Also some ingredients have been measured in quantities that don’t feel right when cooking and particularly meal planning and shopping. “60g carrots”, “250g multi-grain bread” or “100g whole eggs” - again, that isn’t how I measure these ingredients. I understand that for specifying nutritional information, these values need to be specific, but the result is that I now need to weigh or Google these ingredients to work out what I need for the recipe. How about, “1 medium carrot (60g)”?
Today I decided to put up with the odd ingredients list because I was just so tempted by one of the recipes (this one: https://www.fitnessblender.com/articles/hearty-roasted-vegetable-soup-with-couscous). I went to import it into my meal planner and found… it hasn’t been marked up! This is inconvenient but not the end of the world… except then I found that I couldn’t easily copy across the ingredients list OR the preparation instructions.
This article talks a little more about the benefits of adding recipe schema markup to your recipes: https://bootstrapped.ventures/recipe-schema/, and here is more information on the markup: https://schema.org/Recipe. This would help so much for using your recipes in my meal plan and shopping list.
Thank you for reading and hopefully considering these changes - you’ve recently made some fantastic changes to your recipes, and it’d be even more brilliant if they were a bit more user-friendly.