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This site is great! My son even likes to go thru it and pick a recipe for dinner.
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| I think it is incredible that you can type in your own recipies and get the nutrition count for them. Now you can find out what recipies handed down you can make again with no fear. Of course that leaves out the old r4ecipies with 1 cup of butter and 1 cup of cream!!
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| A great sister site! I'd love to see a link to it at the bottom of every page, perhaps another option next to "Free Diet / Calorie Counter / Pregnancy". It would be a logical place to put it!
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XPOETIC_ANGELX
3/10/07 11:37 A
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| Wow, I just checked it out, and it looks awesome! I think I'll pick a recipe out to make for tom. night! Thanks sparkpeople!
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| What a great improvement to an already great feature! I'm relatively new here, and love the recipe feature, and plan to make good use of entering my own recipes. Being able to enter foods I've already manually entered and edit the recipe will greatly improve functionality, and make cooking and tracking meals all that much easier. Thanks!
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BTW - another relevent link that might be easier to grasp is: http://www.cspinet.org/nah/01_07/cspinews.pdf - this article is what you guys are all about.
By the way I've written to Nutrition Action to ask them to Profile Sparkpeople in a coming newsletter.
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OSAUSSIE
Wow, thanks for the thoughtful and well-written feedback! We have some of those items on our to do list and some we haven't thought of, so we'll keep all of them in mind!
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I like it, but...If it trully is a part of sparkpeople it should be seemless between the two sites. Links and data need to be shared between the sites, as well as login info.
My recipe box, I've saved a whole heap of recipes from spark people emails to my favorites - they should be in my recipe box too. And I should have search, browse, and sort capabilities on my recipe box too - it's going to get HUGE! I need to be able to differentiate between recipes I've submitted, that I like (that others have rated), recipes I've been sent, that I'd like to try (but haven't gotten around to yet), and recipes I like and tried and have rated ( for the general public) that I want to use again. The ones I didn't like I would probably remove. So I really need to see the public rating, and then have it overwritten in My recipes by my rating - a lot like what netflix does with DVDs. You could also add a "not interested", so when I see recipes I don't like or am not interested in, they are flagged not to be included in my search/browse.
I would then like that when I was planing my nutrition for the week I could select from those recipes would be in my list. It needs to be another tab on the "choose a food", which I can select, not a link from each sparkrecipes. The link it currently brings up is for today, there's a lot of backwards and forwards to organise recipes I want to try into the appropriate day. Alternatively (or additionally) you need a calendar applet on Choose a food, so you can be sure you are entering the food/recipe into the correct day.
I'm used to using recipe editors like epicurious, and their browsing is by far superior. Your categories may have to go to a second layer, cause to browse appetizer recipes, I also have to get every soup and salad.
As another member said, it would be good search for pumpkin - but I get 100+ recipes - some of them duplicates. I'd like to sort (decending or acending) by public rating, my rating, editors pick, by calories, time to cook or key ingredient match. but go one futher than epicurious - go for I want recipes low in fat, low in sodium, high in fiber (as a percentage of serving) etc. and allow me to save this search in my profile. It would be nice to have a profile, so the search could tell, I'm vegetarian, or vegan, or whatever dietary preference/goal I have, so I don't have to constantly do an exclusive search for recipes.
Also, if you have a recipe rated as bad and sits on the site for some time with noone else trying it, you might want to consider a review policy to remove it. Personally I don't want my recipe searches to include bad reviews. It would be nice to have an advances search where I could specify such things.
And it would be PHENONOMAL that the editorial could add some eye candy symbol, that nutritionally rates the recipes published and foods by an at a glance food label (calculated from the nutriton table) - thus graphically leading the folks (and the FDA) towards making healthy choices: http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/healthy_symbol_petition.pdf
While you could initially give users a set of standard items to include in their traffic light, it would be great if you could allow them to choose a small set of factors that they personally need to track for their dietary/nutritional needs, eg. soduim, folate, calcium, fiber etc. Now that would trully be a useful thing.
Ok enough for now - enjoy the comments.
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Oh well, can't have everything I guess! I did comment on the recipe page about the lack of fiber in the nutrition area of it, but I know how much fiber was in it, so it's really no big deal.
Thank you for answering!!
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LIZS33
You can only edit your own recipes. If you think someone left out an ingredient you can leave a comment on the recipe if you'd like.
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I'm a little confused on the editing feature. Can I edit a recipe in there or only my own? I made a recipe that has no fiber listed and I KNOW the ingredients have fiber, so I want to edit it to include the fiber content. Can I do this and if so, how?
Thanks!!
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LUCKYSPRITE030
3/7/07 7:51 P
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I love it - and before I checked it out - I thought 'oh no' - now I have to enter all of my current recipes again. (and now I can edit them without having to 'recreate' the whole thing if I change something about it.
Thanks SP for thinking one step ahead of me...
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Love the look and the way you can choose vegetarian only! Thank you!
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BEMORESTUBBORN
3/7/07 5:20 P
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| I spoke too soon - I keep having to log on over and over again on the recipe site and there's no link back to SparkPeople "my home" or anything else, for that matter. ARGH!
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I love it!! WAY TO GO SparkPeople!!!
Thanks for making this site even better!
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JALEPENOANN
3/7/07 3:47 P
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I love the new look and the ability to edit my recipes. Way to go Spark People!!
I never even notice the ads. They're what keeps the site free though, so a small price to pay.
Ann
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BEMORESTUBBORN
3/7/07 2:53 P
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| Love the new look! HATE THE ADS!
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RUSSELL.GOEREND
3/7/07 2:14 P
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just what I've been looking for!! now you just need a favicon for my bookmark :)
-russ
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APPLEPIEDREAMS
3/7/07 12:54 P
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That's great! I love how easy it is to edit recipes now and that I can save my favorites. It's great that everything transferred too.
And I really like that it looks like you can search by dietary need (including vegetarian). So if you click the vegan or vegetarian link then nothing else will show up but those dishes.
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| I think this is great! I love you guys more!!! I'm so addicted to watching the Food Network, and now you've made an entire site dedicated to recipes. Great job!
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| This sound great. My hubby will love this. He is cooking a lot more since he can get SparkPoints for using a recipe.
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| This is great!! Thank you Spark, you've just made this site even easier and better than it already was!!!
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| The sparkrecipes site looks great. I love now having the ability to edit my recipes and use manually entered foods.
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I just checked out the new SparkRecipes and I'm loving it! I am so happy we can finally pull foods we've previously entered into a recipe and not have to enter it each time!
Thanks SparkPeople!
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Nice :) but vegetarian and fish are still together
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GREENIEONE
3/6/07 10:45 A
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| ooooooo .... I'm lovin' this update! I'm especially tickled that we can now edit our recipes. woo-hoo! Thanks SparkPeople!
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DJHEILMANN
3/6/07 10:30 A
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Hey everyone! After many many requests, we have greatly enhanced our recipe functionality. We are actually going to have this recipe site on a "sister" site to SparkPeople called SparkRecipes.com. You'll be able to use your SparkPeople.com username and password on SparkRecipes, and easily click between both sites.
On SparkRecipes, you'll be able to do things like:
- Search recipes
- Browse by multiple categories, including meal type, ethnicity, and dietary needs
- Rate and comment on recipes
- Use your recipe box to access recipes you've submitted, rated, and added as favorites
- Edit recipes you've submitted or saved
- Include foods you've manually entered when using the recipe calculator
Here are a few more notes about how SparkRecipes will work with SparkPeople if you submitted recipes using SparkPeople's Recipe Calculator in the past:
- Approved recipes will appear as "Editor's Choice" recipes on SparkRecipes.
- Disapproved recipes will not appear on SparkRecipes (but will appear in your Recipe Box)
- recipes that were pending approval will appear on SparkRecipes when members search and browse.
- We will continue to approve member-submitted recipes that are rated highly, healthy, and a good fit for the SparkRecipes site. You will earn 10 SparkPoints for each recipe that our editors approve!
To access the new recipe site, you can go to www.sparkrecipes.com. You can also click on Resource Center, Recipes, then find a link to SparkRecipes (where the link to the Recipe Calculator used to be). You can rate and comment on recipes, submit new recipes, and perform a variety of other functions. If you have find any problems or questions please post them in our new SparkRecipes Feedback and Support Forum. Thanks!
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