Whichever way a recipe comes in, Family Meal Board reads the ingredients and steps and opens a draft for you to check. Nothing is saved until you tap Save.
Paste a link from a recipe site
Copy the address of a recipe page and paste it in. Most recipe sites publish their recipes in a standard format that Family Meal Board can read directly. When a site doesn't, it reads the page itself and picks out the ingredients and directions.
Send a page from your browser
A few sites block anything but a person's browser. For those, add the "Send to" bookmark once (Settings walks you through it on Android and iPhone). On a recipe page, tap the bookmark and the page you're looking at is sent straight to your recipes.
Share from your phone
On Android, once Family Meal Board is installed from Chrome, it shows up in the Share menu. Share a recipe link from any app and it opens ready to import. On iPhone and iPad, use the bookmark or paste the link.
Import a TikTok recipe
Share or paste a TikTok link and Family Meal Board reads the video's caption, where most recipe creators put the ingredients and steps. It keeps the creator's section headings ("For the sauce") and leaves out the sign-offs. If a video's caption doesn't include the recipe, there's nothing to read, and it will say so.
Snap a cookbook page or a recipe card
Take a photo, or pick up to four from your camera roll for a recipe that runs across pages. The photo is read on Family Meal Board's own server, not sent to an outside service.
- Reads well: printed cookbook pages, magazine clippings, printouts and typed recipe cards.
- Mostly doesn't read: handwriting. For Grandma's handwritten cards, type them in once; they're worth it.
Always compare the amounts in the draft with the page before saving. A smudge can turn 1½ into 11.
Paste or type it
Recipe in an email, a text or a note on your phone? Paste the whole thing. Family Meal Board finds the ingredient list and the steps and lays them out.
Keep the recipe box tidy
- Meal types: mark each recipe as breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack so it lands in the right part of the menu.
- Seasons: tag soups for fall and winter and grilled dinners for summer. Recipes without a season can come up any time.
- Favorites: starred recipes come up more often.
- Paused: keep sauces, rubs and side dishes in the box without them showing up as a dinner.
- Backup: download a copy of your family's recipes, menus and history from Settings whenever you like.