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​What is Recipe?
​How to create a recipe?
​Recipe Preview
​How to assign the recipe to a Client or a Meal Plan?
​What your Clients will experience?
​Replace a recipe
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This feature allows coaches to create customized recipes, including ingredient lists, cooking instructions, and nutritional information, to help their clients achieve their health and wellness goals.

The Recipes feature is included in the Pro or Studio plans.

Navigate to the Library tab on the left-side menu, select Recipes, and click on the Create New Recipe button.

​It will use a random cover image by default. You can upload your own recipe image to replace it on the Create Recipe pop-up or change it later on the Recipe detail screen.

3.1. Add Description

Adding a description is not necessary, but it could help your clients understand the overall information about a recipe, beyond the basic ingredients and instructions as well the key aspects of the recipe.

3.2. Add Category

You can select multiple options to categorize your recipe, including Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, Soup, Salad/Bowl or Others.

3.3. Add Prep Time & Cooking Time

Adding Prep Time is optional but adding Cooking Time is required to publish the recipe.

3.4. Add the number of servings

The default number of servings is 1. You can add it up to match the portion size of your recipe.

3.5. Add Diatery Information

Adding Diatery Information is optional, but it could help to provide your clients with important details about the nutritional composition and dietary considerations of the meal.

3.6. Add Ingredients

Clicking on + Add Ingredients button to open the corresponding pop-up with a list of the system ingredients. In this pop-up, you can type the ingredient name to search or click on the incrediant category to quickly display all ingredients that belong to the category you want to focus.

All selected ingredients will be displayed on the Ingredients list. You will need to add value for each of the added ingredients to publish the recipe, according to the ingredient unit which you can adjust.

3.7. Add Instructions

Adding a YouTube/Vimeo instructions video is optional, but it could help to provide your clients with a visual demonstration of the cooking process.
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If your recipe doesn't require the Preparation instructions, you can leave it empty. But the Cooking instructions are necessary to publish the recipe. You can add the image for each of the steps to make it easier for your clients to follow along and successfully replicate the recipe.

3.8. Add Nutrition Infomation

You will need to add the basic macronutrients (Protein/Carbs/Fat) to your recipe. The other macronutrients (Saturated Fat, Sugar, Fiber...) are optional. Please notice that macronutrients are for only 1 serving.

After adding all the necessary information and data, you can save your recipe as a Draft. You will need to publish the recipe to assign it to your clients or add it to the Meal Plan.

On your Recipes Library, it will only show the published recipes by default, into All Published Recipes and Your Published Recipes categories.

If you want to see the draft recipes, you will need to click on the Show Draft button to enter the draft recipe list.

Navigate to the Client's Meal Plan screen, then click on + Add Recipe button of each meal category (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) to open a corresponding pop-up to add the recipe.

You can click on each particular date on the left-side bar's calendar to select a different date to assign the recipe to the client.

Please see this article.

If there are meals assigned for today, your clients will see those recipes displayed on the Today's Meals section of the Today screen.

Clicking on a meal will navigate to the meal detail screen where your clients can see all the necessary information, detailed instructions, and macronutrients for the meal.

Your clients can navigate to the Coaching screen to see an overview of the meals assigned for this week.

Clicking on the container will navigate to the Meal Plan screen which shows all assigned meals for the week (default is this week), along with the meal categories and weekly nutrition averages.

Clicking on a day will navigate to the Day detail screen where the Daily Nutrition and all assigned meals are displayed, organized by the meal categories (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner...).

Clicking on the Shopping List button will show the total ingredients of all meals with the quantities that need to be prepared for the week. Your clients can tap on each ingredient to check it off once it's already prepared.

Your clients can log their meals to Macros by clicking on the Log Meal button on the top-left of the meal detail screen.

They can adjust the number of servings to the actual intake of calories. Once the meal is logged to Macros, you will be notified by a corresponding notification.

Once the Allow client to replace recipes setting is enabled, the clients will be able to replace an assigned recipe with a recipe in the Recipe Library of the coach.

The clients are only able to replace a recipe for the current week from Today and next week.

Simply click on the ٠٠٠ button on the top-left of the meal detail screen then click on Replace Meal. From there, the clients can select any available meal to replace.
Once the meal is replaced, the coach will be notified by a corresponding notification.