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I have been browsing at the recipes on here and there are some great ones but it is rather a maze to find anything as they are not in any sort of order also there is quite a lot of chat on some of them so it is being used like the normal threads on the other forums rather than just for recipes
Would it be better if there was some headings for them.. ie Meat dishes,puddings,cakes and breads,vegetables etc... and just put the recipe only not anything else then if someone is looking for say a cake recipe they could go straight to that heading and not have to trawl through the whole lot to find one.
Is there an administrator here who is clever with the computer who could lay it out so that if we have a recipe to add or we are looking for something to make we could go to a Recipe forum under Food and Nutrition then select the heading we want
 
Do you mean lock the threads once a recipe has been posted? This might be difficult if anyone has a query and the OP can't reply, although your right that threads can get cluttered.
 
No... As I suggested a few weeks ago..

Breakfast
Snacks
Lunch
Dinners
Puds

Would make it a lot easier...
 
AnnieC said:
I have been browsing at the recipes on here and there are some great ones but it is rather a maze to find anything as they are not in any sort of order also there is quite a lot of chat on some of them so it is being used like the normal threads on the other forums rather than just for recipes
Would it be better if there was some headings for them.. ie Meat dishes,puddings,cakes and breads,vegetables etc... and just put the recipe only not anything else then if someone is looking for say a cake recipe they could go straight to that heading and not have to trawl through the whole lot to find one.
Is there an administrator here who is clever with the computer who could lay it out so that if we have a recipe to add or we are looking for something to make we could go to a Recipe forum under Food and Nutrition then select the heading we want
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I completely agree Annie, I have often seen a recipe and then wanted to find it later but it's practically impossible to find again.
I don't know whether it would be possible to set something up but it would be really helpful if it was.
 
Why not start threads titled like that in the recipe section? Anything you see and like from the recipe thread copy paste it in the relevant thread?
 
Yes we could all copy and paste them when we see a new one. I know there's one in my thread for instance.
 
noblehead said:
Do you mean lock the threads once a recipe has been posted? This might be difficult if anyone has a query and the OP can't reply, although your right that threads can get cluttered.
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I don't think I mean lock it noblehead All I mean really is an easier way to search the recipes so we don't have to trawl through all the threads to find what we want
 
AnnieC said:
I don't think I mean lock it noblehead All I mean really is an easier way to search the recipes so we don't have to trawl through all the threads to find what we want
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I see, I've not tried to search for a recipe before so not sure how difficult it is, you should start a Conversation (private message) with Giverny and put your suggestions to her.
 
Janiept said:
I completely agree Annie, I have often seen a recipe and then wanted to find it later but it's practically impossible to find again.
I don't know whether it would be possible to set something up but it would be really helpful if it was.
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Yes I agree and the more that are put on there the more difficult it becomes to find anything you want What we need is a.. Recipes.. only thread. without comments.. and a way to sort them into the different catergories.If people need to know more about a recipe then they could message whoever put it on to ask tthem When looking for food recipes newbies who are changing their eating ways must find the thread really difficult to find anything
 
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Andy12345 said:
Why not start threads titled like that in the recipe section? Anything you see and like from the recipe thread copy paste it in the relevant thread?
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Yes I think I can see how that would work Andy but wouldn't we still have to go through all the recipes already on the thread until we find ones we like to copy and paste
 
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A lot of newbies do ask what they should eat and for recipes mostly they are told to look on the thread..What have you eaten today...but this is another thread that just gets bigger and bigger so they would have to spend ages browsing it just to find say a main meal idea or if they want a recipe for a diabetic friendly cake they could spend forever trying to find one on the recipes thread
 
AnnieC said:
Yes I think I can see how that would work Andy but wouldn't we still have to go through all the recipes already on the thread until we find ones we like to copy and paste
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So your asking admin to do it? Lol
 
AnnieC said:
I have been browsing at the recipes on here and there are some great ones but it is rather a maze to find anything as they are not in any sort of order also there is quite a lot of chat on some of them so it is being used like the normal threads on the other forums rather than just for recipes
Would it be better if there was some headings for them.. ie Meat dishes,puddings,cakes and breads,vegetables etc... and just put the recipe only not anything else then if someone is looking for say a cake recipe they could go straight to that heading and not have to trawl through the whole lot to find one.
Is there an administrator here who is clever with the computer who could lay it out so that if we have a recipe to add or we are looking for something to make we could go to a Recipe forum under Food and Nutrition then select the heading we want
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This can be done! I'll look to add this in to the next big forum update :)
 
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