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Frequently Asked Questions
When your subscription expires you will no longer have access to your recipe book, menus or shopping list. However your recipes, friends, saved menus and shopping lists will remain if you decide to renew your subscription. We do not delete accounts unless requested.
Yes! You can purchase gift subscriptions for friends or loved ones and automatically set their account up to share recipes with you.
Gift subscriptions make great gifts for, busy moms, newly weds or those that are new to the vegetarian / vegan lifestyle!
Our Meal Plan subscription have the following price structure:
1-Month $8
12-Months $72 (Save 25%) Only $6.00 Per Month
No, subscriptions are not set to auto-renew by default. (We hate unexpected future payment!) You can however optionally setup auto-renew when signing up or later in your account preferences.
Yes! Our recipe database has both vegetarian and vegan recipes.
The Veggie Meal-Maker Meal Plan subscription is a vegan menu with the option to substitute vegetarian recipe options. Our recipe database has both vegetarian and vegan recipes.
Once your friends have signed up for an account and confirmed the invitation you can view their recipes by visiting the Friends tab in the recipe section. Simply click on the friends username and you can browse their public recipes.
Note: every user has the option to make their recipes public or private. Only public recipes can be viewed.
To share recipes with your friends visit the, “Friends” tab in the recipe section then click the Add Friends button on the left sidebar.
Simply enter your friend's Veggie Meal-Maker login name (i.e. IheartVeggies) or their email address and click on Invite Your Friends. Enter multiple login names or email addresses at once by separating them with commas (i.e. tom@email.com, jane@email.com, sara@email.com, etc.).
Once you click on Send Email Invitations, the system will automatically send your contacts an email inviting current users to share their recipes with you and introducing Veggie Meal-Maker to those who aren't registered.
Confirming Friend Request
When someone requests to add you as a friend, you'll receive an email notification with the subject line "I want to share my recipes with you. Click here to learn how to see your friends recipes and start sharing your own." To add them is a friend click the "Click here" link. You will be taken to your recipe book page if you are already logged in and you should automatically see their login name in your friend list. If you are not logged in you will be able to log in to confirm the friend request.
You can import recipes from about 100+ websites. We have included a list with some of the websites we import from. If you don't see a site on this list try and import from it before asking for it to be included. And if you have trouble importing a recipe from any site please let us know which recipe you had trouble with by providing the URL or web address to the recipe.
• allrecipes.com
• americanfood.about.com
• bbc.co.uk
• bbcgoodfood.com
• bbq.about.com
• bettycrocker.com
• Big Oven
• bhg.com
• bonappetit.com/
• busycooks.about.com
• caloriecount.about.com
• chinese.food.com
• chinesefood.about.com
• cookbooks.com
• cookingchanneltv.com
• cookinglight.com
• dairyfreecooking.about.com
• delish.com
• dev.marthastewart.com
• dollardinners.com
• eatbetteramerica.com
• elise.com
• epicurious.com
• familyoven.com
• finecooking.com
• food.com formerly recipezaar
• food.yahoo.com
• foodandwine.com
• foodnetwork.com
• glutenfreecooking.about.com
• goodhousekeeping.com
• gourmet.com
• grouprecipes.com
• homecooking.about.com
• kidscooking.about.com
• kraftcanada.com
• kraftfoods.com
• kraftrecipes.com
• lowcarbdiets.about.com
• lowfatcooking.about.com
• marthastewart.com
• mealsmatter.org
• myrecipes.com
• oprah.com
• pbs.org
• pillsbury.com
• quakeroats.com
• rachaelraymag.com
• rachaelrayshow.com
• realsimple.com
• recipe4living.com
• recipes.prevention.com
• recipes.sparkpeople.com
• self.com
• simplyrecipes.com
• skinnytaste.com
• tablespoon.com
• taste.com
• tastebook.com
• tasteofhome.com
• tastyplanner.com
• thepioneerwoman.com
• vegetarian.about.com
• vegetariantimes.com
• wholefoodsmarket.com
• wholeliving.com
• williams-sonoma.com
To add a recipe, click on the Add Recipe button in your recipe book, which will pull up a page with a few different options for adding new recipes:
Use the bookmarklet while surfing the web
1. Drag this link, Save Recipe (VMM) to your browser’s bookmark toolbar. If you are using Internet Explorer, right click the link and select “Add to Favorites…” and then save it to your Favorites/Favorites Bar. If the link above doesn’t work, you can also find the bookmarklet when adding a new recipe to Veggie Meal-Maker.
2. The next time you find a recipe on the web that you want to save to your Plan to Eat recipe book, click this bookmark in your browser toolbar and it will display an import window with the recipe automatically imported. If we are unable to automatically import the recipe you can easily copy-and-paste from the recipe to the import window.
3. When you’re ready to save the recipe to your Veggie Meal-Maker recipe book, click the “Save to my recipe book” button.
Search the Web
The fastest way to add a new recipe is to use the Search the Web feature. Search for ingredients, courses, cuisines, servings, etc. to find recipes that you want to try.
Use the 'site:' function to limit your search. For example, searching for “site:allrecipes.com corn bread” will only search allrecipes.com for 'Corn Bread'. To exclude allrecipes.com from your search results, use a minus sign (-) in front, like this: -site:allrecipes.com corn bread.
After you click the Search the Web button to bring up the results, click on the URL to open the full recipe in a new window or Import Recipe to see the full recipe and make any necessary changes. Be sure to add the course, cuisine, grocery categories and tags for easy searching later.
Once complete, click the Save Recipe button and the recipe will be added to your personal Recipe Book.
Copy & Paste the recipe's URL or web address
You can also copy and paste a url for a recipe in the search box and we'll import that specific recipe. We can currently import recipes from over 100 websites.
Click on the Add New Recipe button in your Recipe Book and scroll past the Import feature to add recipes from your own collection.
You can input your own recipes in multiple ways. Input all of the information in each field or use the Bulk Input option for the whole recipe or just the ingredients. To start, click on the Add New Recipe button in your recipe book.
Enter Recipe by Hand
Enter recipes by entering information in each field one by one, or use the bulk input features below to save time when importing recipes from existing text files.
Bulk Input the Ingredients
You can also add ingredients in one text box by clicking on the Bulk Input tab next to the Ingredients tab. Each ingredient needs to be on it's own line. Use a comma after an ingredient's description to add notes or brackets, i.e. [Baking], to add categories, but both are optional.
For example:
2 cups flour [Baking]
1 tsp vanilla [Baking]
2 cups soy milk [Dairy]
Bulk Input the Recipe
The whole recipe bulk input feature allows you to add the entire recipe in one text box. This is very useful if you have an existing recipe database that uses text files or existing recipe software that can export your recipes. The format is very simple and is similar to Meal Master's export format.
When you click on Bulk Input tab, you will see the following headings:
Title:
Description:
Serves:
Source:
Tags:
Ingredients:
Directions:
Fill in the information for each section, putting multiple ingredients and steps on separate lines. Use a comma after an ingredient's description to add notes or brackets, i.e. [Baking], to add categories, but both are optional.
For example:
Title: Easy Morning Glory Muffins
Description: These easy and tasty muffins are a glorious way to start any day. They combine the great taste and chewy texture of carrots with the wonderful flavors of apple, raisins, coconut, walnuts, and cinnamon.
Serves: 12
Source: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Easy-Morning-Glory-Muffins/Detail.aspx
Tags: healthy
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons baking soda [Baking]
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon [Baking]
1/4 teaspoon salt [Dry Goods]
2 cups shredded carrots [Produce]
1/2 cup raisins [Baking]
1/2 cup chopped walnuts [Baking]
1/2 cup unsweetened flaked coconut [Baking]
1 apple, peeled, cored and shredded [Produce]
3 eggs [Refrigerated]
2 cups all-purpose flour [Baking]
1 cup canola oil [Dry Goods]
1 1/4 cups sugar [Baking]
2 teaspoons vanilla extract [Baking]
Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups, or line with paper muffin liners. In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Stir in the carrot, raisins, nuts, coconut, and apple. In a separate bowl, beat together eggs, oil, and vanilla. Stir egg mixture into the carrot/flour mixture, just until moistened. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.
Once complete, click on Import Recipe to review the recipe. After you've made any changes, click the Save Recipe button and the recipe will be added to your personal Recipe Book.
By default Veggie Meal-Maker is your first friend. You can view our recipes under the recipe section under, “Friends”. Here you can browse our recipes then save the ones you like to your recipe book.
To remove a recipe, ingredient or note from your menu simply hover your cursor over the item you wish to remove then select the (-) Minus sign that appears. If you want to duplicate this item on your menu select the (+) Plus sign.
To add an event or individual ingredient to your menu simply click on the day you want to add and a dialog box will appear. Select either Add Other Ingredients or Add Events / Notes. When you have added your ingredient, event or note you can then drag it to the meal you want to display it on. (By default they are added to snacks.)
To add recipes to your menu planner simply click on the recipe you want to plan and drag it to the day / meal you want to place it on.
You can use the search box or recipe filter to help you sort through your recipes.
To load a saved menu (either a VMM suggested menu, a personal menu or a friends menu) you simply drag the desired menu to the day you want to place it on.
After you drag and drop the menu you will see a dialog box that will ask you to confirm loading the menu. Either select confirm or undo.
To save a group of recipes on your menu planner simply click on the, “Menus” tab on the left side bar then click, “Create Menu”. A dialog box will appear requesting that you enter the name of the recipe and the date range. Enter the date range for the saved recipes you wish to make into a menu. This can be a single day, week or more!
Some users will make menus of single meals. Example: A Breakfast of Oatmeal Recipe, Whole Wheat Toast, Fresh fruit and Orange Juice. This short list of recipes and/or ingredients can easily be saved as a menu for quick future drag & drop use.
The amazing thing about our plans is the ability to customize them to your families preferences. Once a saved menu is loaded you can edit the menu by either adding or deleting recipes.
To delete a recipe hover your cursor over the recipe and a “plus & minus” (-/+) signs will appear. Click the minus to delete the recipe. Click the plus to duplicate the recipe.
You can further customize the menu by adding different recipes and individual ingredients.
To load recipes or menus your simply select the recipe or menu you wish to plan (The mouse cursor will change from a pointer to a hand when the item is able to be dragged) then drag it to the desired day/meal.
Veggie Meal-Maker offers weekly menu suggestion. To access these suggested menus visit the planner tab on app.veggiemealmaker.com. On the left sidebar there is a Menu tab – click on this tab to view the suggested menus.
To remove ingredients from your shopping list select the checkbox of the item you wish to remove then click the remove button on the top right (above the My Pantry window).
To add individual ingredients to your shopping list click on the Add Items button at the top of the shopping list. A dialog box will appear where you can add ingredients, choose their category and assign ingredients to specific stores.
To add individual ingredients to your shopping list click on the Add Items button at the top of the shopping list. A dialog box will appear where you can add ingredients, choose their category and assign ingredients to specific stores.
