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How to move your recipes from Paprika, Mealie or Tandoor to Fridge Door

Switching recipe apps doesn't mean starting again. Export your recipes from Paprika, Mealie or Tandoor and bring the whole collection into Fridge Door in one go, then plan meals and shop from them as a family.

Step 1: export from your old app

• Paprika: on a computer, select the recipes (or all of them), then File › Export, and choose the Paprika Recipe Format.
• Mealie: tick the recipes in the recipe list, then Export from the actions menu.
• Tandoor: Import/Export › Export, with Default as the type.
• Anything else: many apps and sites export schema.org recipe files (.json) or let you save recipe pages; those work too, alone or in a ZIP.

Step 2: bring them in

1. In Fridge Door, open Recipes, choose Add recipe, then Bring in recipes from Paprika, Mealie, Tandoor or a Fridge Door export.
2. Choose the export file: a .zip, .paprikarecipes, .paprikarecipe, .json or .html file, up to 95 MB.
3. Fridge Door opens it and adds the recipes, with their photos where the export includes them. You can leave the page; it carries on without you.

When it's finished, you'll see which were Added and which were Already here.

A big library?

If your collection is too big for one file, export it in a few parts, by category or a few hundred at a time, and bring each one in.

Then make them yours

Tidy a recipe with Edit, group them into collections, and mark the kids' favourites as Kids' pick. Then plan your first week from them.

Questions

Do the photos come across?

Yes, when the export includes them. Paprika's format carries photos; others vary.

What if some recipes are already in Fridge Door?

They're skipped and listed under Already here, so bringing the same file in twice doesn't make copies.

Can I take my recipes out again later?

Any time. Settings › Household › Download your data gives you everything, and each recipe can be downloaded as a standard recipe file.

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Paprika, Mealie and Tandoor are trademarks of their owners. Fridge Door isn't affiliated with or endorsed by them; their names are used only to explain how they work with Fridge Door.