Import Your Favorite Recipes

Your recipes, not a stranger's catalog

Tuna doesn't hand you a feed of recipes to dig through, and that's deliberate. The recipes worth cooking are the ones your household already loves: the weeknight pasta that always works, the chili from the card in Grandma's handwriting, the stir-fry you've made forty times.

So the library starts empty on purpose. Bring in the dinners you make most, and Tuna connects each one to your pantry. That connection is what lets Tuna tell you what you can make right now, and which recipes use the food that needs eating.

Bring them in

Two ways, pick per recipe:

• Paste a link. Tuna pulls the ingredients, steps, servings, times and photo from almost any recipe site or blog.
• Snap a photo of the cookbook page. Point the camera at a cookbook or a recipe card. Tuna reads it into the same clean structure. A recipe that runs over several pages can take more than one photo.

On the Recipes tab, tap + and choose how you're bringing it in.

Amounts come in as the recipe wrote them, can sizes included ("1 (28 oz) can"), and Tuna marks which ingredients each step uses, so they stand out when you cook. Everything is editable after import: quantities, steps, servings. Change an ingredient and the nutrition and cost recalculate. Recipes that only live in your head can be typed in too; see Write or Edit a Recipe.

Connect the ingredients to your pantry

This is the step that makes the rest work. Every ingredient line links to a real food, and that link powers three things:

• Pantry matching: Tuna knows when you have everything a recipe needs.
• Nutrition: per-serving numbers from the actual ingredients.
• Cost: per-serving price from what you paid.

On import, Tuna links ingredients itself wherever the match is clear. When it isn't sure, it doesn't guess: the line saves as its own food, named as written, so a wrong link never sneaks into your nutrition and cost. Lines that need you wear a small icon telling you what's needed:

• A question mark means the ingredient isn't linked to a food yet. Tap it, search, and pick the right one. If it's something unusual, create it as your own food on the spot.
• A warning triangle means the ingredient is linked but needs a unit hint, usually what a cup of it weighs. Answer once and that food converts from then on.
• Lines like "salt, to taste" show as written. Nothing to fix.

The recipe's original wording is never lost. "Large carrots, peeled and diced" stays on the recipe; the link underneath just tells Tuna it means carrots. Links understand food families too, so a recipe that wants mushrooms matches the cremini in your fridge.

An ingredient can also link to another of your recipes. "1 batch pizza dough" can point at your own dough recipe, and cooking the pizza knows what went into the dough.

Know what to make

Once a few recipes are in, the Recipes tab can answer the question at the fridge:

• Filter to Can make tonight to see recipes where every ingredient is in your pantry.
• Filter to Use up soon to see recipes that use food expiring soon.
• Read the rows: a recipe that uses something expiring says so ("Uses your spinach · exp Thu").

When a specific item needs eating, Plan it from the pantry and choose Cook: Tuna shows the meals you've made with it and the recipes you've saved that use it. See Use Food Before It Goes Bad.

Start small

1. Import the five dinners your household makes most.
2. Fix any ingredient wearing an icon.
3. Tag them where you'd look for them. See Organize Your Recipes.

That's your actual repertoire, connected to your actual pantry, and not a stranger's casserole in sight.