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I'm Riley and I'm Roni. And this is the plan to eat podcast, where we have conversations about meal planning, food, and wellness. To help you answer the question what's for dinner.

Riley: Hello and welcome to the Plan to Eat Podcast in another episode of Feature Friday. Today we're talking about the feature tags. Uh, you can use tags in your recipe book to create subcategories and further organize your recipes in a way that meets your family's needs.

Roni: So in Plan to Eat we have our three main categories of coarse main ingredient and cuisine. But there might be times when you're looking for additional categorization for your sps, and that's when you're. Use tags. Tags are completely customizable to you. Just like the other categories. You can add as many tags Do you want to your account to be able to label your recipes with whatever you want?

Riley and I like to use tags for things like family favorites or we like to put our family members' names in so that we [00:01:00] can tag their favorite recipes with their name. You can literally make anything up for a tag if you want. You know, gluten free, keto, vegetarian, all of the different. And the best thing about tags is that once you've added these tags to your account, it makes it really easy to search and filter for your recipes based off of those tags.

We have another feature Friday, all about search and filtering options, so go check that out if you're not exactly sure how the search and filtering options work.

Riley: Let's talk about, uh, examples of this. So I am someone who. , uh, used to not be gluten free. And now I'm gluten free. I talk about this on the podcast quite a bit. Um, I was not gluten free when I started my plan to eat account. And so I have a lot of recipes that are, that are gluten full . Um, but I really enjoy them still and have modified them to be gluten free, even if their recipe doesn't necessarily say it's gluten free anywhere.

Um, so maybe I've got a recipe that, uh, let's. A really great gluten-free biscuit that I had, just like that wasn't gluten-free. And I've [00:02:00] modified to be gluten-free. Maybe that lives in my breakfast category, uh, or breakfast course. But if I tag it with gluten-free and then I tag another dessert recipe also with gluten free, when I use the search options and search by tag for gluten-free, it compiles all of my.

gluten-free recipes, regardless of what other categories they live in. So I'm looking at them all at one time. I really find that to be a incre, incredibly helpful feature. You know, even if I'm looking for a dinner recipe and I stumble across a dessert recipe, I like having them all in one and searching by gluten-free.

This is something your friends can also search in your account, I find that to be super helpful when I go look at Roni's recipe book and I need a gluten-free recipe. Maybe she's tagged some things gluten-free, um, maybe she's tagged things, family favorites, and I go to her account and I know I can grab all those family favorite recipes that she's tagged and then add them to my account.

I, I just, I really like this feature and I, I like having things like live in their correct course or You know, [00:03:00] connected their main ingredient or cuisine type, but then that tag adds this like further level of customization to the recipe so you can search them so easily.

Roni: right. One of the things that I started doing last year when we started talking more about seasonal eating was I started tagging my recipes with different seasons. So based off of the ingredients in that recipe, um, to. Depending on when the items are more seasonally available. I have recipes tags as winter recipes fall, recipes summer and spring.

So now as the seasons, you know, change, I can go through and search those tags and find recipes that have in-season items in them to be able to create my meal plans that, you know, maybe I haven't. Planned those meals in a whole year because, spring came around and I used those recipes and then it went away and I didn't use those recipes again.

So it's a also, I think, a cool way if you, if you like to have these deeper levels of organization and we know you do, then [00:04:00] it's really cool to be able to kind of, to go through and, maybe look back at some older tags that you haven't used in a while and Discover some recipes that, um, you used to maybe really love and you haven't planned in a while.

So I wanted to mention one other thing is that we also have tags as an option within menus. So in the menus feature you can go in and add tags to your menus to also give your menus that that extra level of organization so that you can quickly find your menus, but also so that you.

Categorize your menus based off of, you know, if it's a holiday menu or a seasonal menu, or a budget menu, whatever the things are. If that name isn't in the title of the menu, you can use tags to also categorize them.

Riley: Roni already mentioned this, but I just wanna reiterate that tags are fully customizable, just like every other filtering option inside of Plan to Eat. We do have a list that auto is automatically there when you start your account, but you can add to this list and delete what we've put in there.

Um, we get a lot of questions about people wanting to add their [00:05:00] own tags, so I just wanna make sure, you know, you can add whatever you would like, and make it personal to you and your account

Roni: thanks for listening today. If you have any questions, please email us at help@plantoeat.com and we'll see you guys soon.