Foodie Tuesday: Using the Recipes Section of XWeighted.com

It is thrilling to see that there are now more 400 recipes that have been uploaded by members in the XWeighted.com recipes database.

Sharing your own healthy recipes with other participants is a great way to help them on their journey, and also enables you to earn badges for your My X-Weighted page. When uploading recipes, these should be ones of your own creation or that you have adapted in some way, and not simply copied from cookbooks.

We thought that we'd take today's blog to explain how to use this section of the site in more detail.

To start browsing through the recipes on XWeighted.com, go to the Shared Recipes page, which is located in the Community Section of the site. There you can search recipes by ingredient (type "chicken" in the search box to find recipes containing chicken, for example) or browse by popularity.

You can also browse for recipes that have been given the "Seal of Approval" which is granted by X-Weighted to the healthiest recipes. Every week or so, the X-Weighted team will look through the recipes and select some of those uploaded by participants to recieve the Seal of Approval.

When you find a recipe that you like, you can select it as one of your favourites and it will appear in your My Favourite Recipes page. From this page, you can also share your own recipes, by clicking on the words Create/share a new recipe with the community, which are written in blue at the bottom of that page.

We hope that you are enjoying browsing other participant's recipes. Here are links to a few fabulous recipes that participants have added to the database recently.

Raisin & Walnut Rice Salad, which came from Isabella.

Your Inner Skinny uploaded his Healthy Nachos recipe.

Lydia Peever shared her Barley Tomato Soup recipe.

The Butternut Shepherd's Pie recipe uploaded by Sesuie is sure to be a healthy family favourite.