How to export your recipes from MyFitnessPal

You want to leave MyFitnessPal. Then you open Recipes: years of soups, casseroles, cakes and family dinners. Perhaps there are 80. Perhaps 400. Rebuilding them looks like the price of leaving.

That is the answer missing from most migration guides. They explain how to move history, paste ingredients or import a recipe from a website. None of those operations transfers the recipes stored inside your MyFitnessPal account.

What the MyFitnessPal export actually contains

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MyFitnessPal describes three CSV files in its official export: meal-level nutrition details, progress history and exercise history.¹ There is no file of recipe definitions, ingredient lists, serving yields, saved Meals or My Foods.

The distinction matters. A row saying that dinner contained 640 kcal cannot reconstruct the recipe that produced it. It does not know whether the casserole used potato or pasta, chicken or beef, tomato sauce or cream, or how many servings came out of the pan.

MyFitnessPal also has a Recipe Importer. It takes a public recipe URL or a pasted ingredient list into MyFitnessPal.² It does not take your saved MyFitnessPal recipes out. Even sharing a recipe with another MyFitnessPal user is not a transfer of the recipe definition; the documented workaround copies food already logged in a shared diary.³

So the direct search answer is short: you cannot export or transfer the MyFitnessPal recipe library through the official export. But do not give up yet—there is a way out. Keep reading.

Do not move the archive

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Four hundred saved recipes are not four hundred meals you need to move into a new app. They are years of kitchen history: old versions, one-off baking, several attempts at the same soup, meals that no longer appear at home.

In Calk, the recipe library fills itself without a setup project, exactly when you need it. Choose a familiar dish, describe its composition in a few taps, and it is ready. You also get more than a static recipe card: the dish remains editable, so you can tune it to your preferences and to the version you actually ate today.

The cloud of every casserole in the world

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A casserole is a useful test because its name says almost nothing about its composition. It can begin with potato, pasta, rice, eggplant or cottage cheese. Protein, vegetables, cheese, cooking fat, sauce, topping and portion can all move independently.

In Calk those are visible choices:

• base
• protein
• vegetables
• cheese or fat
• sauce
• topping
• portion

The chart below shows 40,000 different casseroles Calk can already assemble. Nobody typed them in: every point was produced by choosing buttons. Right means more calories per 100 g; up means more fat.

The three orange points show what the buttons do:

You do not enter those 40,000 recipes. You do not save A, B and C as three versions. You choose the casserole in front of you. The point is the result of those choices, not a record you had to create first.

Next time, change only what changed: cheddar was absent, tomato became cream, the portion was larger. This is where Calk and MyFitnessPal part ways on the second entry.

What about baking, soups and salads?

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The same approach is not limited to casserole. Calk has separate editable models for soups, stews, curries, salads, savory and sweet bakes, homemade bread, cakes, cookies and other familiar food families.

Each model exposes the choices that matter nutritionally: the base, cooking method, protein, oil, sauce, additions and portion appropriate to that kind of food.

A cake still needs a cake model. A soup still needs a soup model. The gain is that you start from the recognizable structure of the dish instead of an empty ingredient form.

You do not need to move hundreds of recipes. Open the first dish you eat after switching, choose its composition in Calk, and let the new library contain only food that is still part of your life. Next time, change one button instead of creating another recipe version.

Calk is available on iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Frequently asked questions

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Sources and review date

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MyFitnessPal’s export and recipe functions, and competitors’ documented import paths, were reviewed on August 18, 2026. Cronometer and MacroFactor, for example, document importing recipes from public web pages—not saved MyFitnessPal recipes.⁴⁵ “No direct import” refers to documented mainstream product functionality, not every private script or manual workaround.