I am very excited to announce that we are adding a new and very useful feature to the website today – a Recipe Gallery!  What this means is that there will now be one place on the site where we can all compile our favorite kind recipes – if you’re ever wondering what to make for breakfast, an entree, a snack, or dessert, you will now be able to find loads of delicious, healthy, and very kind recipes that other Kind Lifers have created.

I’m really excited about this feature – since we launched the site last October (I can’t believe it’s been a year!!), I’ve really wanted there to be one place on the site where all of our delicious recipes live, so that it's easy for all of you to come to the site when you’re in need of a yummy and nourishing meal and find exactly what you’re looking for. I’m excited to see all of the recipes that you guys submit, and I’ll be posting my own recipes in there too.

Here is how you get your recipes into the gallery:

• Go to your profile page and you’ll see a new section called “Recipes”, right underneath where your friends are listed, and right above your photo albums.
• Click where it says “Add a new recipe”, and it will take you to a new page where you can write your recipe!  
• You can add a photo of the recipe from your flickr account (which is recommended – this way you can show people how yummy your dish looks when it's all done!) or a YouTube video of yourself making the recipe...if you're going to be posting a photo of your dish, you will need to have a flickr account set up and have it connected to your profile on The Kind Life (you can connect to third party services like flickr by going to your profile, clicking "Edit my profile" on the right, and selecting "External Accounts" in the right hand column).
• You can write a little description of your recipe – when and where you learned to make this recipe, what occasion you like to make this dish for, or any other fun facts that you can think of.
• Then you enter in the prep time, cook time, and how many servings you’ll have.
• Add a tag to your recipe - recipes in the gallery will be filtered by breakfast, entree, snack, and finally, dessert. If you want your recipe to come up in searches for one of the above categories, you have to tag it. Just type the category of your dish (breakfast, entree, snack, or dessert), and click "Add." After that, you start entering ingredients.
• After every ingredient that you enter, click the “Add” button to the right, which will add that ingredient to the recipe – and then go ahead and enter the next ingredient.
• Then, do the same for the steps.  

Once you’re all done with your recipe, click ‘Submit’, and your completed recipe will appear on your profile page! Once your recipe is on your profile page, there will be a list of options in pink to the right of the recipe – the first option in the list is ‘Submit this recipe’. If you want your recipe to be featured in the gallery (in addition to your profile), click on ‘Submit this recipe’.

Your recipe will then be sent to me and my website team, and we will add them into the gallery. When you choose to feature your recipe in the gallery, the whole Kind Life community will be able to see it!

If you just want to browse the Recipe Gallery, you can do that too. When you go to The Kind Life homepage, you’ll see a new tab at the top of the website that says “Recipes”. Click on that tab, and you’ll be taken to the gallery. Recipes will be sorted by breakfast, snacks, entrees and dessert. When you’re looking around the Recipe Gallery, you can also let everyone know which recipes you love by "liking" it. If you try out a recipe that’s really great, you can comment on the recipe in addition to "liking" it.

I can’t wait to see all of your recipes and try them out for myself!!

And of course, if you have any technical issues or can’t figure out how to get your recipe into the gallery, please send a private message to Jason, our site administrator, or you can email support@eqal.com. Jason will help you out with any questions you have!