How to Login/Register

Welcome to Cariblend! If you are already registered with Cariblend, on any page, click on “My Account” at the top of the main panel, then on “Login” in the drop-down menu which appears (please see red arrow and circled area in the illustration to the right).

You can also login from the Login form in the sidebar of most pages (the Login form is just below “This Month’s Featured Recipe” in the sidebar).

It looks like this:

 

 

 

 

 

If you are not already registered with Cariblend, you need to register in order to view the recipes on this website. On the Home Page (or any other page), click on “My Account” at the top of the main panel, then on “Register” in the drop-down menu which appears (please see illustration on the right, above).

This will take you to the page with the various subscription options, which looks like this:

 

You can choose Bronze membership, which is completely FREE, and gives you ONE recipe per month, plus access to the Bronze Recipe Library. Or you can choose Silver Monthly or Annual (annual offers a 25% discount to the monthly price), which gives you FOUR recipes per month, plus access to the Silver and Bronze Recipe Libraries. Or you can choose Gold Monthly or Annual (annual offers a 25% discount to the monthly price), which gives you EIGHT recipes per month, plus access to the Gold, Silver and Bronze Recipe Libraries. Bargain hunters will note that Gold Membership gives you twice as many recipes as Silver Membership, but costs only 50% more!

You can always upgrade, downgrade or cancel your subscription at any time. Please always do this from the Subscriptions Tab on your Account Page: HERE, using the “Change Plan” or “Cancel” options.

By the way, some reassurance about Cariblend’s payment processes: no financial details of any kind are processed or stored on the Cariblend website – all PayPal transactions are processed on your local PayPal website; all credit card transactions are processed on your local Swipe website (Swipe is one of the world’s largest payment processors, with offices in 14 countries, used by companies such as Amazon, Expedia, Google, Microsoft, Uber, and millions more).

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How to Adjust Quantities in the Recipes

Forget about your calculator or scribbled calculations and recipe adjustments: Cariblend does it all for you! There are a number of cool ways to adjust the number of portions you create, and when you adjust the serving size, Cariblend doesn’t just adjust the quantities in the ingredients list, it adjusts any quantities mentioned in the instructions. Most of my recipes have been created for 4 people, so the first way to adjust the number of servings in the recipe is to hover your mouse pointer over the number “4” which appears underneath “SERVINGS” in the section between the green “Print Recipe” bar and the black-and-white Metric/US Customary selector boxes. A slider will appear (please see red arrow and circled area in the illustration to the right, above), and you can now slide it left or right to adjust the servings for any number of people between “1” and “20”.

If you want to cook for 4, 8, or 12 people, an even easier way to adjust quantities is to to click on the “1x”, or “2x”, or “3x” boxes which can be found to the right of the “Metric/US Customary” selector boxes (which are to the right of the heading “INGREDIENTS” at the top of the Ingredients list) (please see red arrow and circled area in the illustration to the left).

 

If you want to print out the recipe, then you can adjust quantities at the top of the Print Recipe page which appears when you click on the green “Print Recipe” bar. Underneath the “Go Back” and “Print” boxes at the top of the page is a box with the quantity in it (normally, “4”) and “+” and “-” buttons to the right and left. These buttons allow you to adjust the number of servings between “1” and “2000” (please see red arrow and circled area in the illustration to the right).

How to Bookmark Recipes and Create Recipe Libraries

Cariblend allows you to create up to 10 recipe collections, with up to 10 bookmarked recipes in each.

When you bookmark a recipe, you can either save it to the Default Collection or to a collection of your own. You can create a new collection by clicking on the “NEW COLLECTION” button on the left-hand side of the recipe page, entering a name for your new collection in the drop-down box which appears, then clicking on the “ADD NEW COLLECTION” button at the bottom of the drop-down form (please see red circled area in the illustration to the right, above). 

How to Use the Reading Mode, Timer, and Meal Plan Features

At the bottom of each recipe page is a black menu bar with some very useful features. In addition to the “PRINT”, “SHARE”, and “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” rating buttons which you may have seen on some other websites, there are some features which you may not have seen before (the numbered paragraphs below relate to the numbers you can see in the illustration to the right).

1. The red “START READING MODE” button brings up a page with the recipe ingredients and instructions filling the full width of the screen. This is useful if you want to take your phone, tablet, or laptop into your kitchen to look at whilst you are cooking.
2. If there is a section in the instructions which says, for example, “simmer for 30 minutes”, then you can enter “30” into the minute box to the left of the blue “START TIMER” button, click on the button, and go away to do something else. After 30 minutes, your phone, tablet, or laptop will start beeping to remind you that the simmering time is up, and you need to move on to the next step in the instructions.
3. You can add the recipe to a Meal Plan by clicking on the green “ADD TO MEAL PLAN” button. This will bring up a dialogue box which will allow you to add the recipe to a Meal Plan you have already created (select from the list which appears when you click the drop-down arrow in the box to the left of the blue “Add to Meal Plan” button), or to create a new plan (click on the green “Create New Meal Plan” button). Once you have created and/or selected your meal plan, click on the blue “Add to Meal Plan” button, and the Meal Plan will appear.