What does a Plan to Eat export look like?

Plan to Eat exports a CSV (sometimes wrapped in a .zip) with one row per recipe. Columns include Title, Course, Cuisine, Description, Source, Url, Prep Time, Cook Time, Servings, Ingredients (newline-separated), Directions, Tags, Rating, Photo Url, and a full nutrition block. Both the .zip and the bare .csv work here.

How do I export from Plan to Eat?

Open Plan to Eat in a browser, go to Settings → Account → Export Recipes. Plan to Eat builds a download with every recipe. Save the file and upload it here.

Will my photos and nutrition come through?

Yes. Photo URLs are referenced as remote images, and the nine nutrition columns (Calories, Fat, Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, Sodium, Sugar, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Protein) all map to schema.org NutritionInformation. Ratings, courses, cuisines, prep/cook times, and tags carry through too.

Can I move my Plan to Eat recipes to Paprika or Mealie?

Convert to JSON or .cook here, then import into the destination app. Most modern recipe apps accept schema.org JSON-LD or have a generic JSON import path.

Plan to Eat exports now supported

Convert your Plan to Eat export

Plan to Eat hands you a tidy CSV with every recipe, course, time, and nutrition fact. We turn it into PDF, JSON, Markdown, or .cook so your collection works in whatever app you use next.

100% free. Open-source parsing. No account required.

What we support

Drop in either the .zip Plan to Eat hands you, or the bare .csv inside it.

.zip Recommended

The full export. We unpack the zip, find the CSV inside, and convert every row.

.csv Supported

The bare CSV works too — useful if you've already extracted the zip or want to upload from a different tool that produces a Plan-to-Eat-shaped CSV.

How to export from Plan to Eat

1

Open Plan to Eat in a browser

The mobile apps don't expose the export — use the web app at app.plantoeat.com.

2

Open settings

Click your name in the top-right and choose Settings → Account.

3

Export Recipes

Find the Export Recipes button. Plan to Eat hands you a download with every recipe in your library as a CSV.

4

Upload it here

Drag the .zip (or .csv) into the upload area above and pick the output formats you want — PDF, JSON, CSV, Markdown, or .cook.

Why move recipes out of Plan to Eat?

Plan to Eat is a smart meal-planning tool, but the CSV export isn't something most other recipe apps natively read. If you switch to Paprika, Mela, Mealie, or anything else, your collection lands in spreadsheet form and stays there.

That's the gap this page closes. Plan to Eat does the structured-data work — courses, cuisines, prep/cook times, ratings, full nutrition. We just translate it into the formats every other app understands.

Convert to JSON for re-import into another app, PDF for printing, Markdown for a personal cookbook, or .cook for any CookLang-compatible tool. Your collection, your choice of format.

Export to any format

Get your recipes in formats that work for you

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JSON

Schema.org compliant

PDF

Print-ready cards

CSV

Excel-friendly

MD

Markdown

Plain text

.cook

CookLang

For developers

DB

SQLite

Portable database

ORF

Open Recipe

YAML format

Free your Plan to Eat collection

Drop your Plan to Eat export above and we'll convert every recipe into the format you want.