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I just discovered your site today and it's very cool! What a brilliant idea and it seems very well executed. My partner said when I told him about Eat Your Books, "My physical cookbooks might as well be doorstops for lack of that." 

I am wondering if there a way to mark a recipe (within a book, not an online one) that will make it never show up again in my results? My main use for this would be that many of the recipes in my books are not gluten-free, and as I'm scrolling through results I would love to be able to mark off those recipes as I go so they don't appear and clutter up future searches. The "gluten-free" filter on the side definitely does not pull up all the recipes that are gluten-free, so that's not a useful option here. I'm not sure how useful this site will actually be for me if I have to dig through search results where every third recipe is one I can't make. So I am really hoping there's a way to do this! 

We don't currently have an option to exclude Bookmarks though it is on our development to-do list. For now you would need to work the other way round, tagging recipes that are definitely gluten-free with your own gluten-free tag.

Our instructions to indexers re exclusion diets is only to add the tag if the author specifies it as so. This is for a couple of reasons. Firstly to avoid the potential minefield of what is and isn't truly excluded. And secondly to avoid recipes getting multiple tags that really are not relevant e.g. a stew wich is gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, low-carb, low-salt, low-sugar, low-fat, etc. when it could reasonably be expected the recipe would be all those things.

The best way for you is to create your own search parameters that work for you by using Bookmarks. If you go through your indexed cookbooks adding tags such as Gluten-free, Could be GF (where you can sub GF ingredients) or whatever you need, then use the Bookmark filters when searching.

Thanks for such a quick reply!

I completely get and appreciate the reasoning around the Gluten-Free filter. 

Thank you very much for suggesting an alternate method to try, unfortunately the work-around won't work for my purposes. I'm looking for more of a "work as I go" way to get recipes I can't make (gluten recipes as one example) out of future searches. This particular work-around would only do that if I first went through every single recipe on my bookshelf and tagged the ones I can make with "Safe" or something, which sounds like a huge undertaking even with just the five books I have on my shelf! 

I think this is a marvelous concept so I'll continue to play around with it and see if it fits with how my recipe searching and planning tends to work.

Hi Scrumptious, one other options which should at least narrow things down for you a little is to search by the ingredients that you know contain gluten and then change the plus to a minus to exclude them. eg. https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/recipes?f_-ingredient_group=612 

Not perfect, but definitely a smaller group of recipes. 

Bookmarking those you've decided aren't GF could still be helpful, since the bookmark names for each recipe show (at the bottom of the text block) when the recipe list displays.  At least then when you scroll thru the list you can ignore ones you've already researched/discarded.