Occasional Food

Machka9

How do you log food that you only eat occasionally?


For example, I just had my Christmas lunch, and the food served is not something I eat every day. In fact, chances are, I won't eat anything like that again for the next several months, or maybe a year if we go back there again next Christmas, or maybe never. The food was good ... just not something I'd have very often. So I don't really want to have it sitting there in my food diary.

I know eventually it will drift away and will no longer appear, but I don't really need tiny portions of "Smoked chorizitos, roasted tomato, grilled onions & chilli" and "Charred sweet potato, goat's curd, muddled almonds, garlic, coriander" and "Tasmanian salmon, brazil nuts, dill, coriander & mixed herb salsa" (to name a few ... it was kind of a sampler thing) to be sitting there among the lunch choices for the next 6 months.

tomteboda

Honestly I just log the stuff and laugh when I see it show up on my menu choices.

wrenak

I just log it from the database. You could look up each individual thing, add up the calories, and quick-add them as one thing.

Lounmoun

I just log it and am not bothered about it being in my list of food chices for awhile.
If it is something I amikely to have again at a similar holiday or occasion I might save it as a meal so I can log it faster next time.

jemhh

This is something that I've never spent time thinking about. I log it and move on.

oolou

wrenak wrote: »

I just log it from the database. You could look up each individual thing, add up the calories, and quick-add them as one thing.

This seems to be the solution if you don't want it sat in your food list

I_Will_End_You

Make an educated guess and quick add the calories.

malibu927

jemhh wrote: »

This is something that I've never spent time thinking about. I log it and move on.

Same

nordlead2005

I use the phone app, which is significantly better than the website. I just type what I want to log and it quick searches up to the top (what this website desperately needs). So, if I log 50 new items it doesn't hinder my searching for frequently used items.

kshama2001

Previous strategy:

tomteboda wrote: »

Honestly I just log the stuff and laugh when I see it show up on my menu choices.

Will try this moving forward:

wrenak wrote: »

I just log it from the database. You could look up each individual thing, add up the calories, and quick-add them as one thing.

Abby2205

You could change your Add Food Default View to Frequent instead of Recent.

cwolfman13

i don't log anymore, but when i did, there were certain events and occasions that i simply didn't worry about because they were so infrequent as to be largely irrelevant. at most i would make an educated guess and just do a quick add of calories...but most often i just said, "meh" and moved on to bigger and better things.

toe1226

I have always looked at my diary like, a year back, or two years back to think back to those times when I was *supafit!* to get an idea of what I was eating around that time...so for me it is really important to at least log SOMETHING, quick add calories, or random entries, so I have a ballpark idea of my range on that day even if it can't be perfect.

melonaulait

I enjoy looking back at some special dishes I've had in the past while on MFP. You could look at it like that!