Delete old food entries

Cowens69

Is there a way to delete items off your food list?

CyberTone

The Recent list is a query (search) of your Food Diary, similar to a Google search (query) of the internet. Just as someone cannot delete things from a Google search, an MFP user cannot delete things from the Recent list query. The Recent list exists as a one-time search result of the items stored in your Food Diary. There would have to be a major recoding of the MFP software to make that change.

You could go back in your Diary and delete all instances of the things you logged so that they will not be found by the Recent list query.

​​​Please see this article, and search for answers to Frequently Asked Questions and other helpful articles, on the MFP Help/FAQ pages...

https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/374439-how-do-i-delete-an-entry-from-my-food-diary-

Cowens69

Thank you for your response. Can you also tell me how to make a food a "favorite?"

CyberTone

Cowens69 wrote: »

Thank you for your response. Can you also tell me how to make a food a "favorite?"

MFP uses "favorite" as a category. There are five: Recent, Frequent, My Meals, My Foods, Recipes.

Users can create My Meals, My Foods, and Recipes.

Users do not have control to add items to their Frequent list, only "hide" items they do not want to see displayed - they can "unhide" them if desired. MFP uses an algorithm (unknown by users) on what it pulls from a user's Diary and displays on the Frequent list.

If MFP would allow users to have some control over adding items to their Frequent list, I believe many users would not complain so much about the Recent list query.

patsyacs

the Frequent list has an option at the bottom of the page to delete "checked" items.
The recent list shows the most recent items used for each meal

Gail2468

How to select ALL foods in diary to delete? I want to start new with adding foods.

heybales

Through the web account, when I go to add foods to diary, I can look at Recent and Frequent - and both have option to check foods in the list and Delete from list.

As you do on either list, it allows less recent or frequent items to now fill the available slots.

RetiredAndLovingIt

I don’t understand why some things don’t show up in recent. Like the coffee & creamer that I have every day. I can copy meal from the day before tho.

AmunahSki

RetiredAndLovingIt wrote: »

I don’t understand why some things don’t show up in recent. Like the coffee & creamer that I have every day. I can copy meal from the day before tho.

I made my coffee into a ‘meal’, as the ingredients don’t change - coffee granules, and 15ml of semi skimmed milk - adding it now takes seconds.

Theo166

Cowens69 wrote: »

Thank you for your response. Can you also tell me how to make a food a "favorite?"

Ditto, use the 'meal' feature to identify the things you regularly eat. That way you can always jump to your short list of common foods without wading through all the stuff you entered in the past year.