Advice for beginners logging meals

brytanyminder

I’m having a difficult time figuring out the good logging. I’ve tried to add parts of a meal I made and after I scan a barcode and select them, they aren’t saved anywhere. Is there a simpler way to quickly add a meal by pieces?

rbfdac

You can scan barcodes or you can look them up by name and search that way. It'll get easier the more you use it because your most commonly eaten foods will show up at the top and you can quickly select them.

But no, there's no "quick" way to add individual ingredients.

At the very beginning, it can be tedious, but just keep at it.

0ssum_Bl0ss0m

It takes a bit if time and tinkering.

One thing that helped me get started was initially not being super meticulous about food logging and let my natural desire to measure data and see results nudge me into getting a food scale and becoming more and more exact.

brytanyminder

Thank you guys so much! I’ll keep on keeping on!

apullum

There are two options that might help. One is the "meal" feature that allows you to save sets of foods that you frequently eat together. The other feature, which does basically the same thing except better, is the recipe builder. You can save foods that you normally eat together as a recipe. Enter each item in the recipe by weight, and then set the total servings of the recipe to the total weight in grams of the finished dish. That way, you measure out however much you want of the finished dish--say, 100 grams--and then enter it as 100 "servings."

Styggian

brytanyminder wrote: »

I’m having a difficult time figuring out the good logging. I’ve tried to add parts of a meal I made and after I scan a barcode and select them, they aren’t saved anywhere. Is there a simpler way to quickly add a meal by pieces?

It's quite tedious at the start, I confused myself by measuring the cooked and uncooked WT and recoreded the difference, no idea why. Now I just use the uncooked WT.