My meals: I'm stumped at the moment (app, ios)

yirara

I baked some brownies that went a bit wrong. Anyway, I have 600gr of brownie crumble at 2818 calories. That's my meal. I tried to add just over 100 calories of that to my diary and completely failed because I got really odd numbers. After experimenting a bit I found that one serving apparently is 1087 calories, and half a serving is half this. That's not even a proper fraction of the original calorie count. what's going on here? That's via the app btw. I had no problem adding about 0.033 of the meal via the website.

MelanieCN77

I had a time like this once with servings and a new recipe and it was just not making any sense at all. I probably gave up and found a database entry instead. Features seem to hiccup every now and then, even without updates the bugs do come and go.

yirara

Yeah, I figure it must be a bug in the app. At least it worked via the website, and I had the most delicious desert ever! Not too sweet vanilla custard with brownie crumble on top. Nom!

MelanieCN77

Yummm.
I remember thinking I was losing my mind because it just was doing nonsense maths and I was convinced I had done something wrong and couldn't see what.

Duck_Puddle

Interesting. Did you enter your recipe as a recipe or a meal? If a recipe-how many servings did you say it had?

yirara

I entered it into my diary as I was baking, and then only had the option to safe it as a meal. I usually go down that route. I have lots of meals, but no recipes saved. Thus I've been doing that for ages.

Duck_Puddle

That’s what it sounded like you were doing which is why I was asking. I’ve always entered my recipes as recipes and not encountered weirdness like you did. Not that it can’t happen of course. Mfp sometimes seems to strive to find new and exciting bugs. The only meals I have saved are my own recipes that I wanted to use as ingredients in other recipes. I do have 77 pages of recipes though.

Thanks for confirming.

yirara

Yeah, this must be a really odd bug. Could be problematic for someone who doesn't pay attention to the numbers: Oh wow, I can has so much food! And then they eat more than twice as many calories as they'd intended.