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Automatically Determine Meal to Log to Based Off Time of Day

brandonmarkb
brandonmarkb Posts: 1 Member
in Feature Suggestions and Ideas
I would love it if the app would automatically determine which meal to use based off the time of day. Maybe you could set the hours that pertain to a specified meal. For example, if I log something at 2pm, often the default meal is breakfast but I’m not logging to breakfast. I usually forget to change the meal (especially if using a widget to open MFP) and 95% of the time all my stuff gets logged to breakfast no matter the time of day. Then eventually I have to go change them one by one.

It would be awesome if I could say that anything logged between—say—6am and 9:30am is breakfast. Then anything between 9:30 and 11:00am is morning snack. And so on. At those times the associated meal would be the default—with the option to change it of course.
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  • zackfanning5101
    zackfanning5101 Posts: 1 Member
    How is this not a thing? Why is it defaulting to breakfast at 10pm? 🤦🏻‍♂️
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,851 Member
    It would need to be optional - people don't necessarily log food at the moment they eat it: sometimes they log beforehand, sometimes afterwards.

    I'm also not sure how you are logging food if it's always set to breakfast? I go to my diary and select 'add food' in the appropriate meal, that way the food is always logged where I want?
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,725 Member
    edited July 2
    Yeah, I don't get it - if I use the UPC code scanner from first page of app, then it asks me to chose a meal. I think it may stay on that same meal if I then scan something else.
    Ditto with recipes.
    But my most common way to log, whether preplanning, day of, or going back to edit something in, is to use diary>meal>add food = no problem.

    I think a lot of people preplan, this suggestion does not work for them.

    ETA: And, I am a night owl - my breakfast is noon or later, lunch 4 or 5, dinner 9pm. Or I switch around lunch & dinner, or I skip lunch...
  • KareninCanada
    KareninCanada Posts: 962 Member
    You can rename your meals if that's helpful. I changed mine to blocks of time. 6-10, 10-12, 12-2, 2-4, 4-6, and evening.

    Automatically choosing what meal based on time of day wouldn't work for anyone who works nights, or anyone who pre-logs their meals as away of planning the day.

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