My recipes and my food

dgonzalez2319

Hello, quick question what is the difference between my recipes and my food

Corina1143

You decide.
I use my food for things like a Wendy's jr. Bacon cheese with no bun. Not a recipe, just the way I eat it sometimes.

AnnPT77

Recipes are for multi-ingredient foods that may have multiple servings that you may share with other people or spread across days. Examples might be your recipe for lasagna or chicken noodle soup that you make at home. When you log a serving(s) of a recipe, all that comes into your food diary is the one-line item for the recipe (with all it's nutritional attributes), not the individual ingredient lines.

My Food is most useful IMO when I find eat some individual commercial food that isn't already in the MFP food database, so I add it from the product label. Can also be used if one can't find an accurate entry for the food in the food database. Examples might be some new brand of cheese or some unusual vegetable pickles I buy at the store.

There's also My Meals, which are a way of keeping a list of foods one commonly eats together. Meals get copied into one's diary with all the individual ingredient lines included, so one can then change quantities or do other editing on the diary page. (That's in contrast to Recipes, which as I said appear in the diary as a single-line item.) I use the Meals feature for something like my standard breakfast oatmeal (with many add-ins) or a type of sandwich I make often but maybe with slight changes.

mtaratoot

You also end up with a "My Food" if you take something from the database and check the nutritional information, find it's wrong, and enter the corrected data. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a process any longer where the correction is vetted and added to the database, but I could be wrong.