How to copy foods (Snacks) to multiple days or "all days"?

khartshorn191

There are 3-4 drinks/foods that I consume and log literally every day. How can I copy those to multiple days, a date range or default them to appear every day in My Snacks category?

Alatariel75

There's not an option for logging into multiple days at once unfortunately. Once you've logged it in that meal, though, it will be in your recent entries for easy logging again.

AnnPT77

You can log some things for multiple days - a week at a time anyway. I don't know whether that's a premium-only option, though, because I have premium. It may also be only possible in the phone/tablet app, too, because I haven't noticed how to do it in web browser MFP - not sure, though, because I usually log in the app.

To do it, go to log the food in your diary. Instead of clicking on the plus sign, click on the food. You should get a page like this:



There, click on all the days in the area I've circled, then click the check mark. That should add it to all the days.

I think this only works for individual foods or recipes, though. It doesn't seem to work for meals, oddly, at least in the Android version I'm using.

Another option you could consider would be to put your 3-4 foods in a meal, then log that individually every day. That way, all the items together would be a one-click add. I'm flummoxed that logging meals on multiple days isn't an option, gotta admit. I think I'm gonna put that in as a feature request.

Alatariel75

Ooh, that must be a premium feature, I don't have it. They should promote that more than the photo thing, haha, this one's actually a selling point for me.

AnnPT77

Alatariel75 wrote: »

Ooh, that must be a premium feature, I don't have it. They should promote that more than the photo thing, haha, this one's actually a selling point for me.

@Alatariel75, thanks for clarifying that. Some of the premium features are labeled as such, but there are some things like this that are just there, with no indication I've seen about whether they're in the free version or not.

I like MFP, I like and respect the MFP staff we interact with here in the Community, but I feel like the company isn't very good at keeping existing users happy or encouraging them to hop up to premium, partly because of non-communication about changes in the software in general, and also because they don't do a great job highlighting small features like that one that could be tempting to the existing free-MFP user base - internal marketing, in essence.

I used free MFP for years, and did great with it, so no diss to the free version implied. But IMO those of us who've been here long term tend to be skeptical of the features they add to enhance external marketing, like the meal photo thing. I expected it to be non-useful, so didn't use it. I recently gave it a try just to see, and got about what I expected: Inaccurate, time consuming. It probably sounds gee-whiz and modern and spiffy to the outside world, though.