Do I have to type in every entry every day even if it's something I eat often?

godsdreamweaver
godsdreamweaver Posts: 1 Member
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I'm new on the community but thought I'd ask. Is there a way to expedite the logging of foods that I commonly eat? I get very bogged down with the logging all day every day. Thanks.

Answers

  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,839 Member
    You can copy and paste entries to multiple days. After you've put a food in your diary, click on it and click "copy to ____ day".
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,013 Member
    You can save a list of things you often eat together as a meal in MFP, then log the whole list as one item. It puts all all the meal's line items in your diary, so if you need to delete something that time around, or change a quantity of something, you can do it right on the diary page.

    In premium MFP, you can log foods to more than one day of the upcoming week at once, too, if you tend to eat the same breakfast most work days or something.
  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 183 Member
    one you put a food in a meal section, it stays there. So if i want to put my normal salad items in. I just go click the 5 boxes and done. it takes about 5 to 10 seconds.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,030 Member
    If you use the app you can swipe right and you get the same food as the day before.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,013 Member
    yirara wrote: »
    If you use the app you can swipe right and you get the same food as the day before.

    Not in Android, as far as I can tell. If I swipe right on the diary, I get the previous page, the dashboard; or I get the previous day's diary; depending on where I swipe (edge or center).
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,030 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    yirara wrote: »
    If you use the app you can swipe right and you get the same food as the day before.

    Not in Android, as far as I can tell. If I swipe right on the diary, I get the previous page, the dashboard; or I get the previous day's diary; depending on where I swipe (edge or center).

    Hmm.. interesting. This doesn't work if there's already food in that category (breakfast, lunch, etc). In iOS it says something like: same as yesterday? swipe right. Can't post a screencap as I'm about to go to bed and my diary is filled 😅
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,013 Member
    yirara wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    yirara wrote: »
    If you use the app you can swipe right and you get the same food as the day before.

    Not in Android, as far as I can tell. If I swipe right on the diary, I get the previous page, the dashboard; or I get the previous day's diary; depending on where I swipe (edge or center).

    Hmm.. interesting. This doesn't work if there's already food in that category (breakfast, lunch, etc). In iOS it says something like: same as yesterday? swipe right. Can't post a screencap as I'm about to go to bed and my diary is filled 😅

    No worries, I believe you. Apple MFP doesn't consistently work exactly like Android MFP in various ways. Now OP knows that, too. ;)
  • KriseldaGray
    KriseldaGray Posts: 1 Member
    Along these same lines, I can use either the web site or the Android app, but an having trouble saving foods I use often to my "My Foods" list. If I enter a food's name, it'll pull it up in the database check and let me select it, but then it looks like the only thing I can do once it's opened the food in the space next to the database list is select "Create Food" which takes me to a new page with the name of the food included, but no nutrition information is available.

    Is there any way to save a food to my "My Foods" page either from the diary or while I'm entering it to the diary, or otherwise copy it from the database to my "My Foods" list? It seems like such a basic thing it should be able to do!

    Thanks,
    Kriselda
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,936 Member
    edited January 25
    If you report the food for 'wrong/missing nutritional info', you can then 'correct' it (any tiny change will do) and check the box 'save to my foods' before confirming.

    Alternatively, you can save a group of logged foods as a meal, which you can then re-use later on. I presume it would work for a meal that contains a single food too.

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