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Auto update Meals when Recipes change

cbmMFP
Posts: 1 Member
I would like to suggest a change/feature that Meals automatically update when a Recipe is changed which is used inside a Meal.
Usecase:
I habe multiple recipes which I use for different meals or make a meal out of different recipes. I can than just log the meal in most cases and if needed individual recipes as extra or when I am not eating everything that day.
I found out that whenever I change a Recipe that the Meal why uses that recipe is not changed and still uses the old recipe. Since I want to log the meal to my diary I will see the incorrect amount of foods logged.
The only way I seem to find is that edit the meal, remove the recipe and readd the same recipe. You can see that if you add the same recipe without removing the same recipe is shown twice but with different calories.
I would like it to be that when the recipe is changed it is also changed in where it is used in the meals (not the dairy log).
Example:
create 2 Recipes: SandwichA & SandwitchB
create 1 Meal: Lunch, consisting out of 1xSandwichA and 2xSandwichB
SandwichA=100 cal
SandwichB=200 cal
Lunch=(100+200+200)=500 cal
Change SandwichA from 100cal to 150cal
Lunch remains on 500cal
Only after readding SandwichA (remove and add again) the meal Lunch is updated to (150+200+200)=550cal.
If I use a recipe in multiple meals I need to update every single meal by removing and adding that specific recipe before it is correct.
Is it possible to make it so that when recipes are used in a meal it is linked to the actual recipe. So when recipes change so does the meal where it is used in?
Usecase:
I habe multiple recipes which I use for different meals or make a meal out of different recipes. I can than just log the meal in most cases and if needed individual recipes as extra or when I am not eating everything that day.
I found out that whenever I change a Recipe that the Meal why uses that recipe is not changed and still uses the old recipe. Since I want to log the meal to my diary I will see the incorrect amount of foods logged.
The only way I seem to find is that edit the meal, remove the recipe and readd the same recipe. You can see that if you add the same recipe without removing the same recipe is shown twice but with different calories.
I would like it to be that when the recipe is changed it is also changed in where it is used in the meals (not the dairy log).
Example:
create 2 Recipes: SandwichA & SandwitchB
create 1 Meal: Lunch, consisting out of 1xSandwichA and 2xSandwichB
SandwichA=100 cal
SandwichB=200 cal
Lunch=(100+200+200)=500 cal
Change SandwichA from 100cal to 150cal
Lunch remains on 500cal
Only after readding SandwichA (remove and add again) the meal Lunch is updated to (150+200+200)=550cal.
If I use a recipe in multiple meals I need to update every single meal by removing and adding that specific recipe before it is correct.
Is it possible to make it so that when recipes are used in a meal it is linked to the actual recipe. So when recipes change so does the meal where it is used in?
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