One meal (all ingredients added), spread over multiple meals

BluePete64

If I make a huge salad (942 g) to eat over the course of a few meals, I don't want to have to add the ingredients each time. Furthermore, maybe I'd like to add a little more of one or two of the ingredients to the overall meal.

For example: today I made a 942 g "salad" that has 12 line items in it for a total of about 1500 calories. I ate 230 g of the salad for lunch. Based on the overall "salad" meal, I ate 230/942 g (or 24.4% of the total salad). For dinner, I intend to eat 500 g of salad, but I might want to add more tomato to the salad mix. It would be nice if I could add the "salad" from the meal as a single line item (doesn't work that way currently - if I click add food to dinner, and then select my meals, I can only view or delete it. I can't add it to my diary or edit the line item quantities), then I could add another line item for the tomato. Simple, easy.

Then next week, I would make another salad with mostly the same ingredients. I would like to be able to select "salad" from a list of my meals, then adjust the amount of ingredients in the new salad mix and save it again.

If this feature is already available, it's not easily understood nor intuitive.

durden

I think this would best be expressed as a Recipe since you're making it in large batches. The recipes features allows you to combine multiple ingredients, so that MyFitnessPal can automatically calculate the correct number of calories and nutrients when you log a serving of that recipe to your diary.