Food logging

bonnieluie

Am I able to save a menu for a meal and simply click it onto my daily menu another time?

If not, what's the easiest way to find prior used foods to quickly add it to my menu. I seem to get bogged down searching.

TIA

AnnPT77

Yes, you can save a meal through the "Meal" function.

Right now, the phone/tablet app - putting it generously - is in a transitional state from an old version to a new one, so creating a meal there requires typing in the meal from scratch as far as I know.

In the web browser version of MFP, you can go to a meal you've already logged in your diary, click on "quick tools" underneath the meal, then "remember meal". That will take you to a page where you can name the meal. After you save the meal under that name, you can use the Meals tab in either the phone/tablet app or the web browser version when logging food in your daily diary, and add the whole meal with one click.

With the meals function - unlike recipes - the individual line items of the meal are put into your daily diary, so you can delete individual items or change quantities if needed right in your daily diary.

Reportedly, they will add that feature back into the phone/tablet app . . . eventually.

springlering62

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10951903/food-logging

hi, Bonnie. Welcome to MfP. Great question!

if you happen to be using the iOS app, it is still the same. It’s the poor Android users who got hammered with the “update”. 🙄

if you’re an iOS user, you can do it two ways.

If it’s a meal you’ll make again down the road, go to the three dots, click, and then “add as meal”. This saves it to your meals, so you. A
recall it next week, next month, next year.

I often just eat yesterday’s lunch or dinner the next day. Again, but the three dots and then “copy from”. In my case I’m eating the same lunch as yesterday so I just hit “copy from lunch yesterday”.

I have the same snacks almost every afternoon, and the same evening snacks usually three or four days in a row.

It’s super convenient to just hit “copy from” rather than entering each line item.

Here’s screen shots. Pardon the dark screen. We tried to go on an Aurora borealis hunt last night and I forgot to change it back. There’s a faint arrow pointing to the dots if you look carefully.