What is the "add quick calories"?

katmustbeskinny

I've seen it on other people's food diaries, and I was just wondering what it is, and what is the purpose of it.

alifer

If you cant find a food, but you know how many calories. It wont provide a breakdown of nutrients.

ElizaRoche

I use it when I eat something that has nutritional facts info..
For example, a package of cookies, and the facts say you eat 50 calories for a cookie, and I ate just one.. Instead of looking for that specific kind of cookie in the food data base, I just pick ´add quick calories´ instead, and put 50 cals. there.

phyllio77

Sometimes when I cant find what I am eating on the site I do a quick guess. Especially if I do not have time to search for a meal item.

I personally go back after I log for the night and fill these in.

TheCaren

I only use it if I know I have no way of legitimately figuring out what I've eaten (nutrition info-wise) and locating it on MFP is futile. I make a high estimate and just plug it in as "quick add calories". I try to use it sparingly because it's easy to plug a number in and kid ourselves about what we're actually taking in. Same reason I weigh food a lot still.

taunto

When you are adding food to your diary, you can click on "quick tools" on a particular meal time (like breakfast for example) and click on add quick calories.

its basically just that, quick calories. You can use it for foods who's calories are not in the MFP database or if you think the calories in the database are wrong. Or in my case, to add a guesstimated number for a meal (2000 calories for indian buffet!)