Please help! New and overwhelmed

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  • Ronnie715
    Ronnie715 Posts: 29
    Ok so today I started using MFP and ran into some trouble starting with breakfast LOL. I had:
    -2 egg veggie omelet (peas, green beans, peppers, and onions) NO CHEESE on whole wheat toast fresh from bakery
    -Small oatmeal (rolled oats) with milk and sugar
    -20oz coffee with half and half no sugar

    I had a hard time trying to figure out and find which entries to use because where are so many that come up. Any advise on this?
    Should I be paying attention to the macro's or just focus on the total calories for the day for now?
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Ok so today I started using MFP and ran into some trouble starting with breakfast LOL. I had:
    -2 egg veggie omelet (peas, green beans, peppers, and onions) NO CHEESE on whole wheat toast fresh from bakery
    -Small oatmeal (rolled oats) with milk and sugar
    -20oz coffee with half and half no sugar

    I had a hard time trying to figure out and find which entries to use because where are so many that come up. Any advise on this?
    Should I be paying attention to the macro's or just focus on the total calories for the day for now?

    Use the info on the package. If there is no package, use the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory:

    http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    I had a hard time trying to figure out and find which entries to use because where are so many that come up. Any advise on this?

    It can be time consuming at first, but ideally, for the omelet you'd enter each ingredient separately, preferably with items on the search result that DON'T have an asterix (*) next to them. Then if you make that same omelet again later, you can save it as a meal to reuse, or just copy it to a new date. After a couple weeks, YOUR most commonly used foods are easier to find on your list.
  • Ronnie715
    Ronnie715 Posts: 29
    I had a hard time trying to figure out and find which entries to use because where are so many that come up. Any advise on this?

    It can be time consuming at first, but ideally, for the omelet you'd enter each ingredient separately, preferably with items on the search result that DON'T have an asterix (*) next to them. Then if you make that same omelet again later, you can save it as a meal to reuse, or just copy it to a new date. After a couple weeks, YOUR most commonly used foods are easier to find on your list.
    What does the asterisk next to the foods mean?
  • Ronnie715
    Ronnie715 Posts: 29
    Ok so today I started using MFP and ran into some trouble starting with breakfast LOL. I had:
    -2 egg veggie omelet (peas, green beans, peppers, and onions) NO CHEESE on whole wheat toast fresh from bakery
    -Small oatmeal (rolled oats) with milk and sugar
    -20oz coffee with half and half no sugar

    I had a hard time trying to figure out and find which entries to use because where are so many that come up. Any advise on this?
    Should I be paying attention to the macro's or just focus on the total calories for the day for now?

    Use the info on the package. If there is no package, use the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory:

    http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

    Thank you for this

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