Thank you Marcie, this is so helpful. You are going to be my "go-to-gal" when I am floundering. I'm getting started on my learning curve now.

Adding foods to your diary.

Do you find you are having problems finding foods you already added to your diary while typing an item to search? Let's say you click the Recent Tab, or the Frequent Tab, etc?

What comes up is in the order of either Default (which is not alphabetized) for the foods you have already added making it time consuming to find what you want to add to your diary.

So, let's fix this problem.

When you add food to your diary you see all of the choices in blue tabs. The last tab to the right you see is Recipes. Look above that tab and you will see a Sort By choice where I discovered mine was on Default, which meant I saw the foods as I had added them and it meant they were not in alphabetical order.

To fix this problem.

I Clicked on the word Default in Blue and the choice came up to choose by Name in blue. Click on that blue word Name and it will alphabetize all of your foods you have added and any new foods you are looking for. This will include the recipes you have added.

Now when I add a food it is alphabetized and much easier to read making it much faster to add the food. I am not searching for the first one I added on the 10th of January after I joined MFP.

The one I am looking for comes up first because I type in what I want and do the search, this brings up what I am looking for in alphabetical order.

I can also add a recent food by clicking on diary and choosing the recent, frequent, my foods(if you add them), meals and recipes tabs. All blue tabs and when you click on either tab your foods will show up without having to type out the food you are looking for.

This is beginning to look a little more like NM making it more understood. Now I'm going to go back and rename all of my recipes and menus with the category it belongs in. Dinner items will have Dinner in front of the name, Lunch in front of the names, Breakfast in front of the name and Snacks in front of the names of the recipe or menu. I did this on NM so it was easy to plan a meal.

Yay! It's getting better here on MFP.

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Update:

The Meals Tab does not come up alphabetically, My Foods won't either. I found a question and answer regarding the non alphabetizing of My Foods and Menus. Below is the answer I copied and pasted.

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Bug: My Foods and My Meals tabs not alphabetizing

Pagination and alphabetization of My Foods and My Meals lists is currently broken. We plan a fix, but must first complete an update of our food search technology.

Unfortunately, this is not a simple update and while it continues we are unable to fix the sorting issues on these lists. Once we are able, we will deploy a fix.

Workaround: While these lists are currently calamitous to browse, users can successfully search for My Meals or My Foods by typing the name in the search bar.

Just figured out the star thing. I'd clicked a couple but finally got on to the bookmarked place. Thanks Marcie for the hints.

Duh, took me forever to find quick tools - guess I kept clicking on other things and it wasn't where the click was at. Finally got my most used breakfast together as a meal.

Welcome Maria.

We all need help during this transition. Marcie is the most experienced on this site and is guiding us through it. We miss NM so much.

I just found out that I was able to pre log a day a head of time. I wonder if you can do more days a head of time. Of course right now I don't need to do that but I will have to check it out.
There is a down fall to food logging that I found so far and that there is no way to do a search through your recent foods, instead you have to scroll through the many pages which really does take up time. I guess maybe I should purpose this and ask if they plan on putting in this feature a search button.

I didn't know you could change it Aero--mine is alphabetical. I sure like the quick tool that lets me copy a whole meal over. I'm pretty boring and eat the same things especially when I'm working! Tammy, good to know you can pre log your food. I'll have to try that

Jeannie Peel showed a nutrition report. She gets it on her phone. Can I get it with my desktop? I'm probably missing something simple but can't find a graph like she has.

I found those things - just not the nice colored circle Jeannie had - maybe it's just available just on the ap. So it goes.

Thank you. Thank you. It worked.

I added it too, Marcie! Thank you for the pictures, they really help. I just checked a couple days and I need to work on my ratios

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Thank you so much. Finding foods previously used was so laborious that I found myself doing a whole new search.

I just "logged" in to the site (usually when I turn on the computer, I'm already logged in and on the Community page) and I received a notice that there's an Upgrade to Premium here. No ads and you can manage more of the macronutrients and food analysis and several other pluses. Anyone else check this out? Is there a charge? I'm a little scared to click further.