How can you add a meal like supper?

garrymerrill
garrymerrill Posts: 4 Member
in Food and Nutrition
i often have a dinner and then later a small supper and prefer to log this as a meal rather than a snack to help group the foods. How can you had a supper meal. So then I can have a breakfast lunch dinner supper and snacks?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Settings-->Diary Settings. You have up to six slots available to name and use.
  • weavingtheweb
    weavingtheweb Posts: 135 Member
    edited April 2015
    There is an option to change and or add meal names here
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
  • garrymerrill
    garrymerrill Posts: 4 Member
    Thanks for replying but for me the link does not show anything. Is there another way to answer this?
  • garrymerrill
    garrymerrill Posts: 4 Member
    In the dairy setting page what is the name of the option to select to get to the six options. From my iPhone I do not The six slots
  • 3laine75
    3laine75 Posts: 3,069 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    Settings-->Diary Settings. You have up to six slots available to name and use.

    Do this.

  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    You have to log in through the web site to change or add meal names.
  • theston412
    theston412 Posts: 47 Member
    garrymerrill wrote: »
    Thanks for replying but for me the link does not show anything. Is there another way to answer this?

    You cannot be using the mobile site. You must log in via computer in order to see certain setting options.

    Off topic, but isn't dinner/supper the same thing? Maybe it's a regional thing, but where I'm from, we have breakfast, lunch, dinner/supper. Anything else is snacks. No judgment - I'm just curious.
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    theston412 wrote: »
    garrymerrill wrote: »
    Thanks for replying but for me the link does not show anything. Is there another way to answer this?

    You cannot be using the mobile site. You must log in via computer in order to see certain setting options.

    Off topic, but isn't dinner/supper the same thing? Maybe it's a regional thing, but where I'm from, we have breakfast, lunch, dinner/supper. Anything else is snacks. No judgment - I'm just curious.

    It's a regional/country thing. In the UK, supper sometimes means a later evening meal (informal meal) when dinner is eaten earlier. In some areas you eat dinner around noontime and supper later. Some places call dinner a formal evening meal (like, tablecloth out, formal dining room), whereas supper is a meal eaten more casually in the kitchenette. In some places, supper is cake and coffee served 7-10 pm.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I find the dinner/supper thing fascinating.

    Obviously it's regional, but as I understand it, "dinner" traditionally refers to the main meal, whenever it is. The middle meal is either "dinner" (if the main meal) or "lunch" (if not). The late meal is "dinner" if the main meal, and "supper" if not.

    My maternal grandparents (who grew up in rural Nebraska and had a farm in central Washington when my mother was growing up) used to always call lunch "dinner" and dinner "supper" (or at least that's how I thought of it as a child), and for them the middle meal was the biggest one until late in life (when they moved into town).

    I thought this was rural American until I ran into it in some English novel as a teenager and investigated.
  • garrymerrill
    garrymerrill Posts: 4 Member
    Yes thank you this worked... I now have supper as a meal. This helps as I have two meals in the evening and supper is a smaller meal and yes less formal than dinner.

    the other interesting note that I was from my English background use to school dinners and as such dinner was at noon not in the evening.

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