adding food

It's your food diary - you can do what you want with it, there are no rules. I log things ahead of time all the time. As long as you're accurately and honestly logging your food, you're good.

I may be wrong, but part of the benefit of entering your food daily is to help you get a feel for what you are eating. It also can act as an incentive to eat better as you know you are going to record the second helping of potatoes when its just as easy to go without them. That's just me, though.

@cherrypit333 I think I get what you are really asking. You can enter your food into the database ahead of time so that you can add it to your diary once you plan on eating it. However, you'll be surprised to find that it is very large already and the majority of what you have may already be in there. As far as daily planning, I add my foods in the morning or the night before so I know what I will have on a daily basis and don't have to scramble to meet my goal. There really is no right or wrong. Just what will work for you. Hope that helps! :-)

You can pre-log food. Some people will log what they plan to eat for the next day or even for the week. But if you just want to enter the foods that you have I don't really know if that is possible. You would have to actually log it as a meal. I don't pre-log too often because I change my mind about what I am going to eat. I usually have the same few things for breakfast and lunch but I never know what will be for dinner. It does take a little work at first, but after a while if it is foods you eat frequently they will be saved so logging won't take as long. The barcode feature on the phone app is really helpful, you just have to check it to make sure that when you scan something the correct information comes up. But if you are only using a computer then it will just take a little longer at first.