logging in homemade food

c1aireee
c1aireee Posts: 269 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
when i have a sandwich for lunch that I have made at home do I have to log each ingredient eg bread cheese pickle in seperately??? cos when I search for cheese pickle brown bread sandwich it comes up no results! how do u all log in homemade food? I am new to this! thanks

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  • Zichu
    Zichu Posts: 542 Member
    I tend to search each ingredient that is included in my meal. It can be easier to just create the food yourself, but when you decide to change it up, you pretty much have to make the food from scratch which is a pain.

    Once you have used these ingredients often, you won't have to keep searching it because it will in your most frequently used foods or recent foods, depending on how recent you use it.
  • michellelehmann1783
    michellelehmann1783 Posts: 1 Member
    If its something I eat often, but might change 1 or 2 things I enter all the ingredients separate, and then click Quick Tools->remember meal. It will then save each ingredient as part of that meal. I find this easier than creating a recipe for the most part because recipes dont let you alter the ingredients. For example if I save a meal of two slices of bread, with peanut butter, and jam, and go to add that meal later, it will add all those ingredients. Then say for another day I may not have jam on it, I can just delete jam after adding the meal. Sorry, I'm not sure how to make that any clearer.
  • Zichu
    Zichu Posts: 542 Member
    This is exactly what I do michelle. We usually have a roast dinner twice a week. I don't have any roast potatoes or anything like that, just veggies, meats and a bit of potato because I enjoy the taste :D

    So instead of searching each ingredient every time, I will use the Quick Tools from last weeks roast dinner and maybe add a bit more to it or take stuff off without completely changing the meal.
  • c1aireee
    c1aireee Posts: 269 Member
    thanks everyone for your replies!
  • jplucheck
    jplucheck Posts: 275 Member
    usually when I make something homemade its the same ingredients, so I just add it to my recipes then you never have to search again!
  • jplucheck
    jplucheck Posts: 275 Member
    I tend to search each ingredient that is included in my meal. It can be easier to just create the food yourself, but when you decide to change it up, you pretty much have to make the food from scratch which is a pain.

    Once you have used these ingredients often, you won't have to keep searching it because it will in your most frequently used foods or recent foods, depending on how recent you use it.

    u can add it to your recipes and when you change it up you can edit easily! Also I fond it silly but you can alter your recipe on your phone app but not on the website.
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    For a sandwich, I just enter the ingredients separately. For a meal (like chili or egg salad) I enter it as a recipe.
  • MoooveOverFluffy
    MoooveOverFluffy Posts: 398 Member
    it's really important to MEASURE each ingredient and log it separately, otherwise it's not going to be accurate. There are loads of "generic" entries in the database, but i wouldn't recommend using them. And like the gals above said, it's smart to 'save' the meal so you dont have to look up the same foods over and over!

    GOOD LUCK ;0)
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