Who cook their own meals too ??

MAgiK37
MAgiK37 Posts: 11
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Hi,

I'm having trouble with the list of meals to choose from when I submit my intakes, I cook all my meals 100% of them and when I look to put them on the list of meals they seem mostly alrady cook meals from supermarkets popular brands, so I end up putting themunder what's closest

For exemple: I wrap chicken breast ( no skin no oil ) with fresh veggies spices and put it the oven ( it's no bourgignon beef but delicious honnestly ) under which ''categorie'' shall I put it ?

If you too guys like me cook your own meals PLEASE tell me what you do

Looking forward to reading your advices soon

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP

Xx

Replies

  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
    Hi!
    I cook all of my food from scratch. It's a little time consuming, but the best way to do this is go to the "food" tab, then click on "recipes" and then on "create a recipe". This allows you to input all your indredients, gives you the cals, etc and then lets you save it in your recipe box. To add it to a meal hover over the title of the recipe and then click on "add to diary". I love this feature. I have all my go to suppers there.
  • mirandamayhem
    mirandamayhem Posts: 772
    I just put however much of each individual ingredients in to the tracker, so weigh the chicken, say, and add that, weigh the veg and put that in etc. It can be laborious, but once you have ingredients in your tracker they're easier to find
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    I just put however much of each individual ingredients in to the tracker, so weigh the chicken, say, and add that, weigh the veg and put that in etc. It can be laborious, but once you have ingredients in your tracker they're easier to find

    Also, if you eat the same thing often, you can create your own recipe with it on MFP and save it, then just add it whenever you eat it without having to put all those individual ingredients in over and over.
  • ShrinkinBootyB
    ShrinkinBootyB Posts: 7
    Hi!
    I cook all of my food from scratch. It's a little time consuming, but the best way to do this is go to the "food" tab, then click on "recipes" and then on "create a recipe". This allows you to input all your indredients, gives you the cals, etc and then lets you save it in your recipe box. To add it to a meal hover over the title of the recipe and then click on "add to diary". I love this feature. I have all my go to suppers there.

    I also suggest the recipe tab. Begin exact is important and i use it all the time. :) I also plan my day a day in advance so i can take the time to do it before hand so i can focus on making my food instead of inputting it :)
  • MillerCrock
    MillerCrock Posts: 20 Member
    Go to recipes
    Add your ingrediants
    Then let MFP calculate calories. Whenn you eat that meal again click on recipes and on the right hand side is a hidden button that pops up and asks if you want to add your food to your food journal.
    easie peasie
  • apriltrainer
    apriltrainer Posts: 732 Member
    I cook my own meals. But sometimes I will pick a restaurants item Bc I don't want to input every item on my recipe. Too time consuming and I am lazy! I figure my version probably has less calories than restaurant version but I would rather overestimate tm
  • MAgiK37
    MAgiK37 Posts: 11
    I always cook my meals in advance too, it avoids me to ''jump'' on anything else when I'm hungry:explode: ahaha
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    If it's a recipe with several ingredients I enter them into the Recipe section. If it's something like a tuna steak with a side of sateed kale, I enter them separately. I just guesstimate the amount of oil from what was in the pan or on the steak when I began and what portion I ate.
  • MAgiK37
    MAgiK37 Posts: 11
    Thank you guys<3<3<3

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