MEALS:

For foods that you regularly eat together, saving them as a Meal lets you easily add them to your diary as a group. For example, you can create a Meal called “Two eggs & toast ” consisting of two eggs, sourdough toast with ghee and OJ. You can then add this as a group, instantly, instead of adding each item separately. You can also save a single item as a meal, if finding that item in your Meals list adds convenience.

To create a Meal, just log the items you’d like to combine to one section of your diary, then:

On the Web

• Click “Quick Tools” then “Remember Meal”
• Give the meal a name.
• Click either the green “Save Meal” button to save as a new meal, or click the green “Or, Replace An Existing Meal” button to do as the name suggests. 

In our iOS apps and our Android app

For items already logged in your diary…

• Tap the “Edit” or Pencil button
• Tap the selection box next to each item you’d like to include in the remembered meal. You can select items from the same diary meal, or include items from multiple meals.
• Tap the “Save Meal” button (fork and knife around a plus symbol). In Android app, you need to tap the three dots on the top right to select “Save Meal”.
• Give the meal a name and tap “Save New” or tap “Save as..” to replace an existing meal (iOS apps, tap the check mark)
• To quickly create a meal from all of the items logged in one diary category, tap the “More” button under that meal. 

Creating meal from scratch…

• Go to the drop down menu or more page
• Tap My Meals, Recipes & Foods
• Select Meals tab
• Tap “Create a Meal”
• Then add Meal name, photo (optional) and food items
• When finished, make sure to hit the Save button on the top right.

When you are logging food in the future, you’ll find your remembered meals in the “Meals” tab of the food search screen.

RECIPES:

Learning this MFP feature allows you to quickly import recipes from popular recipe websites, or to easily match lists of manually entered ingredients, to help make tracking your meals/snacks quicker and easier!

There are two ways to add recipes in our Mobile apps:

From the Diary:

1. Go into your diary and Add Food
2. Select the Recipes tab then click on the + (top right)
3. Select Create a Recipe then Enter Ingredients Manually or Add From Web
   • If you choose to use Add From the Web you’ll need the URL for the recipe (ex. https://www.myfitnesspal.com/)
4. Enter the recipe Name and number of servings**
   • If you choose Bulk Import, put in the list of ingredients and the system will choose the best match. You will be able to check update these later
5. Select Add Ingredients (you can either scan the barcode or type in the search field)
   • You will not be able to use items from your recent/frequent/my foods list
6. Select Next then review your recipe and Save

From Recipes, Meals & Foods

1. Open the Menu or More…
2. Select Recipes, Meals & Foods or My Meals, Recipes & Foods
3. Make sure you are on the Recipe tab then select Create a Recipe
4. Then Enter Ingredients Manually or Add from Web
   • If you choose to use Add From the Web you’ll need the URL for the recipe (ex. https://www.myfitnesspal.com/)
5. Enter the recipe Name and number of servings**
   • If you choose Bulk Import, put in the list of ingredients and the system will choose the best match. You will be able to check update these later
6. Select Add Ingredients (you can either scan the barcode or type in the search field)
   • You will not be able to use items from your recent/frequent/my foods list
     Select Next then review your recipe and Save

** If you’re not sure how many servings a recipe will produce, enter a best-guess number when you first create the recipe.

After the recipe is cooked, you can evaluate the number of servings that have been produced. Then, the recipe can be edited, and the correct number of servings can be entered. This article contains additional information on editing recipes.

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