Keeping track of your meals can be a game changer when it comes to achieving your health and fitness goals. But let’s be real: recording every ingredient every time you eat can be a hassle. It’s there MyFitnessPalMeal and recipe features come into play!
The app makes it easy to create and save your favorite recipes. This means that when it’s time to log what you ate, it only takes a few seconds.
Let’s make meal tracking a breeze. Our guide will walk you through every step, from setting up custom meals to adjusting ingredients, so you can personalize your tracking experience and quickly log meals.
Why create meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal?
Creating personalized meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal saves you time and helps you connect more accurately.
Whether you’re meal prepping or cooking from scratch, creating custom entrees is a powerful way to make your nutrition tracking simpler and more tailored to your needs. This may help you:
- Save time by quickly adding predefined meals or recipes to your calendar.
- Follow more precisely with nutritional information based on your exact ingredients and serving sizes.
- Create personalized recipes which you can come back to again and again.
Step-by-step guide to creating personalized meals
The quickest way to create a personalized meal In MyFitnessPal involves accessing a meal you have already saved and saving it as a custom meal. Then you can go back and save that entire meal with just one click later. Here’s how to do it:
- Open the newspaper: To create a personalized meal, access the Diary tab, where you record meals daily. See the instructions below for these steps.
- Add ingredients: Enter all the foods you want to include in your meal by tapping “Add food» for the relevant meal section (e.g. breakfast, lunch).
- Select and save as meal: Once all the ingredients are saved, press the three “points” in the lower right corner of the entry, then choose “Save as meal“.
- Name the meal: Name your meal (for example, “Morning Yogurt Bowl”) and, if you like, add a photo.
- To safeguard: Faucet “To safeguard» to add the meal to your saved meals for easier future logging.
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How to Add Ingredients and Servings to Recipes
You can also import or create your own recipes in the app, then easily record the portion of the recipe you eat.
- Go to the “RecipesSection “: press More > My Meal, Recipes and Foods > Create a recipe.
- From here you can add recipe ingredients from the URL you’re using or Enter ingredients manually to create your own recipes.
- Select Enter ingredients manually and then enter Recipe name And Servings: title your recipe and specify the number of servings it yields.
- Add Ingredients: Manually enter each ingredient by searching the database. Select the item, adjust the serving size to reflect your total recipe amount, and add it to the recipe.
- Goodbye: After adding all the ingredients, look at the nutritional breakdown of the recipe. Change the ingredients or portion sizes as needed.
- To safeguard the recipe for making it accessible for future journaling.
- You can also record a portion at this stage.
Remember, when you save a recipe, it appears in your food diary as a single line, with the correct calorie and nutrient information automatically calculated to reflect your serving size.
Saving your favorite meals and recipes
Once you’ve created your meals and recipes, saving them is a quick process. Here’s how to save them and quickly add them to your calendar so you can focus on your health goals without added hassle.
- Access the search screen as if you were going to log a food, either by tapping the Add (+) button at the bottom of your screen or by tapping “Add Food” in the log.
- Press either the My meals Or My recipes tongue.
- Select your meal or recipe: Scroll through your saved entries, choose the one you want and save it with just one click.
Frequently Asked Questions about creating meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal
How can I save my favorite dishes or recipes for future journaling?
To save meals or recipes, create them under Meals or Recipes in the app and save them after entering all the ingredients. These will then be accessible in your calendar under saved entries.
Can I adjust the ingredient quantities in a recipe after creating it?
Yes! Open your recipe under My Meals, Recipes & Foods in the More menu, change the ingredient quantities as needed and save the updated version.
How do I add new ingredients to my personalized recipes?
To add ingredients, open the recipe, tap Edit and add ingredients from the database before saving.
Can I edit or delete a meal or recipe I’ve already created?
Yes. For iOS, swipe left on your recipe, then tap Delete. To edit, tap the recipe, then tap Edit Recipe. For Android, open the recipe, tap the 3-dot menu, select Edit or delete recipe.
How can I track the nutrition of a meal or recipe I created?
When you record a meal or recipe in your journal, MyFitnessPal automatically calculates the nutrition based on the ingredients you used.
Can I copy a meal from one day to the next in MyFitnessPal?
Yes, you can copy meals to another date by tapping the 3 dots and choosing the day you want to save them.
Other Useful Resources
- Read: Can I change the names of my meals or add other meals?
- Read: How can I change the nutrients recorded in my journal?
- Read: How can I use a recipe as an ingredient in a new recipe?
- Read: How do I register a food that is not in the database?
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