Tracking 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 difficult. This is the place MyFitnessPalMeal and recipe features are coming!
The app makes it easy to create and save your favorite recipes. This means that when it comes time to record what you've eaten, it only takes a few seconds.
Let's make meal tracking easy. Our guide will walk you through every step, from creating custom meals to adjusting ingredients, so you can quickly customize your tracking and meal logging experience.
Why create meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal?
Create custom meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal It saves you time and helps you log in more accurately.
Whether you're meal prepping or cooking from scratch, creating custom entries is a powerful way to make tracking your nutrition easier and more tailored to your needs. It can help you:
- Save time By quickly adding pre-defined meals or recipes to your diary.
- Track more accurately With nutritional information based on your exact ingredients and portions.
- Create custom recipes That you can come back to again and again.
A step-by-step guide to creating custom meals
The fastest way to create Customized meal in MyFitnessPal It is to go to the meal that you recorded before and save it as a custom meal. Then you can come back and record that entire meal with just one click later. Here's how:
- Open the diaryTo create a custom meal, go to: note tab, where you log your daily meals. See the instructions below for these steps.
- Add ingredients: Enter all the foods you want to include in your meal by clicking on “Add food” for the relevant meal section (such as breakfast and lunch).
- Select and save as a meal: Once all components are registered, press the three “Points“” in the lower right corner of the entry, then choose “”Save as a meal“.
- Name of the meal: Name your meal (for example, “Morning Yogurt Bowl”), and add a photo if you like.
- Save: handle “SaveTo add the meal to your saved meals for easy recording in the future.
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How to add ingredients and portions to recipes
You can also import or Create your own Recipes in the app, then easily record which part of the recipe you are eating.
- Go to “RecipesSection: Click more > for me Meals, Recipes and foods > Create a recipe.
- From here, you can add recipe ingredients from the URL you use or Enter the ingredients manually To create your own recipes.
- He chooses Enter the ingredients manually And then He enters Recipe name and Shares: Name your recipe and indicate how many servings it yields.
- He adds ingredients: Enter each component manually by searching the database. Select the ingredient, adjust the serving size to reflect the total amount in your recipe, and then add it to the recipe.
- review: After adding all the ingredients, review the nutritional details of the recipe. Edit ingredients or serving sizes as needed.
- Save The recipe to make it accessible for future recording.
- You can also register a single share in this step.
Remember, when you log a recipe, it appears in your food diary as a single item – with the correct calorie and nutrient information automatically calculated to reflect your serving size.
Record your favorite meals and recipes
Once you've created your meals and recipes, recording them is a quick process. Here's how to save them and quickly add them to your diary so you can focus on your health goals without any extra hassle.
- Go to the search screen as if you were going to log a food, either by tapping the plus (+) button at the bottom of the screen, or by tapping “Add Food” in the diary.
- Press either My meals or My recipes Unpaid invoice.
- He chooses Your meal or recipe: Scroll through your saved entries, choose the entry you want, and record it with one click.
Frequently asked questions about creating meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal
To save meals or recipes, create them within Meals or Recipes In the application and save it after entering all the components. It will then be accessible on your device note Under Saved Entries.
Yes! Open your recipe below My meals, recipes and foods In the More menu, edit ingredient quantities as needed, and save the updated version.
To add ingredients, open the recipe, then tap EditAnd add components from the database before saving.
Yes. For iOS, swipe left on your recipe and tap Delete. To edit, tap the recipe, then tap Edit Recipe. For Android, open the recipe, tap the three-dot menu, then select Edit or Delete recipe
When you log a meal or recipe in your diary, MyFitnessPal automatically calculates nutrition based on the ingredients you used.
Yes, you can copy meals to another date by clicking on the three dots and choosing the day you want to record them on.
Other useful resources
- It reads: Can I change the names of my meals, or add more meals?
- It reads: How can I change the nutrients I keep in my diary?
- It reads: How can I use the recipe as an ingredient in a new recipe?
- It reads: How can I register a food that is not in the database?
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