Tracking your meals can be a game changer when it comes to reaching your health and fitness goals. But let’s be real – writing down every single ingredient every time you eat can be a hassle. That’s where MyFitnessPalMeal and recipe features are coming!
The app makes it easy to create and save your usual recipes. This means that when it’s 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 setting up custom meals to adjusting ingredients, so you can customize your tracking experience and log meals quickly.
Why create meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal?
Creation of customized dishes 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 diet easier and more tailored to your needs. It can help you:
- Save time by quickly adding preset meals or recipes to your diary.
- Follow more precisely with nutritional information based on your exact ingredients and servings.
- Create custom recipes which you can return to again and again.
A step-by-step guide to making custom meals
The fastest way to create a customized meal in MyFitnessPal is to go to a meal that you entered before and save it as a customized meal. Then you can go back later and record your entire meal with just one tap. Here’s how:
- Open the Journal: To create a custom meal, go to Diary card, where you record your daily meals. See instructions below for these steps.
- Add the ingredients: Enter all the foods you want to include in your meal by tapping on “Add food” for the appropriate part of the meal (e.g. breakfast, lunch).
- Choose and save as a meal: After all the ingredients are recorded, tap the three “dots” in the lower right corner of the entry, then select “Save as a meal“.
- Name the meal: Give your meal a name (eg “Morning Bowl of Yogurt”) and, if you like, add a photo.
- Save: Touch “Save” to add a meal to your saved meals for easy future recording.
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How to add ingredients and portions for recipes
You can also import or create your own recipes in the app, then simply record the portion of the recipe you eat.
- Go to “Recipes” Section: Tap More > My Meals, Recipes and food > Make a recipe.
- From here you can add recipe ingredients from the URL you use or Enter the ingredients manually to create your own recipes.
- Choose Enter the ingredients manually and then enter Name of the recipe and Services: title your recipe and specify the number of servings it yields.
- Add Ingredients: Manually enter each ingredient by searching the database. Select an item, adjust the serving size to reflect the total amount in your recipe, and add it to the recipe.
- Review: After adding all the ingredients, review the nutritional analysis of the recipe. If necessary, adjust the ingredients or portion sizes.
- Save Recipe to make it available for future entries.
- You can also register a single serving in this step.
Remember, when you record a recipe, it appears in your food journal as a single item—with accurate calorie and nutrient information automatically calculated to reflect your portion size.
Writing down your favorite dishes 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 journal so you can focus on your health goals without the added hassle.
- Get 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 journal.
- Touch or My meals or My recipes tab.
- Choose your meal or recipe: Scroll through your saved entries, select the one you want and check it in with one tap.
FAQs about creating meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal
To save meals or recipes, create them under Meals or Recipes in the application and save after entering all the ingredients. They will then be available in your Diary below the saved entries.
That! Open your recipe below My dishes, recipes and food in the More menu, edit the amounts of ingredients as needed and save the updated version.
To add ingredients, open a recipe, tap Editand add ingredients from the database before saving.
That. For iOS, swipe left on your recipe, then tap Delete. To edit, tap the recipe, then tap Edit Recipe. For Android, open a recipe, tap the 3-dot menu, select edit or delete recipe
When you write down a meal or recipe in your journal, MyFitnessPal automatically calculates the nutritional value based on the ingredients you’ve used.
Yes, you can copy meals to another date by tapping the 3 dots and selecting the day you want to record.
Other useful resources
- Read: Can I change meal names or add more meals?
- Read: How can I change the nutrients tracked in my diary?
- Read: How can I use a recipe as an ingredient in a new recipe?
- Read: How can I report food that is not in the database?
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