Tracking your meals can be a game changer when it comes to achieving your health and fitness goals. But let’s face it: logging every ingredient every time you eat can be a chore. That’s true MyFitnessPal‘s meal and recipe features coming in!
The app makes it easy to create and save your favorite recipes. This means that when it’s time to track what you’ve eaten, it only takes a few seconds.
Let’s make meal tracking a breeze. Our guide will walk you through every step, from building custom meals to adjusting ingredients, so you can personalize your tracking experience and log meals quickly.
Why create meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal?
Create customized meals and recipes MyFitnessPal saves you time and helps you log more accurately.
Whether you prep meals or cook from scratch, creating custom data is a powerful way to make nutritional tracking effortless and more tailored to your needs. It can help you:
- Save time by quickly adding preset meals or recipes to your calendar.
- Follow more closely with nutritional information based on your exact ingredients and portions.
- Create custom recipes that you can return to again and again.
Step-by-step guide to creating custom meals
The fastest way to get one adapted meal in MyFitnessPal is to go to a meal you previously recorded and save it as a custom meal. Then you can go back and log the entire meal with just one tap later. Here’s how:
- Open the diary: To create a custom meal, navigate to the Diary tab, where you record daily meals. See 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 portion (e.g. breakfast, lunch).
- Select and save as a meal: Once all ingredients are registered, tap the three “dots‘ in the bottom right corner of the item, then choose ‘Save as a meal”.
- Give the meal a name: Give your meal a name (for example, ‘Morning Yogurt Bowl’) and add a photo if desired.
- To rescue: Crane “To rescue” to add the meal to your saved meals so you can easily log it later.
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How to add ingredients and portions for recipes
You can also import or create your own recipes in the app and then simply log the part of the recipe you are eating.
- Go to the “RecipesSection: Tap More > Mine Meals, Recipes and foods > Make a recipe.
- From here you can add the recipe ingredients from the URL you use or Enter the ingredients manually to create your own recipes.
- Select Enter the ingredients manually and then come in Recipe name And Portions: Give your recipe a title and specify the number of servings it yields.
- Add Ingredients: Enter each ingredient manually by searching the database. Select the item, adjust the serving size to reflect the total amount in your recipe, and add it to the recipe.
- Judgement: After adding all the ingredients, look at the nutritional content of the recipe. Edit ingredients or portion sizes as necessary.
- To rescue the Recipe to make it accessible for future logging.
- You can also register one portion at this step.
Please note that when you enter a recipe, it will appear as one line in your food diary, with the correct calorie and nutrient information automatically calculated based on your portion size.
Register your favorite meals and recipes
Once you’ve created your meals and recipes, logging 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 any extra hassle.
- Navigate to the search screen as if you were going to log a food item, by tapping the Add (+) button at the bottom of your screen, or by tapping ‘Add Food’ in the diary.
- Tap the My meals or My recipes tab.
- Select your meal or recipe: Browse your saved entries, choose the entry you want and log it with one tap.
Frequently asked questions about creating meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal
To save meals or recipes, create them below Meals or Recipes in the app and save after entering all the ingredients. These are then accessible in your Diary under saved entries.
Yes! Open your recipe below My meals, recipes and foods In the More menu, edit the ingredient quantities if necessary and save the updated version.
To add ingredients, open the recipe and tap Editingand add ingredients from the database before saving.
Yes. For iOS, swipe left on your recipe and then tap Delete. To edit the recipe, tap the recipe and then tap Edit Recipe. For Android: open the recipe, tap the three-dot menu, select edit or delete recipe
When you record a meal or recipe in your diary, MyFitnessPal automatically calculates nutrition based on the ingredients you use.
Yes, you can copy meals to another date by tapping the 3 dots and choosing the day you want to log them.
Other useful resources
- Read: Can I change the names of my meals 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 do I log a food item that is not in the database?
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