Tracking your meals can make a huge difference in achieving your health and fitness goals. But let’s be real: Keeping track of all the ingredients for every meal can be a pain. There it is my fitness palIntroducing the meal/recipe feature!
The app allows you to easily create and save your favorite recipes. That means it only takes a few seconds when you record what you eat.
Make tracking your meals easy. Our guide walks you through each step from setting up a custom meal to adjusting ingredients, so you can customize your tracking experience and record your meals quickly.
Why create meals and recipes on MyFitnessPal?
Create custom meals and recipes my fitness pal It helps you save time and log more accurately.
Whether you’re meal prepping or cooking from scratch, creating custom entries is a powerful way to simplify and customize your nutrition tracking to suit your needs. It helps you:
- save time You can instantly add preset meals and recipes to your diary.
- Track more accurately Nutritional information is displayed based on exact ingredients and serving sizes.
- Create a customized recipe You can come back again and again.
A step-by-step guide to creating custom meals
The fastest way to create custom meal in my fitness pal Go to a previously recorded meal and save it as a custom meal. You can then go back and record that entire meal with just one tap. Here’s how:
- open diary: To create a custom meal, diary The tab records your daily meals. See the instructions below for these steps.
- add ingredients: Tap and enter all the foods you want to include in your meal.add foodFor related meal sections (breakfast, lunch, etc.), see .
- Select and save as meal: Once you have recorded all the ingredients, tap the three “”.pointIn the bottom right corner of the entry, selectsave as a meal”.
- name the meal: Name your meal (e.g. “Morning Yogurt Bowl”) and add a photo if you want.
- keep:Tap “”keep” to add the meal to your saved meals for easy future tracking.
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How to add ingredients and quantities to a recipe
You can also import it. create it yourself Check recipes in the app and easily record the parts of the recipe you ate.
- Proceed to “”.recipe” section: tap more > my meal, recipes and food > Create a recipe.
- From here, you can add recipe ingredients from the URL you’re using, or Enter materials manually Create your own recipes.
- choice Enter materials manually after that input recipe name and 1 serving: Give the recipe a title and specify the yield.
- addition material: Search the database and enter each ingredient manually. Select items, adjust quantities to reflect total recipe quantity, and add to recipe.
- review: Once you have added all the ingredients, check the nutritional breakdown of the recipe. Edit ingredients and quantities as necessary.
- keep Create a recipe to access future logging.
- You can also record a single dose at this step.
Please note that when you record a recipe, it will appear as a single line entry in your food diary and will automatically calculate the correct calorie and nutrient information to reflect a single serving.
Record your favorite meals and recipes
Once you create meals and recipes, you can easily record them. Learn how to save and quickly add to your diary so you can focus on your health goals without any extra effort.
- Tap the Add (+) button at the bottom of the screen or add[食べ物を追加]Tap to go to the search screen to record your food.
- Tap one of the following my meal or my recipe tab.
- choice your meals and recipes: Scroll through your saved entries, select the one you want, and record it with one tap.
Frequently asked questions about creating meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal
To save your meals and recipes, create one below. meal or recipe Once you have entered all the ingredients in the app, save it. these are, diary It’s located under Saved Entries.
yes! Open recipe below my meals, recipes, food [その他]In the menu, edit the ingredient quantities as required and save the updated version.
To add ingredients, open the recipe and editadd materials from the database before saving.
yes. On iOS, swipe left on the recipe,[削除]Tap. To edit, tap a recipe, then tap Edit Recipe. On Android, open the recipe, tap the More menu, and choose to edit or delete the recipe.
When you record your meals and recipes in your diary, MyFitnessPal automatically calculates your nutrition based on the ingredients you use.
Yes, you can copy your meals to another date by tapping the three dots and selecting the day you want to record.
Other helpful resources
- read: Can I rename or add meals?
- read: How can I change the nutrients recorded in my diary?
- read: How can I use a recipe as an ingredient in a new recipe?
- read: How do I record foods that are not in the database?
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