Tracking your meals can be a game-changer in achieving your health and fitness goals. But let’s be realistic. It can be a hassle to write down every single ingredient every time you eat. That’s right there MyFitnessPalYour meals and recipes feature has been added!
This app makes it easy to create and save your favorite recipes. That means you only have a few seconds to log what you eat.
Make meal tracking easy. Our guides walk you through each step, from setting up custom meals to adjusting ingredients, so you can personalize your tracking experience and log your meals quickly.
Why create meals and recipes on MyFitnessPal?
Create custom meals and recipes MyFitnessPal It will save you time and help you record more accurately.
Whether you’re meal prepping or cooking from scratch, creating custom items is a powerful way to make nutrition tracking easy and customized to fit your needs. This may help:
- save time Quickly add preset meals or recipes to your diary.
- Track more accurately Provides nutritional information based on accurate ingredients and serving sizes.
- Create custom recipes Being able to come back again and again.
A step-by-step guide to creating custom meals
The fastest way to create custom meals to MyFitnessPal This allows you to navigate to previously recorded meals and save them as custom meals. You can then go back later and log your entire meal with one tap. Here’s how:
- Open your diary: To create a custom meal, go to: diary This is a tab to record your daily meals. Please see the instructions below for those steps.
- Add ingredients: Enter all the foods you want to include in your meal.add food” in the appropriate meal section (e.g. breakfast, lunch).
- Select and save as a meal: Once all ingredients are recorded”dotSelect ‘ in the bottom right corner of the item, then select ‘.save for meal“.
- Name your meal: Name your meal (e.g. “Breakfast Yogurt Bowl”) and add a photo if you wish.
- get: Faucet “get” to add the meal to your saved meals for easy recording later.
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import or Make your own Add recipes to the app, then easily record which parts of the recipe you eat.
- “Go torecipe” Section: Tab more > my meal, Recipes and Food > Create a recipe.
- Add recipe ingredients from the URL you are using here, or Enter ingredients manually You can create your own recipe.
- choose Enter ingredients manually Then enter recipe name and night soil: Specify the title of the recipe and specify the serving size.
- add ingredient: Search the database and enter each ingredient directly. Select the items, adjust the serving sizes to reflect the total amount in the recipe, then add them to the recipe.
- examine: After adding all ingredients, check the recipe’s nutrition facts table. Edit ingredients or serving sizes as needed.
- get This is a recipe to make accessible for future logging.
- You can also record serving sizes at this stage.
When you log a recipe, it appears as a single entry in your food diary, and the correct calorie and nutritional information is automatically calculated to reflect the serving size.
Record your favorite meals and recipes
After making meals and recipes, writing them down becomes 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 additional hassle.
- Tap the Add (+) button at the bottom of the screen or tap “Add Food” in your diary to go to the search screen as if you wanted to log a food.
- Tap one of the following: my meal or my recipe tag.
- choose meal or recipe: Scroll through saved items, select the ones you want, and record them with a single tap.
Frequently Asked Questions about Creating Meals and Recipes on MyFitnessPal
If you would like to save a meal or recipe, create one below. meal or recipe Enter all ingredients in the app and save. You can then access it from: diary It’s under Saved Items.
yes! Open the recipe below. My Meals, Recipes and Food Edit the ingredient amounts as needed in the More menu and save the updated version.
To add ingredients, open the recipe and editAnd add ingredients from the database before saving.
yes. On iOS, swipe left on a recipe, then tap Delete. To edit, tap the recipe, then tap Edit Recipe. On Android, open a recipe, tap the three-dot menu, and select Edit or Delete Recipe.
When you record a meal or recipe in your diary, MyFitnessPal automatically calculates the nutrients based on the ingredients used.
Yes, you can copy a meal to another date by tapping the three dots and selecting the date you want to record it.
Other Useful Resources
- read: Can I change the name of a meal or add more 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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