Logging your meals can be a game-changer when it comes to achieving your health and fitness goals. But let’s be honest, recording every ingredient every time you eat can be a hassle. That’s where MyFitnessPal’s meal and recipe features come in!
The app makes it easy to create and save your go-to recipes. This means that when it comes time to log what you’ve eaten, it only takes a few seconds.
Make meal tracking a breeze. Our guides will walk you through every step from setting up your customized meal to adjusting your ingredients, so you can personalize your tracking experience and quickly log your meals.
Why create meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal?
Creating custom meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal saves you time and helps you keep track of more accurately.
Whether you’re meal prepping or cooking from scratch, creating custom entries is an effective way to easily track nutrition and better suit your needs. It can help you:
- save time Quickly add preset meals or recipes to your diary.
- Track more accurately Nutritional information based on your exact ingredients and serving sizes.
- Create customized recipes You can come back again and again.
Step-by-Step Guide to Making Customized Meals
The fastest way to create a custom meal in MyFitnessPal is to go to a meal you have previously recorded and save it as a custom meal. Then you can go back and log your entire meal with just one tap. Here’s how:
- Open diary: To create a custom meal, navigate to journal tab where you can log your daily meals. See the instructions below for these steps.
- Add ingredients: Click “Enter all the foods you want included in the meal”add food” Relevant meal sections (e.g. breakfast, lunch).
- Select and save as meal: After recording all ingredients, click on the three “point” in the lower right corner of the entry and selectSave as meal”.
- Name the meal: Give your meal a name (e.g. “Morning Yogurt Bowl”) and add a photo if you’d like.
- save: tap”save” Add meals to your saved meals for easy recording in the future.
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How to add ingredients and portion sizes to a recipe
You can also import or create your own recipes in the app and easily record the portions of the recipes you eat.
- Go to “recipe“Part: Click more > mine meals, Recipes and food > Create a recipe.
- From here you can add recipe ingredients from the URL you are using or Enter ingredients manually Create your own recipes.
- choose Enter ingredients manually and then Enter Recipe name and portion size: Name your recipe and specify its number of servings.
- Add to raw material: Manually enter each ingredient by searching the database. Select an item, adjust the serving size to reflect the total amount in the recipe, and add it to the recipe.
- review: After adding all the ingredients, check the recipe’s nutritional facts. Edit ingredients or portion sizes as needed.
- save Recipe so it can be documented in the future.
- You can also make a note of this step.
Remember, when you record a recipe, it appears as a single line item in your food diary – and the correct calorie and nutritional information is automatically calculated to reflect your portion sizes.
Keep track of your favorite meals and recipes
Once you create your meals and recipes, recording them is a quick process. Here’s how to save and quickly add them to your journal so you can focus on your health goals without the extra hassle.
- Navigate to the search screen as if you were journaling about food – by clicking the Add (+) button at the bottom of the screen, or by clicking “Add food” in your journal.
- Click on any my meal or my recipes tab.
- choose your meal or recipe: Scroll through the saved entries, select the one 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 below meals or recipe Save after entering all ingredients in the app. These will then be available in your journal under saved entries.
Yes! Open your recipe below My meals, recipes and food Edit the ingredient amounts as needed in the More menu, then save the updated version.
To add ingredients, open a recipe, click editand add ingredients from the library before saving.
Yes. For iOS, swipe your recipe left and tap Delete. To edit, tap the recipe, then tap Edit Recipe.
When you record a meal or recipe in your journal, MyFitnessPal automatically calculates nutritional facts based on the ingredients you use.
Yes, you can copy meals to another date by clicking on the 3 dots and selecting the date you want to record.
Other useful resources
- Read: Can I change the name of a meal or add more meals?
- Read: How to change the nutrients recorded in your diary?
- Read: How to use a cookbook as an ingredient in a new recipe?
- Read: How to record food that is not in the database?
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