How to create meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal
Keeping track of your meals can be crucial when it comes to achieving your health and fitness goals. But let’s be honest: It can be tedious to keep track of every single ingredient for every meal. That’s where MyFitnessPalThe food and recipe features are here!
The app allows you to easily create and save your favorite recipes. This means it only takes a few seconds to log what you’ve eaten.
Let’s make meal tracking a breeze. Our guide walks you through every step, from setting up customized meals to adjusting ingredients, so you can personalize your tracking experience and quickly log meals.
Why create meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal?
Create custom meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal saves you time and helps you record more accurately.
Whether you meal prep or cook from scratch, creating custom entries is a powerful way to make your food tracking more effortless and tailored to your needs. It can help you:
- Save time by quickly adding preset meals or recipes to your schedule.
- Track more closely with nutritional information based on your exact ingredients and servings.
- Create custom recipes to which you can always return.
Step-by-step instructions for creating custom meals
The fastest way to create one individual meal In MyFitnessPal is to go to a meal that you have previously logged and save it as a custom meal. Then you can go back later and log the entire meal with just one tap. Here’s how:
- Open the diary: To create a custom meal, navigate to diary Tab where you log daily meals. See the instructions below for these steps.
- Add ingredients: Enter all the foods you want to include in your meal by clicking “Add food” for the corresponding meal portion (e.g. breakfast, lunch).
- Select and save as a meal: Once all ingredients are logged, tap the three “Points” in the bottom right corner of the entry and then select “Save as a meal“.
- Name the meal: Give your meal a name (e.g. “Morning Yogurt Bowl”) and add a photo if you want.
- Save: knock “Save” to add the meal to your saved meals for easier logging 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 easily log the part of the recipe you eat.
- Go to “Recipes” Section: Tap More > My Meals, Recipes and foods > Create a recipe.
- From here you can add the recipe ingredients from the URL you used or Enter the ingredients manually to create your own recipes.
- Choose Enter the ingredients manually and then input Recipe name And portions: Give your recipe a title and indicate the number of servings.
- Add Ingredients: Enter each ingredient manually by searching the database. Select the item, adjust the serving size to reflect the total quantity in your recipe, and add it to the recipe.
- review: After adding all the ingredients, check the recipe’s nutritional breakdown. Adjust ingredients or portion sizes as needed.
- Save the recipe to make it accessible for future logging.
- You can also log a serving in this step.
Remember: When you log a recipe, it will appear in your food diary as a single line – with the correct calorie and nutrient information automatically calculated according to your serving size.
Log your favorite dishes and recipes
Once you’ve created your meals and recipes, logging is a quick process. Here’s how to save them and quickly add them to your calendar so you can focus on your health goals without extra effort.
- Navigate to the search screen as if you were entering a food – either by tapping the Add (+) button at the bottom of the screen or by tapping Add Food in the Diary.
- Tap either My meals or My recipes Tab.
- Choose Your meal or recipe: Scroll through your saved entries, select the one 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 under Meals or Recipes Enter it in the app and save after entering all the ingredients. These will then be available in your diary under saved entries.
Yes! Open your recipe below My meals, recipes and groceries In the More menu, edit the ingredient amounts as needed and save the updated version.
To add ingredients, open the recipe and tap Editand add ingredients from database before saving.
Yes. On iOS, swipe left on your recipe, then tap Delete. To edit, tap the recipe and then tap Edit Recipe. On Android, open the recipe, tap the three-dot menu and choose Edit Recipe or Delete Recipe.
When you enter a meal or recipe in your diary, MyFitnessPal automatically calculates the nutritional value based on the ingredients you use.
Yes, you can copy meals to a different date by tapping the three dots and selecting the day you want to log them.
Other helpful resources
- Read: Can I change the names of my meals 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 log a food that is not in the database?
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