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Creating a Custom meal is a great way to easily log items you frequently eat together!

If your breakfast often consists of a custom granola recipe, a cup of coffee with cream, and a navel orange, you can group these items together into a custom meal to easily add them to your diary.

You can create meals in two ways: via the Foods tab and by selecting items in your Diary.

Learn about:

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  1. Create a Custom Meal via the Foods tab
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  2. Create a Custom Meal via Multi-Select in Diary
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  3. Delete/Retire a Custom Meal
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Create a Custom Meal via the Foods tab

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  1. Go to the Foods tab > Create Meal


     
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  2. Name your meal
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  3. + Add Meal Item
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  4. Choose a serving size for each item
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  5. Tap Next in bottom right when done adding items 
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  6. Check your work
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  7. Tap Back if you'd like to make edits. Or else tap Save Meal or Save & Add to Diary to add the meal to your diary right away
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You will now be able to find this meal under Foods > Custom Meals. 

You can now search for your meal by name and add it to your diary just like any other food.

To search for a custom food, recipe or meal more easily, search using the Custom tab in the Search dialogue.

After adding a meal to your diary, you can explode it to view your meal's components separately.

 

Create a Custom Meal via Multi-Select in your Diary

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  1. From your Diary, select the overflow menu in the top right corner of the screen
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  2. Tap on Multi-Select


     
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  3. Tap on all of the items you want to be included in your meal
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  4. From the overflow menu, select Create Meal From Selection\n
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  5. \nYou can choose to +Add Meal Items or edit any items
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  6. Name and review your meal following the steps from above
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Edit a meal

We have 3 ways to edit a meal:

1. Edit a meal from Foods tab > select a meal > update information

2. Edit a meal from Diary > swipe right on the meal > tap the 3 dot menu > Adjust Meal

3. Edit a meal from Diary > swipe right on the meal > tap the 3 dot menu > Explode Meal

 

Always Explode Meal

If you would like to have your meals display as individual foods/recipe items in your diary every time, you can choose to always explode your meals. 

The first time you choose to explode your meal, you will see this pop up. 

Here you can choose Only This Time or Always. You can change this setting at any time.

To quickly change this, swipe right on the meal logged in your diary > tap the 3 dot menu > Custom Meal Settings. 

Or go to More > Display > Diary Settings > turn Always Explode Meals toggle on/off.

Delete/Retire a Custom Meal

You can delete your custom food by:

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  1. Going to the Foods tab
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  2. Tap the menu in the top right corner
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  3. Tap Delete\n
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  4. You will be asked if you want to Delete or Retire the meal
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Retiring a meal will remove the meal from your foods list but retain any diary entries you have already made.

Deleting a meal deletes the food and all diary history.

 

Learn how to create a Custom Meal on the website

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