Pro - Custom Meals

Creating a Custom Meal is a great way to easily log items you frequently eat together.

As a Pro, you also have the option to share meals with your clients. 

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. Once created, you can search and add the meal to your diary via the add food button.

Learn about:

1. Creating a new meal
2. Editing a meal
3. Always explode meal
4. Delete or Retire a meal
5. Sharing a meal with a client

Create a New Meal

1. Click on Foods > Custom Meals

2. Click on + Create Meal 

3. Enter a name for your meal

Use a name that best describes your meal, one that you will easily be able to remember when searching for your meal to add to your diary.

4. Click on + Add Item to add items to your meal 

5. Save Changes 

Your meal will now be in your Custom Meal list in the Foods tab. You can 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.

Edit a meal

We have 3 ways to edit a meal:

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

2. Edit a meal from the Diary > right click on a meal > View / Edit Selected Meal 

3. Edit a meal from the Diary > right click a meal > Explode Meal - this is a great way to make a tweak to your meal within your Diary

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 by going to More > Display > Diary - General > turn Always Explode Meals toggle on/off.

Delete or Retire a Meal

To delete or retire a meal, click on the meal you wish to delete from the Custom Meals page. Next click on the overflow menu in the top right corner of the meal screen. Click on Delete / Retire Meal...

• 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.

Sharing Custom Meals with Clients

1. In your Professional account, go to Foods > Custom Meals

2. Select one of your Custom Meals

3. Click on the three dots in the top right corner > Share with Clients

4. You can decide to share your meal with a single client, multiple clients or client groups, or use the toggle below your client list to share it with all your clients.

You can also toggle on if you'd like to share this meal automatically with all future clients. 

Note: To share multiple Custom Meals with your clients at once, visit the sharing option in the client menu.