The Suggest Food Feature is an engine that searches a curated list of common meals that will help you to meet your remaining nutrition targets for the day. This is a Cronometer Gold feature.
You will find the Suggest Food feature in the Foods tab or at the top right side of the Nutrient Targets section in your diary.
To get suggestions for specific nutrients, use the Ask the Oracle Feature.
Learn more about:
- Selecting Filters
- Getting Suggestions
- Viewing/Editing Meal Items
- Generating New Results
- Including Custom Foods
Food Suggestions
To use the Suggest Food Feature:
You will find the Suggest Food feature in the Foods tab or at the top right side of the Nutrient Targets section in your diary.
Select Filters
Before getting your suggestions, you will need to select the appropriate filters to get tailored suggestions that suits your diet. If none apply, then leave these sections empty.
- Choose diet options if applicable.
- Choose any meal categories to narrow down the options.
- Choose any exclusions.
- Toggle on Include Custom Foods to include these in your suggestions. Learn more about including your Custom Foods here.
- Select the Reset Filters option in the top right corner to reset your filters.
Get Suggestions
When you have applied your appropriate filters, select Get Suggestions in the top right corner.
A window will appear that suggests meals that help complete your targets while also matching your macronutrient goals.
Click the drop down arrow on each meal suggestion to see the breakdown of the meal:
The solid colours are what you have already consumed today, the striped part of the bar is what this meal will add to your consumption and targets.
Use the tabs above this to navigate to see how this meal will affect your Highlighted Nutrients and Nutrition Scores as well.
Viewing/Editing the Meal Items
You can see what ingredients are used in each meal and you can edit these to more accurately log what you consumed or plan to make yourself.
Within each suggestion, you can click the drop down arrow next to Ingredients to see the list of ingredients:
To edit the amount of an ingredient, click on it to bring up the below window. Here you can edit the amount and serving size.
To completely remove an ingredient, select the X beside the ingredient:
To add a new ingredient, select Add Ingredient at the top:
When you are ready to add this meal to your diary, select Add to Diary below the nutrition information.
Generate New Results
Don't like any of the meal options that have been suggested? You can generate new options until you find the ones you like.
At the bottom of the list of meals, select Generate New Results
A whole new list will appear. You can keep selecting Generate New Results.
Don't like one particular meal? You can remove that individually from your suggestions list:
1. Right Click on the meal > Remove Meal
2. Choose to either Remove Once or Show Less
Including Custom Foods
When you toggle on Include Custom Foods in your filter settings, you will see this message pop up:
This means that your custom foods may not have specific tags applied to it that our Suggest Food feature can use to either include it or exclude it. For example, you may have created a custom food with dairy products, but it does not have the dairy tag applied to it.
However, you can apply these tags from your account and you can learn about adding these tags here!
Learn about using the Suggest Foods feature in the mobile app here