Tracking your meals can be a game changer when it comes to achieving your health and fitness goals. But let’s be real—logging every single ingredient every time you eat can be a hassle. which is where MyFitnessPalFood and recipe features are in!
The app makes it easy to create and save your go-to recipes. This means that when it’s time to log what you’ve eaten, it only takes a few seconds.
Let’s make food tracking easy. Our guide takes you through each step, from setting up custom meals to adjusting ingredients, so you can personalize your tracking experience and quickly log meals.
Why Create Foods and Recipes in MyFitnessPal?
Creating custom meals and recipes in MyFitnessPal saves you time and helps you log more accurately.
Whether you’re meal prepping or cooking from scratch, creating custom entries is a great way to make your nutrition tracking effortless and more tailored to your needs. This will help you:
- Save time by quickly adding pre-set meals or recipes to your diary.
- Track more precisely with nutrient information based on your exact ingredients and portions.
- Create custom recipes that you can return to over and over again.
Step-by-Step Guide to Making Custom Meals
The fastest way to create a custom food in MyFitnessPal is to go to a meal you’ve logged before and save it as a custom meal. Then you can go back and log the entire meal with just one tap later. Like this:
- Open the Diary: To create a custom meal, navigate to Diary tab, where you log meals every day. See the instructions below for these steps.
- Add ingredients: Enter all the foods you want to include in your meal by tapping on “Add Food” for the relevant meal section (eg, Breakfast, Lunch).
- Select and Save as Food: Once all the ingredients are logged, tap the three “period” in the lower right corner of the entry, and then select “Save as Food”.
- Name the Food: Give your meal a name (eg, “Morning Yogurt Bowl”), and, if you want, add a photo.
- Save: Tap “Save” to add the meal to your saved meals for easy future logging.
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How to Add Ingredients and Components for Recipes
You can also import or create your own recipe in the app, then easily log the portion of the recipe you eat.
- Go to “Recipes” Section: Tap More > My Foods, Recipes and Food > Create a Recipe.
- From here, you can add the recipe ingredients from the URL you use or Manually put the ingredients to create your own recipes.
- Choose Manually put the ingredients and then come in Recipe Name and Servings: title your recipe and specify the number of servings it will provide.
- Add Ingredients: Manually enter each ingredient by searching the database. Select the item, adjust the serving size to reflect the total amount in your recipe, and add it to the recipe.
- Review: After adding all the ingredients, check the nutritional breakdown of the recipe. Edit the ingredients or serving size as needed.
- Save the Recipe to make it accessible for future logging.
- You can also log a delivery at this step.
Remember, when you log a Recipe, it will appear in your food diary as a line item—with correct calorie and nutrient information automatically calculated to reflect your serving size.
Logging Your Favorite Foods and Recipes
Once you’ve created your meals and recipes, logging them is a quick process. Here’s how to save and quickly add them to your diary so you can focus on your health goals without the extra hassle.
- Navigate to the search screen as if you would log a meal—by tapping the add (+) button at the bottom of your screen, or by tapping “Add Food” in the diary.
- Tap any of the My Foods o My Recipes Tab.
- Choose your food or recipe: Scroll through your saved entries, select the one you want, and log it with one tap.
Frequently Asked Questions About Making Foods and Recipes in MyFitnessPal
To save meals or recipes, make them below Foods o Recipes in the app and save after entering all the ingredients. They will be accessible to your Diary under saved entries.
Yes! Open your recipe below My Foods, Recipes and Food in the More menu, edit the ingredient values as needed, and save the updated version.
To add ingredients, open the recipe, tap Editand add ingredients from the database before saving.
Yes. For iOS, swipe left on your recipe then tap Delete. To edit, tap the recipe, then tap Edit Recipe. For Android, open the recipe, tap the 3 dot menu, select edit or delete recipe
When you log a meal or recipe in your Diary, MyFitnessPal automatically calculates the nutrition based on the ingredients you used.
Yes, you can copy meals to another date by tapping the 3 dots and selecting the day you want to log it.
Other Helpful Resources
- Read: Can I change my food names, or add more foods?
- Read: How can I change the nutrients tracked in my diary?
- Read: How can I use a recipe as an ingredient in a new recipe?
- Read: How do I log a meal that is not in the database?
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