When adding meals, you can add as little or as much information as you would like. You could add a quick picture, a simple description, or the full macronutrient composition of the meal.
🥑 Adding Meal Ingredients
In order to track the macronutrient composition of your meals, you will need to add ingredients to the meals that you track. We have made this as easy as possible by automatically suggesting ingredients based on what is in your meal photos and descriptions. If your meal does not have a photo, or the suggestions are not accurate, you can always add the ingredient manually by searching our food database.
To add ingredients to a new meal:
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Tap the green "+" button at the bottom center of the dashboard.
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Tap "Meal"
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Add new ingredients by scanning the barcode, adding a photo, adding a description, or finding ingredients.
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When adding a new meal, all the fields are optional. You can add a photo, pick a meal category (breakfast, snack, etc), adjust the mealtime, add a description, and/or add ingredients. If you only want to quickly track meals, you could add a description or picture. If you'd like to add nutrition information for your meal, you can click "find ingredients".
- If you added a photo of your meal, the "suggested ingredients" will auto-populate.
- If you add a description of your meal, the "suggested ingredients" will auto-populate.
- If you want nutrition information you can search for ingredients by selecting "Find ingredients" You can add it quickly by hitting the plus sign or clicking into the ingredient to adjust the type and portion size.
- When you have added all your meal information, you can save the meal by clicking the "Add New Meal" button.
🍱 Custom Ingredients
The custom ingredients feature allows you to add a new ingredient or tweak an existing ingredient from our database if the food you are looking for is missing or incorrect.
To add a custom ingredient:
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From the main screen tap the 3 lines in the top left corner.
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Tap the "Ingredients" tab.
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Tap the "Add" button in the top right corner.
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Fill in the name and serving size.
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Fill in the remaining macronutrient data or tap the search icon in the top right corner to find the macro details of an existing item in our database (if you want to make tweaks).
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Scroll down and tap Save.
💪 Macro Summary and Goal Settings
We are also able to provide you with your nutrition goal progress right on the dashboard. Above your meal cards, swipe past the glucose score and glucose summary page to see your macro summary. You will see a nutrition card detailing the macronutrient totals for the currently selected date and how they relate to your daily goals. You can expand this card for more detailed information. Your daily macronutrient goals can be set under User Settings. (You can hide the nutrition card in the dashboard settings).
To set your daily macronutrient goals
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From the main screen tap the 3 lines in the top left corner.
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Tap Settings, then User.
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Tap Daily Macro Goals to open the macro goals settings.
❤️ Meal Favorites
When you favorite a meal, the ingredients for that meal will be saved along with the meal and will be automatically added to any meal that you create using that saved favorite. You can favorite a meal by clicking on the meal card, and hitting "save to favorites" or save it as a favorite as you create the new meal.
