Allow clients to create custom recipes and track by serving
Give clients the ability to create recipes, add number of servings per recipe, then track servings as meals for better accuracy.
Personal recipes can be created the same way as a custom meal, but with all the ingredients for the whole recipe. Clients can then save to "favorites" or access in "recent" then have the option of making the meal a "recipe" with the option for adding number of servings. The app will then calculate the calories and nutrition for each serving. When they track as a "meal", they can choose the number of servings they ate just like they would with in-app recipes.
At this time, the custom meal tracking option is inadequate for accurate tracking of clients personal recipes.
They only have the option of tracking recipes from the "discover" section as meals by serving, requesting that I create a custom recipe in the discover section for them to track, or they have to calculate out individual servings for a recipe, then manually track as meal. This leads to inaccurate tracking, a time consuming process on both ends, the need for another app to calculate, and lack of building a meal tracking habit for clients. MFP offers this feature, and it is very effective.
The benefits of adding this feature include:
1. more awareness for client regarding their favorite recipes
2. more agency as clients build meal tracking and planning skills with their own recipes
3. the ability for me as their coach to get more insight into their preferences to help them with healthy swap ideas
4. significantly less complications for meal tracking
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Kat Best commented
This is VERY useful for clients who are doing lots of home cooking. This lacking feature has stopped some of my clients from using the in app tracker.
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Erica Moore commented
Yes please! MFP excluded free barcode scanning, but this serving size is a huge dealbreaker for my clients. It makes meal tracking much harder when you have to divide out all of your ingredients (especially when you are trying to make dinner for your family!)
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Erica Moore commented
I completely agree! Just had a client ask me about this. She wants to put the entire recipe in that she is making for her whole family, but include the servings so that she can log her OWN individual meal!
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Hannah Morahan commented
With the cost of living crisis, more and more people want to batch cook to save money and time.
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Elaine Acheampong commented
Can we get this in the app already Trainerize? This feature should have been one of the firsts rolled out if makes the app not at all user friendly for meal prep
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Juliet Flood commented
Allow clients to create recipes the same as My Fitness Pal where you can enter the number of servings. I teach clients to create recipes where one serving = one gram so that macros are accurate when they weigh out their portion of the final product. Saving a meal in the in app tracker is not the same and this meal tracking feature is virtually useless without it IMO. Everything else about it is great, though.
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Madeline Olfson commented
Be able to build a recipe and input all the ingredients and then say “makes 12 servings” so you don’t have to add in macros for 1 individual serving.
When you go to track it you can just put 1.5 servings and it’ll automate the macros for said servings -
Mean Training commented
Please add this feature. More clients of ours are transitioning from MyFitnessPal and like the in-app tracking overall but find it extremely inconvenient that they cannot add recipes like MFP.
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Rocio Caravantes commented
For example, if I cook spaghetti, I should have the ability to enter and group all the ingredients I used and then save it.
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Christina Robinson commented
so when you search you can enter how many servings you ate. I like to make batches of recipes but then trying to figure out how much of each ingredient in one serving is tedious
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Hussein Moujalled commented
I logged on to request this as well. It's so tedious to do all the math if you meal prep. The easiest way I've found is to use a separate app then just add a custom meal with all the macros then save that as a favorite
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Sam Atwood commented
My clients won’t use the service until this is available. It’s a game changer for tracking and why we’ve stuck with MFP. Would be nice to have before MFP changes their free option to exclude barcode scanning in Oct
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Emma Wilson commented
Would like to be able to create recipes that will allow you to put portion size in that would give you the calories like on MyFitnessPal.
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Christina Carey commented
I logged on to request this!
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Charlotte Nyrose commented
When looking to add a meal that’s not ‘planned’ like a peanut butter banana smoothie I can’t see what is in the smoothie. I put spinach and seeds in mine but I have no idea what’s in the smoothie I added in the app. In general I find the meal tracker not very user friendly if you’re adding a meal recipe from the app.
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Stephanie Dewing commented
Yes!! The ability to make a recipe and set how many “servings” that recipe makes. Then when the client goes to log it they add 1 serving. Example a casserole. The client would enter all the ingredients to find out the cal/macro for the whole dish and then set it to how many squares they cut it into. 1 square would become one serving when they go to enter it into their diary. Very helpful with meal prepping clients too.
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Heather Trevino commented
It would be nice to build and save a recipe in the app, where we add in individual ingredients and set the amount of servings and have the app calculate macros for each serving. Then we can add a serving of that recipe into a meal when needed.
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Fitnut Academy commented
I had exactly the same suggestion made by client today! She had that ability in MFP and now not having this feature makes it very inconvenient for recipe inputs. Please please please include that feature in the tracker 🙏🏼
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The client is building their own recipe. So for example, if you made a soup at home and ate on it all week. You would create a custom recipe and add all the ingredients and the amounts. Then lets say that recipe made 1 gallon of soup, but you only eat 2 cups of it throughout the week. They would be able to log the portion they had and the total calories for the 2 cups. Hopes this makes sense.
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K G commented
Have a calculator to input ingredients for homemade recipes, and then it will have more accurate nutrition stats.