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
Arrabella Schippers MMT, CPT, CHC
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Megan Ratto commented
Absolutely necessary for meal prepping. Having the ability to add the mass of all the ingredients in a recipe and save it so when I log what I’m eating, I can just put the total mass and it automatically calculates the mass of each ingredient. It’s way more precise than “one serving” and it’s just simple math (just tedious to do).
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Kierstin Cifelli commented
Ability for clients to add their own recipes, not just saving a meal to their favorites
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Syd commented
This is a feature I miss the most from WW. We make our own meals sometimes. Please let us create recipes!
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Kara Jordan
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I created an account to vote on this. The only part left of MFP that is surpassing Trainerize is the recipe maker. You can bulk add ingredients and you can do a link and it'll find the ingredients on the webpage. Having the ability for clients to register their family recipes (breaking down whats in recipe to the trainer) is helpful with adjusting plans to better fit macros/nutritional goals.
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Steph B commented
The ability for clients to add a recipe with multiple servings seems really critical (like you can do in My Fitness Pal, Lose it, most other meal tracking apps).
I see they can save meals that they track to easily add them later, but it would be great if they could add a full recipe and set the number of servings it makes. That way they can just track "one serving" in the meal tracker and let the app do the math, instead of calculating how much each individual ingredient is per serving.
I.e., trying to figure out how many tbsp/cups of beans, pepper, onion, etc. in a batch of chili or other recipes with multiple mixed ingredients.
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Chelsey Suddarth commented
This is a critical development especially for meal prepping and adding meals to the tracker with correct servings when you’re cooking in bulk!
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Mimi Millward commented
Needed ASAP!
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Agreed! I want this feature very badly, It makes it very difficult for my clients to meal prep. Needed ASAP.
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Clients ability to create a WHOLE / BULK recipe, ie 4 Servings, then being able to select 1 serving and enter into their food diary.
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Sarah Rubino commented
For example, you enter all the ingredients and then it asks how many people it’s for
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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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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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Client Success Team 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