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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Have a calculator to input ingredients for homemade recipes, and then it will have more accurate nutrition stats.
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Danielle Muhr
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It would be nice if clients could input an entire recipe into the app and then break it down into servings.
