My Fitness Pal

[NAK2]

I've just installed the MyFitnessPal App which seems a good way to log everything you eat on a daily basis however, I like to cook meals so how will I know how many calories I'm actually having. The idea of being able to scan labels is great but I don't eat many ready meals and don't really want to start.

Help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Hidden]

I don't eat many ready meals either but I use the "quick add" calorie function a lot. So I estimate how much I think is in a meal I've made based on the ingredients I've used and then just add the total into myfitnesspal (usually adding on a few extra calories because I probably will have under estimated). Alternatively you can search for certain homemade meals but there's no knowing how these compare to what you've made.

Hope that helps!

[NAK2 in reply to Hidden]

Thankyou Rachel.

[Aj1997]

I use my fitness pal it's become apart of my life now to log your home cooked meals just scan the bar code with the scanner on the app and measure your food out before cooking because most foods do it by 100g so yeah just measure and weigh out all of your ingredients hope this helps

[NAK2 in reply to Aj1997]

Thankyou.

[Aj1997 in reply to NAK2]

No problem

[OlsBean]

You can create Meals by adding your ingredients and then save them, it's a bit of a pain at first but it's like most things it becomes easier the more you do it. Once your meals have created once, it's then really easy to add them to your food diary each day.

[NAK2 in reply to OlsBean]

Thanks for that, for the last few years I've followed Slimming World & I'm so used to throwing 'free' food together. Yes its going to be a pain but once its done, its done. My challenge for the weekend.

Thankyou

[Salaisa]

I use the recipes function. I look up the ingredients in the database and add them as per the weight I use in the recipe, and scan those ingredients which come with a bar code. You can say how many servings the recipe has, and then just say you had one serving or 1.5 servings. Plus the recipe is there for next time. (The meal is a grouping of foods and will show as such, while a recipe will show under the name of a meal. So a meal would show you had "eggs, flour, sugar, butter", but a recipe will show you had "chocolate cake".)

[DebsWilder]

Cook & Count app cookandcount.com is UK based and designed specifically for calorie (nutritional) counting home cooked food. A lot more flexibility, user friendly and accurate than using MyFitnessPal. Hope the diet is going well!

[Sue2607 in reply to DebsWilder]

Is it a free app thanks 🌞