Am I the only person who didn't know..

You can scan barcodes with your iPad in my fitness pal and it's give you the calories?

[Lizzibeth]

Yes I found that, only problem I found was you can't change the weight to what you need it only gives you a couple of options.

[Dave1961 25kg in reply to Lizzibeth]

All you need to do is change the number of servings e.g. if a serving of trail mix is 30 grams but you simply had maybe half that you over write the "1" in number of servings with "0.5" and you're sorted

[Gonti 10 kg]

Took me weeks to "discover" that.

[Dave1961 25kg]

Its awesome right?

If you find a recipe on the internet you like you can point MFP to it and it will work out the ingredient list, calculates the calories and work out what a per serve is for you

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I used to use MFP for ages and never knew this until someone mentioned it on this forum a couple of weeks ago !

[Fatnomore]

I have only just found that function too

[Lizzibeth]

Thanks Dave this will save me time

[mandy_ydnam]

I love this feature on MFP, I go round the supermarket scanning any new foods I see and if the calories are right it goes in my basket. Easier than getting home then doing it and realizing half the food I bought is too high in calories for me x

[Portlandprincess]

Just getting to grips with it...so will give bar codes a try! Sounds like fun.

[Pallyali]

How?

[Hidden in reply to Pallyali]

In the my fitness pal app, instead of manually searching for food you hit the barcode icon at the side of the search bar. It takes you to your camera, can the barcode and it find the product.

[Pallyali]

Thanks will have a look