Recipe Capability in the App

[_A]

I have used LoseIt in the past and one of the greatest things about that app was that I could build recipes (e.g., a crockpot recipe that includes many ingredients), alter serving sizes, and then log that as a food. It would also be saved, so if I made the recipe or ate it again, I wouldn't have to separately log all the ingredients. I know MyFitnessPal has this same capability; however, we all know it's easiest to just do everything in only 1 app.

Is this something we can incorporate into the FitBit app where we log food? That'd be awesome!

[SunsetRunner]

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@_A wrote:

I have used LoseIt in the past and one of the greatest things about that app was that I could build recipes (e.g., a crockpot recipe that includes many ingredients), alter serving sizes, and then log that as a food. It would also be saved, so if I made the recipe or ate it again, I wouldn't have to separately log all the ingredients. I know MyFitnessPal has this same capability; however, we all know it's easiest to just do everything in only 1 app.

Is this something we can incorporate into the FitBit app where we log food? That'd be awesome!

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You can add all the foods (and recipes) you want ...

[SunsetRunner]

Well Fitbit's food base is really small and adding food is not as easy as MFP... so I think his question is perfectly legitimate. 

@_A, there is a way to log your food but I don't find it to be as nice/diverse as MFP's food log. 

[SunsetRunner]

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@Emchuw wrote:

Well Fitbit's food base is really small and adding food is not as easy as MFP... so I think his question is perfectly legitimate. 

@_A, there is a way to log your food but I don't find it to be as nice/diverse as MFP's food log. 

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Well yes, of course.

Not only is the question legitimate, but Fitbit should be doing something about it,

and this has been requested many times, but they seem to ignore the whole thing.

The question, however, was one of adding personal recipes.

[_A]

Thanks for everyone's replies! I know how to add food and create custom foods and that's all good and easy, but if I'm cooking a meal with a lot of ingredients I have to manually calculate the calorie content and the other nutritional data for each food and then add it up--so inefficient!

Vs. LoseIt, which allowed me to scan in or type "onion," "chicken broth," "chicken breast," etc. and logged complete nutritional content for each of them into one recipe. So, the recipe ended up showing total nutritional content for the entire thing, and then I could say that I had 1 serving, and it would adjust the nutritional content to show that selection.

[marekm21]

Yes, I totally agree. I miss this feature the most. I would like to use food plan and log, but without possibility to make recipes using database of foodstuffs is useless. I'm using for this MyFitnessPal as well. I dont think its good to count calorie every day, but is important to gain insight. I like feature to scan barcode and log food, but is not enough. Its really time consuming to use only this way. Would be great to have database of almost all food. Is easy to engage users to fill it by data (photo, composition ... etc.). What I dont like on MyFitnesssPal database is that people are inserting same food more times. Reason is that english speaking guys will insert apple and german speaking der Apfel 😄 Would be great to have only objects with translations. But this is not really important. I hope we will get this feature.

[adjk1229]

You actually can create a recipe in MFP like you normally would and add it to whatever day/time you want. If you link your fitbit with your MFP account, it automatically syncs up with your fitbit app. Not the most efficient way to do it I know, and I would like a recipe builder on fitit as well, but this is slightly quicker than doing it on paper then putting it in!

[Pilson]

I like SparkPeople for all my recipes and food tracking. Plus it transfers to my fitbit automatically.