Able to create a custom meal and indicate number of servings

[mrshrdng1016]

I would really like to be able to build a recipie and then indicate how many servings it makes and how much I ate and see nutritional break down by servings too.  I think it would way easier than trying to enter all ingredients then when its time to eat the leftovers I can just add the recipie serving.

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject and updated label

[EvieC]

Some meals that I eat will be made and are not from the freezer. So, that means there are lots of individual ingredients that go into it. However, it is hard to find that dinner from the recently eaten with section of something in it is eaten with something else, I can’t find a product in it, etc. So, I think there could be a “My Recipes” section so I could write the name of the food, search the ingredients that go into a serving and then click onto it and have it like any other food. I hope you all like my idea.

[Staish]

I believe there should be an option on the fitbit app food log to create and modify full recipes, and to also choose whatever serving sizes to log.

For example, I could create a new recipe and log 500g spaghetti and 300g tomato puree. Then I can go back into my food log and log 150g of that recipe and also see the macros of what i logged, and also the calories on the fitbit app.

I personally would find this very useful and would be using the feature daily as I commonly cook for others and meal prep. I think it would also be useful for people with families or who cook for others often.

[McIntyre]

My fitnesspal  has this option and it comes in very handy I would love it Fitbit could add this because then I could used Fitbit exclusively.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @UnsatisfiedUser, I will merge your request to: Recipe Converter with Ability to Save Recipes. To keep the Forums organized. Feel free to keep adding your suggestions or comments to the different ideas.

See you around. 

[elGuero]

This is something we have in the Dashboard, but certainly something we're missing in the App!!

[Mrschia]

I would love to see Fitbit have a spot to add all ingredients of a recipe, serving, give total calories count and able to log and save to food log. Currently I to google and find a app to do this.  Rather do it in one spot. 

Thank you

[Mrschia]

I like to see where you can list your recipes ingredients, serving and it will give you the total calories.  At the moment you have to go and find a app that does this.  

[MarcelBK]

Hey @Mrschia! Thank you for sharing your suggestion. I merged your idea into this one because they are very similar. Do not forget to give kudos by clicking on the thumbs up button.

[Mrschia]

Thank you. I believe this would be helpful. I I get something that I make I have to guess on my calories on what comes up. I rather have the correct calories count.


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[Zangelle]

I was using My Fitness Pal app, and they split meals for a recipe. I wish to enter a recipe in my fitbit meal log. What I mean is, lets say the recipe is for 4 portions, well I want it to be divided into four when I enter one meal to my log. I see this was suggested 5 years ago, when will it be adjusted just like My Fitness Pal?

[ashwolve]

i think this is a great idea and would definitely be useful, I have also noticed that something like this has been mentioned in some of the forums I have read so know it would be well received, the issue with these pages are trying to find the correct title to vote and comment to get it implemented you may have 10 requests that are basically the same each with 20 votes , unless this is recognised as the same thing and either merged along with the vote or the total of all titles with a similar reference it will never get done as they run off a voting system instead of a logical system - ie if you can do it for a single ingredient it really makes sense to add the same function to a combination of ingredients together instead of having to go back into each one and change to get the correct results, ie bolognaise if I add 400g tomatoes, 600g mince and 200 grams of mushrooms it is equal to 1200g of bolognaise if I have a portion of 300g the it is logical to automatically adjust the ingredients (in this case by 1/4) so should give the combined totals of all ingredients ie cals in total 700cal @ 300g (serving size) = 175g hope this makes sense.

[pzcarlson]

The idea this is still just an idea is mind-boggling! Every fitness tracking service has a more robust means of tracking food, particularly when you need to enter a recipe (manually or via URL). This is one of those things that should it not be resolved quickly, I will move away from Fitbit over.

[Brittohmy]

I’ve seen posts going back for years of users begging for FitBit to create a recipe builder, where we can input the ingredients of a recipe, the portion and log a meal. Many of us are trying to stay away from prepackaged food items, so just scanning a barcode (while helpful for some items) isn’t cutting it on all meals. You’re assisting us in trying to live healthier and more active lives and yet your food tracker & food log search tools are comprised of mostly prepackaged or fast food items. 

The current recommendation is for people to download a secondary app to do this and then come back to FitBit and log it/sync it. That shouldn’t be necessary. We shouldn’t have to toggle between several apps for what one app should be capable of doing.

Please add a recipe builder to your app in 2019, FitBit! Thank you for your consideration! 

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[AlexandraFitbit]

Hello @Brittohmy ! Thanks for sharing this suggestion, I moved it to this similar post so you can add your vote to it. Please keep sharing your ideas with us!

[Warrendroms]

this subject has been absolutely ignored by fitbit for way, way, way too long.

its absurd that a user making "Keto Bread" for example, cannot add the item with all its ingredients as an item, serving size scaled to food log.

EFFING RIDICULOUS!!!!

How difficult can this be????

there are quite a few calorie tracking apps available that do this, why cant fitbit collaborate with one of them and have it incorporated into the Fitbit app, or web portal, or both??

Seriously, it has to happen

So many users DO NOT eat the garbage that's included in the food database, what a terrrible dissappointment

[Mrschia]

You are so correct.  I have decided not to use the calories part of Fitbit because half of the items don’t work for me.  We don’t eat out much and the places they do have I never heard of.  

I just either put it on my phone under notes and then write it down.  

[McIntyre]

I have been saying this for years. I have to use MyFitnessPal just to track my food when I would prefer to use Fitbit exclusively. I'm an advocate for Fitbit however this is just getting retarded. If my fitness pal can make the changes that we need I don't see why Fitbit can't make those changes how hard could it seriously be. 

[SunsetRunner]

I was really disappointed to find out that if I make a meal on my own, I have to either use a third party app or log ingredients individually.

1) why would I use yet another app, just for something that is not niche at all and the device seems to support?

2) I made something yesterday that had ~15 ingredients, which, fine, I can maybe make a meal for that...but the meal interface in the dashboard doesn't even support a good range of measurements!  If I'm making a small roux I can log that it uses 3 tablespoons of butter, but I can't choose 3 tablespoons of flour to go with it because it's not an option at all.  The interface keeps trying to default to 3 cups because it's the first option.

I've also read some other posts implying that once you make a meal you can't even log a portion of the result as something you ate.  Since the dashboard can't even deal with tablespoons of flour, how would I be able to make a portioned version of the meal divided by 4-8 (or more), depending on the recipe?

Right now I'm just guessing at numbers when I log something that isn't pre-made.  The whole feature around calorie tracking in general feels only partially complete, and does nothing to assist people making anything more complicated than 3-5 ingredients.  I don't really trust the app now to track anything more than calories burned, since I can't get an accurate read in unless I just don't use Fitbit at all.

[lemery66]

I am brand new to Fitbit having just gotten one for Christmas. I have used myfitnesspal in the past and love their recipe import feature. It was disappointing to find that I can't do this in Fitbit as I would like to move to this for all my fitness and health tracking. It seems like there are lots of people out there saying the same thing. Any chance this is in the works?

[uberetalis]

Actually after I started to enter foods on Fitbit it went smoothly. A little startup angst but it really is an effective tool.

[Will4Hike]

uberetalis,  Entering individual food items is not the issue.

The LACKING feature is the ability to create a dish (or a meal) that can be used anytime.

WW has this feature; FitBit doesn't.

That is the issue.  Hope this helps.  

[uberetalis]

go to mealsclick add a mealname the mealadd ingredientssave

[RubyP916]

It would be nice to be able to create a meal using ingredients already contained in the database for easy entry in the future.  For example, if I often make chicken breast with spinach and other vegetables I could create that meal and just select it and have it add all the ingredients rather than me entering each individual ingredient every time.  Could be helpful with restaurants like common orders at Chipotle for example.  Time stamps for meals would also be great as intermittent fasting is very popular right now.  Both these options are available through MFP but I always like staying with one app when possible.

Ruben

[Ctevis37]

I would love this feature.  I currently use MFP for my food logging and the only reason I do so is because I can save my recipes there.  

[Will4Hike]

What is MFP ?
Thanks