No Favorite Foods on App

[mdphd2b]

My mobile app only shows "Frequent, recent, and custom foods" when I try to log food, but I have saved "Favorite" foods on the website. How do I get the "favorite" food list to show up on the mobile app?

[MarcoGFitbit]

Hello @mdphd2b, thanks for joining us, it's great to have you on board! 

Currently, in the Fitbit app, the "Custom" option that appears is where you'll be able to find your Favorite Foods, as the website requires you to create a new food when adding it to the Favorites, the app will recognize it as a Custom one. Please go to your online Dashboard and under Food > Favorites, click on Edit my foods to check if they're still on the list. 

I hope this can be helpful, in case you need anything else, please feel free to reply! 

[wayne.helpard]

I use the food tracking extensively but I find the use case you described as not an ideal solution to the problem.

My issue is I eat a lot of the same foods, but there is enough of a variety that they do not show in the Frequent list on my app. Therefore I have to go searching for them all the time. I don't want to create custom foods for foods that you already have in your database, that takes too much time and effort for a feature I consider somewhat trivial, and seems illogical to create data you already have. If in the food list, or even the food "Add" screen, a simple "Star" icon to add it as a favorite would be ideal. If you still want to show favorites in the "Custom" list that's ok, but it makes more sense to have a 4th list you can pick from.

To improve the stickiness of your app to ensure people keep using it, I would suggest adding in this small feature would address a primary use case flaw.

I thought about attaching wire frames to illustrate my suggestion, but hopefully I explained it well enough. I responded to this in iOS as I found it in a search, but the same issue exists in Android (that's my platform of choice).

[Durable360]

When I mark a food with a star on the web-based dashboard (because it's not even available on the iOS app) it doesn't show up under the "Custom," "Frequent" or "Recent" tabs. Why not add "Favorite" in the "Log Food" section next to Frequent Recent and Custom?

[mdphd2b]

I agree - that was my original question. My "Custom foods" show up on the mobile app - those are usually meals that I frequently make from scratch, but the list of "starred" Favorite foods only shows up on the website, not on the App. Since my Favorite list has single food items already in the database, there is no reason to re-create them as "Custom Foods". Between this issue along with not being able to get net carbs, it means logging everything on the Web app is more helpful for me, but still very inconvenient because I can't use the iPhone app for this.

I feel many practical suggestions are offered by users on these forums, but Fitbit is not really listening to consumers about implementing them. The technology cannot be so difficult, if other free fitness trackers can do it. I used MyNetDiary exclusively in the past, and as of now still feel it has superior features for food and nutrient tracking compared to Fitbit. Only reason I need Fitbit app is for my activity connecting to my FB Blaze - wish I could use one app for all 😞

[Lacrocious]

Hi Marco G.  

Please put in a word to get this added to the IOS App.  I see it is available in the Android App, but not in IOS.    In Android, you have 4 tabs, not 3 (Frequent, Recent, Custom, and My Foods (Favorites/Starred Foods - on the web portal).

Thanks

 - Ron

[MarcoGFitbit]

Hi there @Lacrocious, thanks for joining the conversation, it's nice to have you on board the Community! 

I really appreciate our members's input and feedback and I would like to thank you for yours. I understand how important it is for you to have a Custom Food tap on the Fitbit app. Our team is always looking to improve the Fitbit experience and and I would like to encourage you to submit your insight as a suggested idea, where our members can comment and vote for it so it can be implemented in the future. This is the best way to make your voice heard.

I hope this can be helpful, give it a try and keep me posted in case you need anything else! 

[Ken2647]

Using iOS...are you saying I can create a recipe this way?  I want to be able to group several ingredients into a custom recipe.  Is this not possible??

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[Lacrocious]

Ken2647,

FitBit doesn't let you create a recipe from ingredients, but does allow you to group multiple items together.  I created a "Meal" of cheerios, milk, honey, blueberries that I eat quite a bit.  I created another "Meal" of just Cheerios, milk and honey for when we don't have blueberries.  I use the standard amounts of each that I eat every day.

Also, I have gone to one of a number of nutrition analyzers and added a recipe to give allow me to create a "Food".  I did this for our Beef Stew or some other recipe's that we have.  The MyFitnessPal one works well http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/calculator.  The Spark People one works, but seems cumbersome to me https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp.  There are more - Google for your favorite.

 - L

[Ken2647]

Thanks for your reply.  I sort of figured it out and managed to enter in my egg & cheese Omlet recipe using web tool.  It seem a bit cumbersome, wasn't intuitive, and ends up listing each ingredient in the food log. I'll get used to it, but they could do much better.  My old Tap & Track app did a much better job of this, but is no longer supported.

 The issue I have with My Fitness Pal and other apps that can interact with Fitbit is that they require you to subscribe to the app.  Expensive and I'm not going to do that just for the ability to enter in a recipe.

Thanks again,

Ken2647

[Lacrocious]

Ken2647,
I don’t use the Myfitnesspal app for this, nor any synchronization. How I
have done it is to go to the links I posted and enter the recipe. I don’t
think you need to register for that, although I am registered. I enter the
ingredients to let it determine the nutrition. I take that info and make a
single fitbit food entry (like: my beef stew) that incorporates all the
ingretients. That is much easier than trying to figure out portion sizes
of a recipe into a fitbit meal. It also lets fitbit figure out how much is
250 grams or 8 oz.
- L

[Ken2647]

OH...okay...gotcha.   I'll give that a try.

thanks!

[Coolahrens68]

Thank you for all the help on ideas for tracking meals that you create. I have been trying to estimate how much I end up with on my stew.

[LizzyFitbit · Accepted solution]

Hi everyone.

I wanted to let you know that I'm going to close this thread to prevent any confusion. For more details about food, I'd recommend checking this help article.

If you have any other questions, I'd encourage you to start a new thread in the Help Forums to receive help from other community members.

Your feedback is always appreciated and we'll keep working to improve the Fitbit experience.