Subject: Ability to Group Foods Together for a Meal
I was thinking it would be nice to have a "create meal" feature,
so to speak, where you browse the individual foods on dailyburn and
group servings of ingredients together to create a meal. A prime
example of this would be a sandwich. Instead of each time I eat a
sandwich and then search out the individual ingredients to log
(like ketchup, meat, cheese, bread), it would be a nice feature to
be able to "build" the sandwich within dailyburn based on those
ingredient.
Say I took my sandwich with two servings of ketchup, one serving of mustard, three servings of meat, two servings of bread, and one serving of cheese. I could group those ingredients together as a meal and call it "My Sandwich" or what have you. Then, next time I eat a sandwich, I go to my custom meals menu and say I had one serving of one My Sandwich meal. Then Dailyburn would automatically list all the ingredients in one serving of My Sandwich. That would save a whole lot of time than hunting down each individual ingredient each time I eat a sandwich, and it would make it easier to tabulate individual ingredients servings if I decided to have two sandwiches instead of one.
At the very least, it seems like a good Pro feature. That may be what the Meal Planner already is, I don't know. I have not had the option to play with that yet.
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2 Posted by kidvid on 20 Nov, 2009 04:52 PM
I agree. I have just started using this site, and it would be awesome to be able to define "dishes."
I.e., if I eat a bean burrito w/o sauce, a banana and an orange juice every day for lunch, I should be able to define all of those components as a dish or a meal. Then, when I eat the same thing the next day, all I have to do is to select it from my "custom meal" dropdown list.
The Weight Watchers site has a feature very similar to what we're asking for.
3 Posted by sbailey08 on 21 Nov, 2009 02:43 PM
I agree as well. Breakfast and the mid morning snack are usually the same.
4 Posted by ericka on 24 Nov, 2009 07:35 AM
You can do this in the Nutrition Log by creating a "recipe".