Logging Food

The fastest path on the website, and the keyboard shortcuts that help

Let the app suggest today's entries from what you usually eat

Pick several foods in one pass instead of logging them one at a time

View a food’s nutrition information without adding it to your diary.

Which entry to pick for raw ingredients, fresh produce and cooking

Send what you logged to someone from the Messages app

Mark the foods you log often so they are one tap away

Copy one entry, a meal, or a whole day forward or back

When to save a recipe and when to save a meal, and how they differ

Enter ingredients once and log a serving thereafter

Paste a URL and MyNetDiary reads the ingredient list

Which recipe sites can be read automatically, and what to do when one cannot

Rename, group and tidy the foods, recipes and meals you have saved

Look up how often a food has appeared in your diary

Change the ingredients or servings of something you already saved

Plan your meals, organize your shopping and check food nutrition before buying.

Why restaurant items crowd out home cooking, and how to find the plain version

Which foods come from staff and which come from other members

Why a food you used before is marked retired, and what to log instead

Adjust a system food you cannot edit, using a negative entry

Enter label values for something only you eat

Why a scanned code returns a different name, and when that is correct

How the grade is calculated, using eggs as the worked example

Why the grade rewards nutrient density rather than calories alone

What one serving means, and where the number comes from

Add a portion size the food does not offer

Which cup the app means, and how it converts to grams

Judge a portion by sight when you cannot weigh it

Grams, ounces, cups and package servings, and how to set a default

Weigh a food and enter the exact grams

Set how many servings a recipe makes, and what one serving weighs

Why a recipe shows no gram weights, and how to add them

Change or remove a food or recipe, and clear what you have searched for

Remove one entry from a meal without clearing the whole meal

Set the time an entry was eaten, not the time you logged it

Why a past day's totals or colours can change after you log

Plan meals ahead and log the plan as you eat it

Build a shopping list from your plan, your recipes or by hand

Compare nutrient amounts in two foods side by side on iPhone and Android without logging them.

What changes between UK, AU, EU, US and CA labels, and why totals differ

What the WHO free sugars figure counts, and where to see it

Switch a nutrient between a percentage of target and a weight

Choose which nutrient totals appear on the Android dashboard

Where to mark a day complete, on the phone and on the web

Export your diary as a file you can keep or send

Rename your meals, add one, or remove one you never use

What the short name is for, and where it appears

Track what you take alongside what you eat

Log the same supplements every day without searching for them

Add chloride to the nutrients you follow

Work through the usual causes in order, on iPhone and Android

What each button on the scanner screen does

Fix the Google Play services error that stops scanning on Android

Fix a black camera view when the scanner opens