MyNetDiary and Plaet AI food database has many popular home-made recipes, but it could be difficult to identify them. If you are not looking for the best possible accuracy, it's OK to select from search food that sounds like what you are making, even if it is prepared food. Don't eat much and keep tracking, don't let this stop you!
If you are looking for the most accurate tracking, we recommend entering your own recipes.
The reason is that there is a great variety of cooking instructions and ingredients for every kind of meal, with greatly varying portion sizes, calories, and so on. For example, there are so many "Chicken Stew" recipes! It may be difficult to figure out if the recipe found in our app is the same as you are making.
You can create your own recipe very easily in MyNetDiary and PlateAI, it's a one-time investment that you'll use again and again.
- Enter all ingredients in some meal (e.g. dinner) in full quantities - the amount you use for the entire meal.
- Tap or click "Recipe" button, enter your personal recipe name, e.g. "Susan's Chicken Stew"
- Enter the number of servings that you enter ingredients for, e.g. "4 servings".
- Select Food Group and save the recipe.
- The new recipe will replace the ingredient foods in your meal. You may need to adjust the number of servings you ate (for example, if you entered ingredients for 4, but ate only 1.5 serving).
The next time you cook this recipe, simply search by name and enter the number of servings!
If you need to edit the recipe, simply log this food in your diary as the usual, then on the Food Entry screen (in mobile apps) tap the Edit button.