Meals vs recipes
A saved meal replays foods exactly as logged. A recipe is a real dish: ingredients combined, cooked, and divided into servings — you log "one serving of lasagna," and the math from ingredients to portion is handled for you.
Building from scratch
Start a new recipe and choose from scratch (the other two doors — a link or AI — have their own article). Then:
- Name it and set how many servings it makes.
- Add ingredients — search the database, scan a barcode, or scan a nutrition label; each ingredient gets the amount the recipe actually uses.
- Save. Per-serving calories, protein, carbs, fat — plus fiber, sugar, and sodium — are computed from the ingredients.
Logging it
Your recipes live in search under My Recipes. Log by servings ("1.5 servings"), and adjust like any food. Meals whose photo analysis detected a composite dish can also be saved as a recipe directly from the review screen — Save as Recipe turns what the camera saw into something reusable.
Editing and variants
Recipes stay editable: change ingredients or servings and future logs use the updated version, while past diary entries keep the values they were logged with. Duplicate a recipe to make a variant without rebuilding it. And if tonight's version diverged from the saved one, explode it into ingredients and adjust just this once.