If you eat the same lunch three days running, you should not have to look it up three times. There are two ways to reuse something you have already logged, and they suit different situations.
Copy straight to a date
Open a logged food and choose Copy. The app asks which date to add it to and confirms before it does anything. This is the quickest route when you know exactly where it is going, typically yesterday, when you forgot to log at the time.
Copy to the clipboard, then paste
Choose Copy to clipboard instead and the food is held ready to paste into any meal on any day. Use this when you want to browse to the right day first, or when you are not sure yet which meal it belongs to.
1. Open the food and tap Copy to clipboard. A confirmation names what you copied.
2. Move to the day and meal you want.
3. Tap Paste food. The panel names what is waiting and how long is left on it.
The clipboard holds one food for five minutes
Two limits, and both surprise people once:
- It holds one food at a time. Copying a second replaces the first.
- It expires after five minutes. A countdown is shown on the paste panel so you are not guessing.
Leave it too long and the app tells you the food is no longer on your clipboard and asks you to copy it again. Nothing is lost, and the original entry is untouched where you copied it from.
Tap Paste with nothing copied and the app says so rather than failing silently.
Recent meals
The quick add panel also offers Recent meals, drawn from what you have logged lately, with a note of which meal you last had each one at. For food you eat often but have not saved to your cookbook, this is usually quicker than copying.
Copying a whole meal
Copy and the clipboard both work one food at a time. To move an entire meal to another day, save it to your cookbook instead and add it from there. That is what the cookbook is for, and it works on any day, any number of times, with no five-minute limit.