What you'll learn
By the end of this course, you'll be able to
- Scan a pack and log the figures from the manufacturer's own label
- Estimate a meal from a photo, and know what a photograph cannot show
- Fix a serving that came back wrong by switching to grams
- Save a meal to your cookbook and add the whole thing again in one tap
- Reuse a food on another day with copy, paste or recent meals
- Choose what to spend a free account's fifteen lookups on
Before you start
- A day or two of logging already behind you
- Camera access allowed, for the two photo lessons
Lessons
Lesson 1: Scanning a product with the camera
Photograph the front of the pack and then the nutrition panel, and both are read. Two steps, a torch for bad light, and the barcode picked up automatically.Guide·2 min readLesson 2: Estimating a meal from a photo
Photograph a whole plate and get an estimate of the calories and macros. Built for home cooking and restaurant food, where there is no label to read. Portion size is the hardest part to judge.Guide·2 min readLesson 3: Setting serving size and units
Change the amount, switch between servings, grams, ounces, millilitres and fluid ounces, and know what to do when the serving is flagged as unclear.Guide·2 min readLesson 4: Saving meals to your cookbook
Save the foods you log together as one reusable meal, then add the whole thing again in a tap. Up to 50 foods, and your history stays as it was.Guide·2 min readLesson 5: Copying a day or a meal to another date
Copy a food straight to another date, or put it on the clipboard and paste it into any meal on any day. The clipboard holds one food for five minutes.Guide·2 min read