MyPersonalDiet User’s Guide
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Combining Food Items Into Meals
You can save one or more food items as a meal, and use that meal later on to expedite
data entry. Figure 12 shows the New Meal window with some food items. Choose the
Meal
button
and select
New Meal
; the Meal Name window is shown (see Figure 18)
and allows you to enter its name, serving size and the amount of servings it contains.
To use that meal at some other time, select its name from the meal list, choose the
Meal
button and select
Add Meal
. A single serving of that meal will be added, unless the
option “always use 1 serving when adding this meal” was selected when adding/editing
that meal; in that case, you will be prompted for the exact amount to use.
Figure 18:When you create a meal, you enter its name along the servings it contains. You can later
recall that meal and specify the amount of servings you actually consumed.
To update the content of a meal with the food items currently listed, choose the
Meal
button and select
Update Meal.
To delete the meal, choose
Delete
instead. Deleting a
meal does not remove the food items currently listed. To rename the meal and change the
servings it contains, choose
Edit Name
.
Enter Your Own Food Items
You can add your own food items by tapping on
Item
and choosing
Add
from the
popup menu that shows up. This will show the New Food Item window (Figure 19).
Enter the name, choose the food group and either choose the category and type in your
own. Then enter the default serving (e.g. 100 g, 1 cup, etc.), the calories (or kJ) for that
serving, the nutrients and a note if desired.
Choose the Calculator button to calculate the energy based on the nutrients you’ve
entered. The calculation is based on 4 calories per gram of Total Carbs and Protein, and 9
calories per gram of Total Fat.
