If you have a menu that you eat on a regular basis, you can go back to a day that has that menu logged and copy it to the current date. My breakfast seldom varies. Oatmeal with cinnamon and cranraisons, 1/4 cup 1% milk, 1 cup orange juice, Coffee with 14 cup milk. I can log all this with one click.
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You can also set up "food groupings" on the add a food tab. These let you set up favorite meals and add the entire meal with the click of a button. For example, my breakfast is about the same every morning. Or, if I go to Subway, I get the same sandwich each time and eat the same amount. Both of these are now set up as food groupings, so it is super easy to add them to the meal planner
LAVENDERLILY4/3/2010 7:45:00 PM
Hi Mellowgirl, On the Nutrition Tracker there is a date line with today's date. There are arrows to the left and right. Click on the arrow to bring up the date you want and that days menus come up. At the top of each meal there is an option to copy . Click on that and you can choose where you want the meal copied.
MELLOWGIRL094/1/2010 11:49:00 PM
how do you do this?
MBTHOMPSON3/27/2010 11:25:00 PM
I do the same thing when I eat oatmeal for breakfast, usually 3 or 4 days a week! Excellent!
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