Log what you eat

The diary lists what you ate on each day, split into breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, with calories and macros added up for you. It works on every plan.

Open the diary#

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   Open Nutrition from the menu

   On a computer, click Tools in the top bar, then Nutrition. On a phone, tap More in the bottom bar, then Nutrition.

   

   You'll see: The Nutrition page opens on today, with a week strip across the top and a Log button.

Go to another day#

The strip at the top shows one week, Monday to Sunday. Each day shows its calories once you have logged something.

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   Tap a day in the strip

   Tap or click a day. On a computer, the arrows at the left of the strip, Previous week and Next week, move a week at a time. On a phone, swipe left or right to change days.

   

   You'll see: The summary and the meal list switch to that day.

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   Jump to any date

   Press the month button at the right end of the strip, for example Oct. In the calendar, Today brings you back to today.

   

   You'll see: A small calendar opens over the page. Pick a date and the diary goes there.

Log a meal#

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   Press Log

   It is at the top right of the page. To log straight into a meal, use that meal’s own button in the list instead: Log breakfast, Log lunch, Log dinner or Log a snack.

   

   You'll see: A sheet titled Log to Today opens. When you are on another day, it names that day.

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   Choose the meal

   Tap Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner or Snacks at the top of the sheet.

   

   You'll see: The foods below change to the ones you usually have at that meal.

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   Set the servings, if you need to

   Foods come in three groups: Usually at lunch (things you have logged at that meal before), Also in your foods and From your recipes. Type in Filter your lunch foods to narrow the list. On the food’s row, use the + and − buttons, or type a number such as 0.5 or 1.5. You can go from 0.05 up to 20.

   

   You'll see: The number beside the food changes. Nothing is logged yet.

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   Tap the food to log it

   One tap logs it, with the servings you set. The big button at the bottom, such as Log Best Lentil Soup, logs the highlighted food the same way.

   You'll see: The food is added to the diary and the row shows Logged. The sheet stays open, so you can log more.

A line above the food list, such as Logged 1 entry, keeps count and has an Undo button for each entry.

A recipe that says No calories saved for this one has no numbers to copy. Tap it and the form below opens with its name filled in, so you can type the numbers.

Log a meal by hand#

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   Press By hand at the bottom of the sheet

   You can also type a name into the filter box and press Enter when nothing matches.

   You'll see: A form opens with What was it?, Calories, Servings and a row for protein, carbs, fat and fiber.

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   Fill in the name and the calories

   Only the name and the calories are required. The calories are for one serving, and Servings says how many you ate. Prot, Carb, Fat and Fiber are optional, and so is Portion, where you can write something like 1 bowl. Press the button to log it.

   

   You'll see: The button at the bottom lights up, for example Log lunch.

Log a meal from a photo of your plate#

Take a picture of your plate and RecipeClip estimates what is on it. It is an estimate, not a measurement, and nothing reaches your diary until you have checked it. It costs one AI import and works on every plan.

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   Press Use a photo

   Open the Log sheet, tap Lunch at the top (or the meal you ate), then press Use a photo at the bottom. The photo goes into the meal you picked.

   

   You'll see: The sheet changes to What’s on the plate? with Take a photo and Choose one buttons.

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   Choose a picture of your plate

   On a phoneOn a computer

   Tap Take a photo to use the camera, or Choose one to pick a picture you already took.

   Click Choose one, drop a picture onto the box, or paste one with Ctrl + V.

   

   You'll see: The picture appears.

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   Add a note if the camera can't see everything

   The box Anything the camera can’t see? is optional. Things like cooked in butter or oat milk make the estimate better.

   

   You'll see: The note goes with the picture.

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   Press Read the plate

   Keep the sheet open until it finishes. Cancel stops waiting, but the AI import is usually spent already. The sheet calls it a credit.

   

   You'll see: Grey placeholders and a timer show while it reads. That usually takes ten to thirty seconds.

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   Check the estimate

   Edit the name if you like. Under it are the calories, the protein, carb, fat and fiber tiles, and a label such as Clear plate or Portions are a guess.

   

   You'll see: The sheet shows the meal name, the estimated calories, and how sure the reading is.

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   Fix the foods and portions

   Under On the plate is one line for each food it found. Untick a food that is not on your plate. Tap a portion such as 1/4 cup to open the choices ½×, ¾×, 1×, 1½× and 2×, and pick the one that matches what you ate.

   

   You'll see: The total follows what you leave ticked.

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   Press Log to lunch

   The button names the meal you picked at the start, so it says Log to dinner if you chose Dinner.

   

   You'll see: The meal is added to the diary with a ≈ in front of its calories. All the foods become one entry.

RecipeClip saves the photo with the entry. Free accounts get 20 AI imports every 30 days, shared across all AI features. Pro and Family get 100 a day for each feature, so photo logging has its own allowance. The sheet shows how many you have left. If a photo cannot be read, the sheet says why and offers Read it again, Use a different photo or typing the meal by hand.

Fix, repeat or remove an entry#

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   Tap the entry

   Tap or click the row in the meal list.

   

   You'll see: A sheet opens with the entry's name and its numbers.

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   Change what is wrong, then press Save

   You can change Servings, Portion, the Name, the meal, and every number. Numbers are per serving, in grams, except Sodium, which is in milligrams. Once you change a number, it stops being an estimate and becomes yours.

   You'll see: The day's totals update.

Entries made from a photo or a recipe’s saved numbers are marked as estimates, with a ≈ before the calories. If a photo estimate came with a note about its portions, you see it above the numbers as What the estimate assumed.

Log the same thing again#

Open the entry and press Log again. It adds the same food to the same meal, now. For a recipe, Open recipe sits beside it.

Remove an entry#

Open the entry and press the bin icon, Remove this entry. There is no question to answer. The row turns into Removed Best Lentil Soup — undo for 7 seconds. Press undo in that time to keep it.

Read the day’s calories and totals#

• The big number in the card at the top is today’s calories.
• On the plate shows how much of your energy came from protein, carbs and fat, in grams. Fiber sits under it.
• At the bottom of the meal list, Day total adds up every column. On a computer the table also has sodium and sugar columns, filled in when you entered them.
• A small line under the card says how much of the day is estimated, because meals from a photo or a recipe are not weighed.

To see how you are doing against a goal, set daily nutrition targets.

Common questions#

What does “no numbers yet” mean?#

It was added without calories, so it is not in the total. Open it, type the calories and Save.

Is anything here Pro only?#

No. Logging, editing and logging from a photo all work on Free. Only setting daily targets needs Pro. See Set daily nutrition targets. Estimating the nutrition of a saved recipe, from its recipe page, is a separate Pro feature. A recipe logged without numbers shows no numbers yet.