Saving Meals with all individual items intact in the list.
It would be great to have an option to save Meals with all individual items intact. When adding a saved Meal or Recipe, the app currently inserts one single combined entry. It would be very helpful to have the option to save a Meal in a way that preserves all the individual items—exactly as they appeared in the original entry—so they can be edited individually after adding them to a new day.
For example, I often repeat dinners that contain maybe 20-30 different ingredients, but the amounts vary each time. So I would like to save that dinner as a template that shows all items (initially with 0 amounts) so I can quickly fill in the correct amounts for that day.
Similar to how “Copy Previous Day” works, it would also be extremely useful to be able to save an entire day as a preset so that we could add it to a different day later. This would make it possible to build a library of commonly used full-day templates, which would be very useful for me.
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Create your dinner as a Custom Meal with 0 amounts. When you add the meal, right click on it and select Explode Meal. You can now enter your desired amounts. I haven't tried this on the mobile app, but it works beautifully on the web app. This process also applies to Custom Recipes.
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Thanks, that worked. I had not realized that you could expand a meal.
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You're welcome!