Wanted: Food Tracking App/Website

[tinkerer]

Does anyone know of a food/calorie tracking app or website that has the following features?

• Allows sharing recipes between users
  
• Allows cut/paste analysis of recipes
  
• Is somewhat accurate

My wife and I are both interested in tracking what we eat (which is usually pretty similar) but for different reasons. I am interested in gaining some muscle and my wife would like to eliminate some extra weight. More importantly, we both want to learn more about what our diets are actually comprised of.

The ideal app/website would allow us to upload our common recipes (we cook almost all of our own food) and then just select how much of which recipe we had for each meal. We would track intake separately (under two accounts?) Does such a thing exist?

We tried MyFitnessPal but we make a bunch of different foods and the recipe builder was very time-consuming.

Thanks!

[Tocho]

I was going to suggest MyFitnessPal... Sorry, don't know of any others that are good. (MFP is the only one I've used, but I don't use it anymore.)

[Gobnait]

Someone tried to get me to use Loseit, haven't fought with it yet though.

[spencer_]

EatThisMuch lets you generate a meal plan based on specific wants (i.e. you can change meal options to Paleo, Keto, Vegetarian, Vegan, etc) based on the number of calories you want. It'll suggest recipes that you can view, and it breaks down the specific macro- and micronutrients of each one as well as the overall macronutrients you'll get in the entire day of food. You'd have to sign up for an account to save the meal plan, but you can also add your own recipe, modify the ones in there and keep generating certain parts of the day if you don't like a food type.

[lisl_luvs_beer]

I use Livestrong.com- It has a ton of foods that are verified, and also has a bunch of restaurant foods. It also lets you track excersize and other stuff. and it's free!

and you can share your recipes with all the nutritional stuff calculated.

Lisa

[Laney]

The app called Noom has a forum with recipes and stuff that you can cut/paste/copy to and from. Plus it's simple tracking

[tinkerer]

Thanks everyone...looks like I have some testing and research to do! I'll report back with opinions.

[Gobnait]

I'll be waiting anxiously, need something easy.

[Gainsdalf the Whey]

I love me some livestrong.com and said app.

[tinkerer]

OK so I looked at the suggested ideas and none were quite what I was after. Adding the ingredients line by line is more time consuming that we are likely to keep up with (I'm serious when I say we make a lot of different foods.)

My wife found the Calorie Counter at about.com. It has a deal where you can cut/paste a recipe directly into a text box and it does the math...which is what we were after. Here is the recipe analyzer.

Not sure yet how well ongoing tracking work, but this will at least allow us to get a sense of calories and macros.

Thanks for the input folks, please post if you have more thoughts, we aren't fully decided at this point.

[Gobnait]

Oooh, that does look like it would be easy enough for me too. You could probably use a spreadsheet for the tracking at that point.

[Iblis]

Just wanted to put in my 2 cents about caloriecount.about.com. I love love love it. It's super easy to add recipes (copy and paste ingredients) and modify them (tweak servings and ingredients) to suit your needs. I know all of my recipes are viewable by other users, so I think you can share between users, but I've never tried to see anybody else's recipes. My list includes everything from childhood favorites to new recipes from food blogs. I find myself using the analyzer a lot - at the very least before I try any new recipe.

[dajve]

I've been using Calorie Count pretty much religiously since mid-February and would definitely recommend that.

[spezzy]

fatsecret.com

no frills but can save recipes and logs well.

only one i use

[Weazley]

EatThisMuch lets you generate a meal plan based on specific wants (i.e. you can change meal options to Paleo, Keto, Vegetarian, Vegan, etc) based on the number of calories you want. It'll suggest recipes that you can view, and it breaks down the specific macro- and micronutrients of each one as well as the overall macronutrients you'll get in the entire day of food. You'd have to sign up for an account to save the meal plan, but you can also add your own recipe, modify the ones in there and keep generating certain parts of the day if you don't like a food type.

I'd never heard of this site before, but love the simplicity of it. As a way to come up with a no frills, random "What should I have for dinner", this site is perfect. I'll still actually track my food on MyFitnessPal, but thanks for the recommendation!

[Wirilome]

I use lose it. I like it.

[DarkCustom]

I use Fitday. It's alright.

[Gobnait]

I use Fitday. It's alright.

Fitbit doesn't seem to have eggs in its database.

[Athaclena]

I use Livestrong as well and don't mind entering recipes line by line. Several of my recipes are there already

I'll check out the caloriecount.about.com site as another resource....

[Wolverine]

Pseudo-threadjack - does anyone use an online journal that lets you set different calorie/macro goals based on the day? I use MFP and while I like it, I'm starting to want to get into some cycling based on workout days, and I can only set one calorie goal for everything on MFP.

[Gobnait]

http://www.mealographer.com/index.html is another one I found, though it also doesn't seem to handle weight.