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MyPersonalDiet for Windows Mobile Smartphone User’s Guide 25
Combining Food Items Into Dishes
You can save one or more food items as a dish, and use that dish later on to expedite data
entry. Figure 10 shows the Meal screen with some food items. Choose the Dish button
and select New Dish; the New Dish 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 dish at some other time, select its name from the dish list, choose the Dish
button and select Add Dish. A single serving of that dish will be added, unless the option
“Always use 1 serving when adding this meal” was selected when adding/editing that
dish; 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 dish with the food items currently listed, choose the Dish
button and select Update Dish. To delete the dish, choose Delete Dish instead. Deleting
a meal does not remove the food items currently listed. To rename the dish or change the
servings it contains, choose Edit Dish.
Enter Your Own Food Items
In the Food Browser, you can add your own food items by choosing Menu > New Food.
This will show the Custom 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.
If you enter nutrients but no calories, MyPersonalDiet will prompt you with a default
value when you select Done. That default value is based on 4 calories per gram of Total
Carbs and Protein, and 9 calories per gram of Total Fat.