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Ability to create recipes in nutrition

Joe2042

Trying to move over from Cronometer. 

Nutrition portion of Garmin connect has good functionality for saved foods that aren't in the database, and for commonly repeated meals, but not for creating "Recipes". (A strong feature in competitive products)

Example: We make a homemade meal that includes multiple ingredients to make one dish. Other calorie trackers allow you to create the recipe and gives you the ability to manually add the ingredients to get the entire meal, then set gram based service sizes to divide up the total recipe for successful logging. Some are manual creation only, but the one I am using today allows you to search, scan a barcode or manually add ingredients, as well as the ability to take a photo of the actual recipe to have it auto search for the ingredients and calculate the total recipe. 

This functionality is required in Garmin Connect Nutrition to be competitive. 

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    This is a deal breaker. Trying to use Garmin connect to support a nutrition challenge, and I’m stumped on the first day when doing meal prep at home with multiple servings. I’m actually quite surprised this basic nutrition function doesn’t already exist. I won’t be able to use it to track my macros accurately, so I won’t continue past the free trial. 

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    I agree.  Also, when adding the “meal” to your daily diary, it would be nice if just the meal name and summary of nutritional information would appear and not the individual ingredients. 

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    I just logged three cookies that I baked from scratch. 

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    I have a lot of recipes in Cronometer. What I have been doing to test with Garmin is use Cronometer to get the metrics per serving then search for something similar. Oddly enough, I usually find something close. Not sure where the Garmin data is coming from. But, this is still a huge gap and you can't trust the blind data for something like this. 

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    Completely agree. Trying out the garmin nutrition piece now. There's no way I'll pay for this without the recipe feature. It's easier to add my exercise to the other nutrition apps than to add foods without a recipe to Connect!

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    Kind of wild this isn't a feature. Cancelling my trial after posting this. Happy to pay once this has been implemented.

    What Garmin really need to do though, is to implement an LLM that can create meals based on pasted recipes. That way I can just drop my recipes into the app. Would save so much time.

  • 0 in reply to Garmin - DK

    Is there a place to follow development and updates for connect+?  The Garmin Connect Web forum has too much other stuff going on to feasibly follow for connect+ specific updates.

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    Adding my support for this feature. I'm trying out Garmin Connect+ again after they added a bunch of stuff or things I didn't catch during my 1-month trial. Was happy to see they added nutrition/food logging, but I use the recipes feature quite a bit in MyFitnessPal to log different deserts and other meals that get portioned out after they are made.

    For example, I have a Ninja Creami and make a PB + Brownie protein ice cream. My recipe makes 1 pint (the size of the Ninja Creami cup). I don't eat an entire pint in one day. It's usally split in half or in 3rds. As it stands, I will have to add that recipe as a meal, log said meal, then go back and change each individual ingredient's amount that day for the portion that I ate. OR I guess I can make individual meals, adjust the ingredient portions, then label the meal as like "half pint" or "1/3 pint". Either way, big hassle for both.

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    Sounds like a real 1st World problem to me. I am an active subscriber and it was actually the added nutrition part that made me sign up. While I agree that it would be nice to add this feature, I don't think that it makes the nutrition part unserviceable. You can create meals, which is not too convienient right now but it somewhat works good enough for easy recipes. On top of that, I think that just adding incredients and then dividing your meal into grams is a somewhat flawed approach anyway because it can only give you an approximate calorie and macro value unless you know exactly how many of the peas you added to the dish are in each portion. 

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    It's about functionality. Cronmeter can take a scanned recipe and create a homemade food with proper macros. You can do this is Garmin manually, but it's no where near as functional. If they want to compete with Cronometer or MFP, the developers need to get moving.