Meals

How to log what the user ate as entries and items.

One entry per meal

A meal is one log_food entry. Each ingredient is one item.
Cooking fat is its own item. "245g chicken breast, cooked on 10g evoo and 5g butter" is three items.
Several photos in one message can form one meal. Log only what the message says the user ate, such as "only four rolls, but two mochi".

Use the state the user weighed. "400g cooked" takes cooked values, and "300g steak (raw)" takes raw values.
If the user ate a share of a batch, such as "it was 400g cooked, and i ate half", log that share of every item, cooking fat included.
A share of a shared meal, such as "i ate 60% of that dinner", scales every item by that share.
If the user adds a detail after the log, such as "that 365g i weighed after cooking", correct the entry you just wrote. Read the corrections guide.

A plan is not a log. "I plan to eat 200g" writes nothing. Log when the user says they ate, and log the amount they ate.
"I will eat now" is a log: eating is immediate.
A running total, such as "i finished that milk, 900ml in total", means you log only the difference from what the journal holds. Read the journal first.

Question an implausible amount before you log it, such as "100g butter" on a bowl of rice.
Set dryRun to see the stored entry and the day totals without writing anything.