A saved meal and a recipe both help with repetition, but they describe different things. A saved meal is useful when you want to reuse foods you already logged together. A recipe is useful when you want to build a dish from ingredients and record an amount of the finished dish. Choosing the right one can make later portions easier to understand.
Save a combination you repeat
Think of the breakfast you often eat: the same yogurt, the same add-on and the same drink. If you want to reuse those journal items as a group, a saved meal is a natural fit. It records a familiar combination rather than requiring you to describe the foods from scratch each time.
The current Saved meals screen explains two shortcuts: long-press a value in the journal and choose Save as meal; type @ in the journal to use a saved meal. Use the actual name shown in your saved collection so you can tell similar combinations apart.
Use a recipe for a prepared dish
Recipes suit foods assembled from ingredients, especially when the amount eaten varies. Morsel’s Recipes screen describes building a recipe once and logging it by a bowl or by grams. That is a different task from repeating several separate diary items together.
A recipe only remains representative if its ingredients and portions still describe what you made. When the preparation changes, review the recipe rather than assuming its old values automatically describe the new batch. The recipe builder itself is not pictured in this guide, so exact field names are not assumed here.
Name things for the next time
Choose names you can recognize without opening every item. “Usual yogurt breakfast” is more distinguishable than several meals all called “breakfast.” For a recipe, the preparation name can be more useful than the time of day you first ate it.
When reusing a meal or recipe, check the amount rather than assuming yesterday’s portion applies. Also look for accidental duplicates if you have already typed part of the same meal into the journal.
Know which plan includes what
Morsel Free includes up to 15 saved meals. Pro extends saved-meal access and includes Recipes, along with photo logging, Insights and other tools. Pro is $3 USD per month, with local pricing shown in the app.
If the main issue is an ambiguous multi-ingredient entry, read logging mixed dishes first. For the full feature list, see Morsel Free versus Pro.
