Notes on counting macros accurately and the apps that try to, from the person building MyMealStream.
Favourites, the share sheet route, why a shared TikTok link often arrives in a form apps choke on, and how to get the ingredients out of a photo carousel where the recipe is a graphic rather than text.
The free way with Instagram's own bookmark, what to do when the recipe is in the comments instead of the caption, how to organise what you save, and the part that gets left out, which is knowing what is actually in the food.
Checked against Paprika's own documentation. It imports from recipe websites and recipe file formats, not social media. Three ways to get a reel into Paprika anyway, and when a different app is the better answer.
What actually changed at MyFitnessPal, which apps are genuinely worth switching to, and why a free barcode scanner does not mean the numbers it gives you are right.
Adding up the ingredients is the easy part. Raw versus cooked, fat lost in the pan, bad database rows and missing lines are what actually move the number.