I finally signed up on Fit Day and I have a few questions. What if you eat Maggie's cereal for breakfast? How do you enter something like that? Also, for lunch I had Beef and Mushroom stew from Whole Foods - it's premade in the hot food section. How do you show foods that are not on the list?

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Fit Day lets you enter custom foods. So, for the cereal, for instance, you can create a custom food called "maggie's cereal" and enter all the nutritional information which is with the cereal in our recipe section. Next time you want to enter it, you just choose it from your custom food list.

As for the stew, I don't know. Maybe you can get the nutritional information for a portion from the store? Then you could make a custom food from that.

HTH

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For most commercial foods, you should be able to get the nutritional info off a label. Just enter that for a custom food. Whole Foods may be able to supply you with an ingredients list for their pre-made foods--I mean, they do serve fussy customers, after all. People surely want to know.

And speaking of wanting to know--pre-made foods, such as deli counter salads and stews--often contain ingredients that are non-LC friendly, such as sugar, corn starch, and flour (for gravy thickener). If you're counting carbs carefully, you really do need to know what's in them.

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