Log Entries & Meals

A log entry records one thing: a person ate (or will eat) a food at a meal. Everything Tuna tells you about nutrition, cost, and progress is built from these records, and everything in the pantry stays accurate because of them.

Planned versus confirmed

Every entry is in one of two states. A planned entry is an intention: tomorrow's lunch, tonight's dinner you haven't cooked yet. Planning sets pantry food aside so two dinners can't count on the same chicken. A confirmed entry is a fact: it happened, and the pantry was drawn down for real.

Tuna decides which one an entry is, the same way everywhere:

• A meal that hasn't started yet is planned.
• A meal that has started is confirmed, as long as the pantry has the food.
• Food that isn't in the pantry yet, or is short, stays planned until it is.

When a planned meal happens, tap Had it on the Meals tab. Missed a few days? Review past meals lists every meal still waiting, and one tap settles each. A plan nobody answers lapses a week after its date and lets go of the food it set aside.

Only what's available

Food planned for one meal is never quietly eaten by another. If you track something that's set aside for Tuesday's lunch, Tuna tells you and offers Change that plan, so you choose. The same goes for cooking: a recipe line that would use food planned elsewhere asks whether to use what's available, scale the recipe down, or put the rest on the grocery list.

Meals

Tracking several things at once (the rice, the curry, the yogurt on the side) creates one meal, not a pile of separate records. The meal moves as a unit:

• Edited together: open the meal from the Meals tab and change the curry's portion without hunting through rows.
• Confirmed together: Had it settles the whole dinner.
• Made again together: a meal under Made before (tap a pantry item, Plan, then Cook) comes back with every food and the same amounts for the table.

Who it's for

Every entry belongs to a person, not just a household:

• Track the same dinner for two adults and a kid in one pass.
• Split portions evenly or slide them per person.
• Everyone's numbers stay their own, and kids can have profiles without accounts.

Cooked versus eaten

Some things are used to make something else. When you cook, the ingredients are recorded as cooked (they left the pantry into the pot), and the dish itself is what people eat.

That's why leftovers work: the pot is a pantry item, and eating leftovers takes servings from it. Never track the raw ingredients again; they were already counted when you cooked. A cook you planned and then made shows up in Review past meals as "Did you make it?", so it's never forgotten.

Estimates stay labeled

Entries from a described restaurant meal carry estimated nutrition with a confidence label (High, Medium, Low). The estimate is honest about being one, and it never quietly blends into numbers that came from labels.

Related

• Tracking step by step: Track Your Meals.
• Planning ahead: Plan Your Meals.