Personal Food Items

The Value of the Personal Food Item Most nutrition software packages let you add food items to the database. (They are not always called "Personal Food Items" but for the purposes of this web page, this term will be used.) Diet, nutrition, and fitness software that lets you add food items to the product normally do so by letting you enter the food item's nutrient information from the nutrition facts label. Some diet software also lets you make any database food item a PFI (Personal Food Item). Suppose there is a food item in the database that you eat every day and that you include in most of your recipes and meals. You recommend this food to all your clients. You don't want to have to look this item up every time you need it, so you make it a Personal Food Item (PFI). To do this, just look up the food item one time. Click on the food item to select it, then click the PFI Button at the bottom of the screen to make it a Personal Food Item (PFI). The software will automatically add it to the tabbed notebook of your PFI Manger. It should then be automatically alphabetized for you. If you want to edit the data, you can. Just open the PFI Manager and double-click on the item you wish to edit. You can enter data by entering the Percent Daily Values - the diet software should reverse-calculate the actual values for you. (This is useful for entering supplements to the database.) You can reach any PFI by clicking the PFI Manager Icon. All PFI's should be stored in tabbed notebooks so you can keep similar PFI's grouped together. You should be able to add tabs, rename tabs, or delete your tabs. You should be able to drag and drop your PFIs from tab to tab. All PFI's should automatically alphabetize themselves within each tab. You should be able to store your PFIs in multiple tabs if you have difficulty remember exactly where you saved them. For instance, you should be able to store your PFI for Spaghetti in the Pasta tab and the Entree tab if desired. To add any PFI in your list to a recipe, just click on the PFI and then click the Recipe Button. To add any PFI in your list to a meal, just click on the PFI and then click the Meal Button. To view all your PFIs in a spreadsheet view, click the View Button. To rank all your PfIs from high-to-low or low-to-high, click the box in the column header for the nutrient of interest. By having an easily accessible list of the foods you use most often, you can create recipes, meals, or meal plans by going to your PFI Manager instead of having to do a food name search each time you need to look up a common food item. Note: This description is a feature that is available in at least one nutrition and fitness software product. In some cases, this feature may be available in a variety of nutrition software products. When this feature is available, it will be implemented in different ways by different products. The description provided here is an accurate description of how this feature works in at least one of these products.

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