How does everyone find the time to use MFP?

[Toowittoowoo]

I have managed it for 2 days and it is so complicated and time consuming - am I missing something? I need to add every ingredient for everything I eat and then chose from a list of approximate calorific amounts? But I don't know how much onion was in my tea????

(Also according to MFP onions are surprisingly high I calories...? !?)

how do you all do it?

[StealthPolarBear]

Once youve done it for a few days all your stuff is in - you can create meals
if youre doing a particular recipe search for that recipe eg Jamie olivers lentil soup is already in
guess at how much onion! I cant do grams but put down eg 0.1 of a whole onion. I use "generic mixed salad" a lot. Onions should not be calorific - see the calories on others! If you arent 100% accurate you are still logging and that is the main thing imo.

[StealthPolarBear]

Oh and you can make meals.
I tend have the same thing over and over again so it's in my favourites

[BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack]

It's brilliant and doesnt take time at all....I presume you are using the bar code thing to scan all your food - MFP has the nutritional value of almost everything.

[katykuns]

I haven't found it all that time consuming... I often meal plan on it at the beginning of the day to help guide me.
I LOVE the barcode scanner because it really cuts the time down.

[Groovee]

I have created recipes etc and your regular ones come back up too.