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beginner6 min tutorialiOS

Log calories and meals quickly

Track what you eat without turning every meal into data entry. Covers fast logging, editing an entry, and checking your daily total as the day goes on.

The Tase TeamTase LLC2 min read

Calorie tracking fails for the same reason expense tracking fails: the entry takes too long, so you stop doing it, and the data goes stale. Tase is set up so a normal meal fits in a few taps, and your running total updates the moment you save.

What you need

A daily calorie target is helpful but optional. You can log first and set a target later once you see your baseline.

Walkthrough: log one meal

  1. 1

    Open the Health tab

    Tap Health in the tab bar. The nutrition and meal logging section lives here alongside medications, vitals, and habits.
  2. 2

    Tap add meal or calorie entry

    Choose whether you are logging a full meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack) or a quick calorie entry. Full meals keep a food history; quick entries are for when you just want the number logged.
  3. 3

    Enter the food and amount

    Type what you ate, for example "chicken bowl" or "black coffee." Enter the amount or portion. Tase focuses the calorie field next so you can fill in the total.
  4. 4

    Save and check your daily total

    Tap save. Your running calorie total for the day updates on the same screen, measured against your target if you have set one.
  5. 5

    Edit if you got the amount wrong

    Tap any entry in today's list to edit the calories or the food name. The daily total recalculates from the corrected value.

Keep it honest, not obsessive

The goal of logging is an accurate daily picture, not a perfect record. If you forget an entry, log it when you remember rather than skipping it. One missed snack matters far less than a habit of giving up because the data feels incomplete.

Pair it with a habit

Logging right after you finish eating (not at the end of the day) is the single biggest factor in keeping the data accurate. The meal is fresh in your mind and the entry takes seconds.

What the daily total tells you

  • Whether you are over, under, or near your target for the day.
  • Which meals tend to be the largest, so you can adjust where it matters.
  • A baseline over a week or two, which is more useful than any single day.

Nutrition tracking only works if it lasts. By keeping each entry short and surfacing the running total immediately, Tase makes it realistic to log every meal instead of just the easy ones.

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