Problem persisting model programmatically after a Container upload, using Container.afterRemote

[Groo]

I've been stuck for a while trying to make this work, I can't see the issue and no errors but Model(Meal) does not get persisted to MongoDB. Normal calls to meal create from rest api do work properly, any ideas? 

var app = require('../../server/server');

module.exports = function(Container, app) {
  Container.afterRemote('upload', function(ctx, unused, next){
    console.log(ctx.result.result.fields.meal[0]);
    console.log('after remote');

    var mealFromMobile = ctx.result.result.fields.meal[0];
    console.log('got meal from mobile: ' + mealFromMobile);
    var picName = mealFromMobile.mealPicture.substr(mealFromMobile.mealPicture.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
    console.log(picName);

    var Meal = app.models.Meal;
    var meal = {
      "mealDate": mealFromMobile.mealDate,
      "mealPicture": picName
    };
    console.log("meal? : " + meal);
    Meal.create(meal, function(error, result) {
      if(err){
        console.log(err);
        next();
      }
      console.log('persisted');
      console.log(result);
      next();
    });
    console.log('exiting afterRemote');
  });
};

 Thanks in advance