deleting foods and meals

[jesusinside]

I'm new to using iscale, but how do you delete an item from your food
list? I added a food but now I want to delete it, I can edit it and
change it but can't delete it. I have the same problem with meals.
Only difference with meals I can delete items that make up a meal but
I can't delete the whole meal.

[Derrek Leute]

There is currently no delete for either foods or meals. There are
several lengthy explanations about why on this discussion board.

The short answer is foods need to exist forever. If you change a food
you end up changing your history. We left it this way so you can add
custom fields on a food and have that reflected throughout your entire
history, not just from that day on. This was primarily a design
decision due to feature that are coming out in the future (graphing
and a few other things). Foods shouldn't be changed once they have
been used unless there was a mistake in the food.

Meals can't be deleted for consistency. I didn't want to allow
deleting of one and not the other for user interface consistency.

That said, a future version will allow you to "hide" foods and meals
you no longer use to reduce clutter in your lists. This will be a best
of both worlds compromise.

--Derrek

[Melanie]

What I am doing for now is adding Z to the foods/meals I'm not using.
Ex Z pasta. I also added a 1 to the foods I eat daily. Ex 1 milk.
Hope that helps!

Sent from my iPhone

[Derrek Leute]

That is a fantastic idea! :)

--Derrek