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Log a meal

Track what you actually ate today against your active plan.

Time
2 min
You'll need:
An active nutrition plan

Your plan is what you intend to eat; your day log is what you actually ate. Logging a meal is the everyday action - open Koach, mark meals off as you go.

1. Open today's log

The Nutrition tab opens straight to today's log. Use the arrows next to the date to move between days, or Jump to today to snap back.

The nutrition day view for Thursday, September 3 (today): the Lean & Strong plan's kcal, protein, carbs, and fat totals against target, Breakfast collapsed to a completed row, and Lunch open showing its foods - Chicken breast, White rice, Broccoli, and Olive oil - with Add food and Complete buttons.

2. Add food to a meal

On any meal card, tap Add food. Search for a food or pick one from Recent foods, set its quantity and unit, then tap Add to meal. See Find foods for the full search flow.

The Add a food screen: a Search foods field with a barcode-scan icon inside it, and a Recent foods list starting with Chicken breast, cooked - each row showing its last-used serving, macro chips, and a trailing + button to add it to a multi-select batch - with a Show more button below the list and a Can't find it? Add a custom food link beneath it.

3. Switch which option you're eating

If a meal has alternatives, a small dot pager appears in the meal's header, next to its name - tap a dot or an arrow to switch which option's foods count for today, before you complete the meal.

Today's nutrition view scrolled to the Lunch card, its dot pager on the first option, showing Chicken breast, White rice, Broccoli, and Olive oil with Add food and Complete buttons below.

4. Complete a meal

Once you've logged everything for a meal, tap Complete. The card collapses into a single row with a checkmark and the meal's name.

5. Reopen a completed meal

Tap the collapsed row to reopen it and keep editing.

6. Copy yesterday, or reset today

  • Copy yesterday: on an empty day, tap Copy yesterday to bring over everything you logged the day before as a starting point.
  • Reset day: the reset icon in the header discards every edit you've made today and restores your active plan's default meals.

When it goes wrong

  • There's no plan to log against. You'll see a prompt to choose a meal plan - see Manage your nutrition plans to activate one.
  • The active plan has no meals. Add some from the plan editor - see Build out your meals.
  • A food shows no macros. It has no serving defined for the quantity's unit - try a different unit.