How to Track Meal Times in a Food Diary

Foodzilla lets you and your clients record the exact time a meal was eaten, not just the date. This makes it easier to review meal timing patterns alongside nutrition intake.

Meal times can be logged from the Client Portal and the Foodzilla mobile app.

How to Log a Meal Time as a Practitioner

Go to Clients.
Open the client’s profile.
Click More.
Select Log Foods.
Enter the Meal name.
Choose the Meal type, such as Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, or Snack.
Select the Date and Time the meal was eaten.
Add foods from the ingredient database or enter the macros manually.
Click Log Meal.

Once saved, the meal appears in the client’s diary and nutrition summary.

How Clients Log Meal Times

Clients have several ways to log meals and foods in the Foodzilla Client Portal and mobile app:

• Snap a Photo to let AI identify the meal

• Scan a Barcode to log packaged foods

• Log from Meal Plan to add foods from their assigned meal plan

• Log from Recipe Library to choose from available recipes

• Log Manually by searching and adding foods themselves

• Import from MyFitnessPal using a CSV export

When logging a meal, clients can also record the date and time eaten, helping you review both nutrition intake and meal timing.

Meal Times Work With Different Logging Methods

Meal timing can also be captured when clients log food using supported methods such as:

• Manual food entry

• Photo food logging

• Barcode scanning

This helps keep meal timing information consistent regardless of how the client records their food.

Suggested Meal Types Based on Time

Foodzilla can use the time of day to suggest an appropriate meal type.

For example, an entry logged around 8:00 AM may be suggested as Breakfast, while a meal logged later in the day may be suggested as Lunch or Dinner.

Clients and practitioners can still change the meal type if needed.

Why Track Meal Times?

Recording meal times can help practitioners review patterns such as:

• Meal spacing throughout the day

• Skipped meals

• Late night eating

• Pre workout and post workout nutrition

• Timing around appointments, sleep, or activity

• Consistency of eating habits

This gives more context than reviewing food intake by date alone.