As I was editing my Custom Foods to add the sodium counts, when I clicked on "Replace Custom Item," a little Information Box popped up on my screen advising me that, in order to edit the Custom Food I had just tried to edit, I would first have to go back and delete it from where I had used it in my daily food entries.
Since I have been using MyPLAN every day for 4 or 5 months, that meant I would have to go back through all of those months and look at every food I had eaten on each day. Then, wherever I found the Custom Food I was trying to edit, I would have to remove it from the foods I had eaten that day. Only then could I go back and click on "Replace Custom Item" and have it be accepted.
I actually searched out 2 of my Custom Foods in order to delete them from the days I had eaten them. It was a major chore! Some of the Custom Foods I was able to edit
without having to search them out and remove them. I don't understand why, because I only create Custom Foods when I first need to add them to the list of foods I ate on that day.
I never create Custom Foods in advance, intending to use them later. For that reason, I
know that
all of my Custom Foods have already been included in at least
one day's food entry. And yet, for some foods, that little Information Box did
not pop up, and my edit was accepted immediately.
I like being able to go back and look at what I ate each day. If I were to hit another stall, knowing what I had been eating a lot of could help me identify the reason for the stall. I lose that capability if I have to go back and delete foods, because my records then become incomplete and inaccurate.
I discovered that I had a duplicate entry for one of the foods on my Custom Foods list. I had entered DaVinci Sugar-Free Syrup twice. I was unable to delete either one of them. I use these syrups every day, and I
always select it from my "Favorites" list that appears immediately below the list of foods I eaten for that day on the Daily Entry page. I don't know why I wasn't able to just delete one or the other of the DaVinci Syrup entries, but I couldn't.
Because we aren't able to have multlple pages for Favorites, multiple pages for Custom Foods, etc., I'd like to keep my entries in each category to as few as possible. The
main thing I would like to see, though, would be the ability to edit Custom Foods without first having to go back through several months of daily entries on a "search and destroy" mission to delete each use of the item.