What? You can't tag an item twice?

Ok, almost every day for lunch I have a cup of soup - lentil, chicken gumbo, minestrone, pea, etc. and a salad.  I made a "lentil soup" tag with the 3 items, the soup, the salad, and the salad dressing.  Then I made a chicken gumbo tag, but I noticed that there was only 1 item.  I figured I screwed up, so I added the salad to the tag, then I noticed it wasn't in the "lentil soup lunch" tag anymore. 

 You've got to be kidding me, righjt?  I'm doing soemthing wrong, I must be. You must be able to add an item to more than one tag, right?  If I have to add each item to a tag, then add each item to a meal - that is not very user friendly.

What you want to do is hit the + on the left side of your log next to the item to add it again. That item will come up and you can change the date and etc.

The tags are not designed to "create a meal" tag. They are more for creating a fast way to add that individual item to your list of foods eaten. What you can do though, is make a new recipe. Add the items to the recipe like you would if you were writing a real recipe, and then name it the name of the lunch you want to call it. Then you can tag the recipe, and find it under the tagged items tab when you click recipes. It may not be as easy but it will work that way.

At least that is what I think, I may be wrong about the tag thing so if you find out differently, let me know! Hope this helps!

When I complained to support about there not being an easy way to "add a meal", they replied that I could do that by using tags.  I guess I just cannot have different flavors of the same meal. 

You have to use the recipe tool to first add a meal.  Then you can tag it for future use.  As long as you give the meal different names, I believe that you can tag it with different flavors.

I am not sure I am understanding your question, but if I am, this is how I do it.
An item can have multiple tags, so it can appear in more than one "meal".
For instance, I use strawberries with my cereal every day.
My breakfast is the following (tags in parenthesis).

Breakfast
Fiber One (breakfast)
Soy Milk (breakfast, protein shake)
Strawberries (breakfast, protein shake, cottage cheese snack)

See, I use soy milk in more than one meal, so I have multiple tags, separated by a comma.

If that doesn't make sense, let me know.
I think I know what you are trying to do though, and it is possible.

mcderin,
Volunteer Moderator

You know, it occured to me that I could put in more than one tag name, and I tried that, but when I saved it, it just blanked out the tag.  Maybe I'll try it again. 

But, you do have it correct - what I want to do is have the same items (salad and salad dressing) with the 3 different kinds of soup that I usually eat with it for lunch. 

 

i just read through these posts, and i think what you need to do is have a tag called "lentil soup lunch" "minestrone lunch" and so on, and then add all of those tags to your salad and salad dressing.     i think that's a little different than what you have been doing.    it's the salad and the salad dressing that need multiple tags in order to show up in all the different lunches.