finding organic, vegan, health food on this site

i'm a new user.

I just tried entering my food for the day with my first entry being hemp protein. Doesn't exist in the data base and seemingly no way to add it for my own use or for other users.

vegans also tend to eat less major commercial food that everyone else eats. many of the products you see at Whole Foods aren't in this database...

Am I missing something? What do you veggies use this site for if you can't find your food listed?

If you go into your food log there is option 1 and option 2.  The first is to look for foods in the database and the second is to add something that you can't find.  Just look for it next time your in your food log, it's not hard at all to add new things.

thank you for answering my question :)

Still, it's annoying as hell that I have to log 75% of my food manually because I don't eat canned beans and kellog's cereal.  I feel you, balanced_maintenance.

I wrote in with a feature request the ability to create my own recipes.  Here is the response I got (I haven't tried it yet):

We do feature a recipe analyzer.   It's located under "Foods" and then 
sub menu "New Recipe".   Direct link:  
http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analy sis.php*

I never have a problem logging because I don't eat processed foods.  It's really easy to log "apples" "spinach" "black beans" "brown rice" "carrots" etc.  We really don't need all that artificial, factory made food.

You're right, clairelaine.  I guess it isn't so bad really.  The thing that really bugs me is not being able to tell if CC is measuring things dry or cooked sometimes, like with quinoa for example.

I use the recipe analyzer all the time, gpat919.  It actually works pretty well and is less time consuming than entering each individual ingredient (for like homemade salsa or cookies or something) but sometimes it doesn't recognize things like "juice of 1/2 lemon" or "nutritional yeast".  I discovered recently, however, that you can enter things in the recipe analyzer by item number instead of by name.  So, if you open another browser tab and find the product you're looking for (it's in the address bar) you can enter that instead of the name.  Does that make sense?