FoodieApp uses a microblogging (think: Twitter or Mastodon) to gather information about your eating habits. The posting interface offers you the convenience of using a well-known interaction while at the same time providing FoodieBots with enough context to reason about the food you eat.
You describe the food you eat and send it as a text post for your friendly FoodieBot to look into.
As simple as that!
FoodieApp works for you
One of the building principles behind FoodieApp is that the app works for you and not the other way around. Reporting meals is a place where this principle shines the most. Use natural language for the medium, and let us worry about making the most sense of your texts.
Another design philosophy we employ is the 20/80% rule - FoodieApp offers you 80% of the value with 20% effort on your end. With text post as input, you have complete control over how detailed you want to be with the app. The more detail you put, the more accurate insights FoodieBots can collect. On the other hand, if you’re in a rush or don’t really care that much - you can be as brief as you want and let the bots fill in the gaps.
Finally, use FoodieApp to track what you care about… Do You care only about reducing your carbon footprint? Not a problem - text us whenever you eat red or pink meat. Do You want to track iron supplementation? Just include it in your texts. Do You want to reach the magical goal of 52 different foods a week? You’re in for a ride, but we’ve got you covered - just text each unique ingredient in your meals.
OK… but how?
Interested in some specific examples? See below for how a particular meal can be tracked with FoodieApp.
Let’s assume that you’re having dinner composed of a burger with 3 different types of chips on the side. That meal can be tracked with FoodieApp differently, based on what you’re after.
The Environmentalist
The Minimalist
The Honest Man
The Truth Seeker
The Absolutist
Useful tips
- If you care about tracking the time of a meal (e.g. to have a pretty Map of Protein) and you want to add a meal you ate some time ago, you can always add to your text a phrase like “2 hours ago”, “2:30 pm” or so.
- You can use our simplified copy-and-paste function if you want to be precise but don’t want to type a lot.
- You don’t have to describe all your food in a single message. Texts sent to FoodieBots within a 45-minute window will be treated as a single meal session.