What do you mean by custom recipes? You mean foods that you custom enter, or entire meals that you can select (consisting of multiple individual items)?

You can definitely add custom food or meals. Just type their name in the bar and click "add from nutritional facts". You can also merge multiple ingredients to create a custom recipe.

Also user of Cronometer... Very impressed with user interface and ease of use, and foodlist.

Lack of recipes is a drawback. I accept combination option, but cant see afterwards ingredients of 'recipe'.

Add this feature and i will buy before MU promo ends. ;)

I am sorry but I see no obvious way to add a custom recipe (not a custom food, but a recipe). For example, here is a recipe I want to add for a spicy egg frittata -- how do I go about doing this?

2 large egg whites
1 large egg whole
1/4 cup onions
1 small tomato
1 5" stalk celery
2 T skim milk
1 t flax seed ground
1/4 t salt
1 t olive oil
2 T grated Parmesan

Even something simple as above is a cinch in Cronometer. I can't imagine how this can be done in Healthnut. A more complicated recipe such as an Indian or a Moroccan dish would be very difficult to create and enter in this program.

Please do correct me if I am wrong.

You want to add those ingredients from the search bar, in the quantities that you mentioned. Then select them and click "Merge". This will create a new recipe (that you can name and assign a category) with your ingredients.

Ok. I stand corrected. There *is* a way to add a custom recipe, as described by the developer above. It is, however, very complicated and non-obvious. Here are the steps --

1. First, add all the individual ingredients to your daily journal, as if you have actually eaten a cup of flour, half a cup of oil, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, etc.

1a. If requiring a custom ingredient, add a new food with its nutritional value.

2. Then, select all the ingredient foods added to your daily journal, and hit "Merge" to create a new custom food (a recipe). This will remove all the individual ingredients from your daily journal replacing them with the merged food name (for example, "Cinnamon pancakes"). However, this action, for some reason, replaces all the nutritional values with nan (not a number). Seems like a programming error. In any case, if this did work, you would have to go in and edit the portion to however many pancakes you ate.

3. Let's say you made a mistake.... instead of 1 t of cinnamon, you actually added 2 t of cinnamon. Seems like you can't edit a merged food. You can only edit its nutritional value, not its merged component foods.

Another gripe -- can't do a free-form search. So, searching for "oil, olive" works, but searching for "oil olive" does not work. Without free form search this program is very cumbersome.

The program also needs something more than just eye-candy and food editing -- it really needs biomarkers and exercise history.

Sorry, but until the above glitches improve, I am going back to Cronometer, which is a very capable program at twice its price (free). I have no problem paying for a Mac-native, actively developed health nutrition program, but Healthnut is not there yet.