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title: "Log and create new foods quickly"
slug: "log-and-create-new-foods-quickly"
updated: 2024-04-24T19:18:00Z
published: 2024-04-24T19:18:00Z
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# Log and create new foods quickly

With Carb Manager’s Quick Entry feature, you can quickly log nutrients that are important to you for any food, even if the food isn’t in our database or you haven’t added it as a [custom food](/docs/en/create-custom-foods). For example, enter a food’s macros and glycemic load (which are important to track for low carb diets), its calories or kilojoules, or other nutrition information, and then log the food to a meal or snack. You can also save it as a custom food, which will appear in your [My Foods](/docs/en/find-foods-recipes-and-meals) list and is available for you to log again in the future.

**Tip:** To log common foods that are in the Carb Manager database or to log custom foods that you already created, see [Log one or more foods](/docs/en/log-one-or-more-foods).

1. Web app users: Go to the [Embedded object](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/home.svg) **Daily Log**.**Tip:** The daily log opens to today’s date. To log an item to a different date, select a date from the top of the screen. For more information, see [View any day in the daily log](/docs/en/view-any-day-in-the-daily-log).
2. Select [Embedded object](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/add.svg) **Add Item** > [Embedded object](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/add-food-btn.svg) **Add Food**. In the screen that opens, Carb Manager selects the meal or snack that is closest to the current time of day, but you can select a different meal type from the list at the top of the screen.**Tip:** You can also go to the section in the [Embedded object](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/home.svg) **Daily Log** for the type of meal that you want to log, such as Breakfast, and select the **Add Food** button.**Tip:** If you’re a [Premium member](/docs/en/subscribe-to-carb-manager-premium), you can change the time when a meal, snack, or supplement occurs. For details, see [Set time ranges for meals, snacks, and supplements](/docs/en/set-time-ranges-for-meals-snacks-and-supplements).
3. In the food selection screen, select [Embedded object](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/add-item.svg) **Add**> [Embedded object](https://cdn.document360.io/39f753db-7167-486f-a297-e9dee7536f7d/Images/Documentation/energy.svg) **Quick Entry**.
4. In the Quick Entry screen, enter details about the food, including its name and nutrition facts.**Tip:** If you turned on the setting to [track meal times](/docs/en/track-meal-times), select **Show Advanced** and you can change the time that will be logged with the entry.
5. Optional: To include a picture of the food, near the top of the Quick Entry window, either select **Set Icon** and choose an image from Carb Manager's library of icons, or select **Add Photo** and select an image from your mobile device or computer.
6. Select **Save**.
7. Complete one of the following steps.
  - Select the **Quick Add** button to add the nutrition information to the daily log.
  - Select **Add & Save as Custom** to save the food as a [custom food](/docs/en/create-custom-foods) in your [My Foods](/docs/en/find-foods-recipes-and-meals) list, then select **Add**to add the food and its nutrition information to the daily log.**Tip:** If you save the food as a custom food, you can select **Publish to Database** to add the food to our database.
8. Optional: If you are [fasting](/docs/en/working-with-fasting) and try to log food during a fasting window, select **Continue Logging & Keep Fasting** or **Log food & break my fast now**.**Tip:**To change the food's timestamp to a time within your eating window, select **Cancel** to return to the food's detail screen, select **Show Advanced**, and select a different **Date** or **Time**. Then, select **Add** to log the food.

The food and its nutrition summary appear in the daily log.