Author
Patrick Bass Submitted
Sep 4, 2026 9:46am Summary
Family meal sharing: sending a meal to your Family Group, logging one somebody sent you, and the one switch that turns it off in both directions
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'''One person cooks, everybody logs it.''' Send a meal from your food diary to the rest of your Loopa Family Group and they can put it on their own day in a tap — at their own portion, in their own meal slot, in their own diary.
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'''One person cooks, everybody logs it.''' Send a meal from your food diary to the rest of your Loopa Family Group and they can put it on their own day in a tap, at their own portion, in their own meal slot, in their own diary.
Sending is part of '''Loopa Premium''', which every member of a live Family Group already has through the group. Receiving a meal and logging it is free.
== Before you start ==
You need to be in a '''Loopa Family Group'''. If you are not in one yet, see [[family-group-creating|Creating a family group]] and [[family-group-joining|Joining a family group]].
== Sending a meal ==
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=== From today's food log ===
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=== As you log the food ===
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The fastest way, and the one most people use.
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1. Add a food the way you normally do (search, barcode, a saved meal, or a photo of the plate).
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1. On the screen where you set the portion, turn on '''Share with family?'''
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1. Add the food.
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It is logged to your own day and offered to your family in the same tap, and Loopa tells you how many people it reached. The switch starts '''off''' every time, so nothing goes out unless you turn it on for that food.
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=== One food out of your day ===
1. Open '''Health → Food'''.
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1. Find the meal you want — breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack.
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1. Find the food in the day's list.
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1. Press and hold it on iPhone, or tap its '''share''' icon on Android and the web.
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1. Choose '''Share with family'''.
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Use this when you want to send the chilli and not the drink you had beside it.
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=== A whole meal ===
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1. Open '''Health → Food'''.
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1. Find the meal you want (breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack).
1. Press and hold the meal, or tap the '''share''' icon on its header.
1. Choose '''Share with family'''.
1. Check who it is going to, then tap '''Share'''.
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=== A saved meal, without logging it ===
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1. Open '''Health → Food → My Meals'''.
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1. Find the meal and tap '''Share'''.
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This offers your family the plate as you saved it and leaves your own day untouched. Useful for handing round Sunday's roast on a Thursday. A recipe that makes four servings is offered as '''one serving''', not the whole batch.
=== From your meal history ===
1. Open '''Health → Food → History''' and pick the day.
1. Open the meal.
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1. Tap '''Share with family''' — or tick individual foods first and share only those.
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1. Tap '''Share with family''', or tick individual foods first and share only those.
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Either way you get a confirmation showing the meal name and how many people will receive it. Nothing is sent until you tap the button.
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Every route except the switch gives you a confirmation showing the meal name and how many people will receive it. Nothing is sent until you tap the button.
== What travels, and what does not ==
'''A frozen copy of that meal.''' The foods, their portions, the calories and macros for each one, which meal of the day it was, and the date you ate it. Your name goes with it, so your family knows who cooked.
'''Nothing else.''' Not the rest of your day, not your weight, your targets, your allergen list, or anything you did not send. The photograph of the plate never leaves your own account.
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'''It is a copy, not a window.''' Change or delete the meal in your own diary afterwards and what your family already holds does not move. That is deliberate — nobody should find that tonight's dinner rewrote itself.
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'''It is a copy, not a window.''' Change or delete the meal in your own diary afterwards and what your family already holds does not move. That is deliberate. Nobody should find that tonight's dinner rewrote itself.
== What your family can do with it ==
Each of them, separately:
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* '''Log it''' — as it came, or at a different portion, on a different day, in a different meal.
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* '''Change it and pass it on''' — they open it in the meal editor, adjust it, and reshare their version to the group. You get their version like anybody else.
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* '''Ignore it''' — it leaves their list and nobody else is affected.
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* '''Log it.''' As it came, or at a different portion, on a different day, in a different meal.
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* '''Change it and pass it on.''' They open it in the meal editor, adjust it, and reshare their version to the group. You get their version like anybody else.
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* '''Ignore it.''' It leaves their list and nobody else is affected.
Anything they log becomes '''their own diary entry''': theirs to edit, theirs to delete, counted in their own totals.
== Seeing how it landed ==
Open the meal you shared and you will see how many people logged it, and which of them. That is the same visibility your Family Group already gives its members of each other's names.
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You are not notified each time somebody acts — the list is there whenever you want it.
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You are not notified each time somebody acts. The list is there whenever you want it.
== A shared meal lasts a week ==
Seven days after you send it, a meal nobody has acted on stops being offered and leaves their list. Anything already logged from it stays exactly where it is.
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== When you do not see the switch ==
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'''Share with family?''' appears on a food only when all three of these are true: you are in a Loopa Family Group, family meal sharing is on for you, and you are logging the food rather than editing one you already logged. If any of them is not true the switch is simply absent.
== Sending several, or sending often ==
A meal can hold up to 60 foods. You can send up to 30 meals an hour, which is far more than a household ever needs and is there to keep things tidy.
== If somebody is not on the list ==
The people shown are the members of your group who are able to receive meals right now. Somebody who has turned family meal sharing off simply is not there. You are not told why anybody is missing, and neither are they.
== Turning it off ==
See [[family-meal-sharing-on-or-off|Turning family meal sharing on or off]].
== See also ==
* [[logging-a-meal-your-family-shared|Logging a meal your family shared]]
* [[family-group-what-is-shared|What a family group shares, and what it never shares]]
* [[family-group-shared-pantry|The shared family pantry]]
* [[meal-history|Meal history]]
'''One person cooks, everybody logs it.''' Send a meal from your food diary to the rest of your Loopa Family Group and they can put it on their own day in a tap — at their own portion, in their own meal slot, in their own diary.
Sending is part of '''Loopa Premium''', which every member of a live Family Group already has through the group. Receiving a meal and logging it is free.
== Before you start ==
You need to be in a '''Loopa Family Group'''. If you are not in one yet, see [[family-group-creating|Creating a family group]] and [[family-group-joining|Joining a family group]].
== Sending a meal ==
=== From today's food log ===
- Open '''Health → Food'''.
- Find the meal you want — breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack.
- Press and hold the meal, or tap the '''share''' icon on its header.
- Choose '''Share with family'''.
- Check who it is going to, then tap '''Share'''.
=== From your meal history ===
- Open '''Health → Food → History''' and pick the day.
- Open the meal.
- Tap '''Share with family''' — or tick individual foods first and share only those.
Either way you get a confirmation showing the meal name and how many people will receive it. Nothing is sent until you tap the button.
== What travels, and what does not ==
'''A frozen copy of that meal.''' The foods, their portions, the calories and macros for each one, which meal of the day it was, and the date you ate it. Your name goes with it, so your family knows who cooked.
'''Nothing else.''' Not the rest of your day, not your weight, your targets, your allergen list, or anything you did not send. The photograph of the plate never leaves your own account.
'''It is a copy, not a window.''' Change or delete the meal in your own diary afterwards and what your family already holds does not move. That is deliberate — nobody should find that tonight's dinner rewrote itself.
== What your family can do with it ==
Each of them, separately:
- '''Log it''' — as it came, or at a different portion, on a different day, in a different meal.
- '''Change it and pass it on''' — they open it in the meal editor, adjust it, and reshare their version to the group. You get their version like anybody else.
- '''Ignore it''' — it leaves their list and nobody else is affected.
Anything they log becomes '''their own diary entry''': theirs to edit, theirs to delete, counted in their own totals.
== Seeing how it landed ==
Open the meal you shared and you will see how many people logged it, and which of them. That is the same visibility your Family Group already gives its members of each other's names.
You are not notified each time somebody acts — the list is there whenever you want it.
== A shared meal lasts a week ==
Seven days after you send it, a meal nobody has acted on stops being offered and leaves their list. Anything already logged from it stays exactly where it is.
== Sending several, or sending often ==
A meal can hold up to 60 foods. You can send up to 30 meals an hour, which is far more than a household ever needs and is there to keep things tidy.
== If somebody is not on the list ==
The people shown are the members of your group who are able to receive meals right now. Somebody who has turned family meal sharing off simply is not there. You are not told why anybody is missing, and neither are they.
== Turning it off ==
See [[family-meal-sharing-on-or-off|Turning family meal sharing on or off]].
== See also ==
- [[logging-a-meal-your-family-shared|Logging a meal your family shared]]
- [[family-group-what-is-shared|What a family group shares, and what it never shares]]
- [[family-group-shared-pantry|The shared family pantry]]
- [[meal-history|Meal history]]
'''One person cooks, everybody logs it.''' Send a meal from your food diary to the rest of your Loopa Family Group and they can put it on their own day in a tap — at their own portion, in their own meal slot, in their own diary. Sending is part of '''Loopa Premium''', which every member of a live Family Group already has through the group. Receiving a meal and logging it is free. == Before you start == You need to be in a '''Loopa Family Group'''. If you are not in one yet, see [[family-group-creating|Creating a family group]] and [[family-group-joining|Joining a family group]]. == Sending a meal == === From today's food log === 1. Open '''Health → Food'''. 1. Find the meal you want — breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack. 1. Press and hold the meal, or tap the '''share''' icon on its header. 1. Choose '''Share with family'''. 1. Check who it is going to, then tap '''Share'''. === From your meal history === 1. Open '''Health → Food → History''' and pick the day. 1. Open the meal. 1. Tap '''Share with family''' — or tick individual foods first and share only those. Either way you get a confirmation showing the meal name and how many people will receive it. Nothing is sent until you tap the button. == What travels, and what does not == '''A frozen copy of that meal.''' The foods, their portions, the calories and macros for each one, which meal of the day it was, and the date you ate it. Your name goes with it, so your family knows who cooked. '''Nothing else.''' Not the rest of your day, not your weight, your targets, your allergen list, or anything you did not send. The photograph of the plate never leaves your own account. '''It is a copy, not a window.''' Change or delete the meal in your own diary afterwards and what your family already holds does not move. That is deliberate — nobody should find that tonight's dinner rewrote itself. == What your family can do with it == Each of them, separately: * '''Log it''' — as it came, or at a different portion, on a different day, in a different meal. * '''Change it and pass it on''' — they open it in the meal editor, adjust it, and reshare their version to the group. You get their version like anybody else. * '''Ignore it''' — it leaves their list and nobody else is affected. Anything they log becomes '''their own diary entry''': theirs to edit, theirs to delete, counted in their own totals. == Seeing how it landed == Open the meal you shared and you will see how many people logged it, and which of them. That is the same visibility your Family Group already gives its members of each other's names. You are not notified each time somebody acts — the list is there whenever you want it. == A shared meal lasts a week == Seven days after you send it, a meal nobody has acted on stops being offered and leaves their list. Anything already logged from it stays exactly where it is. == Sending several, or sending often == A meal can hold up to 60 foods. You can send up to 30 meals an hour, which is far more than a household ever needs and is there to keep things tidy. == If somebody is not on the list == The people shown are the members of your group who are able to receive meals right now. Somebody who has turned family meal sharing off simply is not there. You are not told why anybody is missing, and neither are they. == Turning it off == See [[family-meal-sharing-on-or-off|Turning family meal sharing on or off]]. == See also == * [[logging-a-meal-your-family-shared|Logging a meal your family shared]] * [[family-group-what-is-shared|What a family group shares, and what it never shares]] * [[family-group-shared-pantry|The shared family pantry]] * [[meal-history|Meal history]]
