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Why: Bites provide a quick and easy way to add snacks, drinks, or supplements to your meal plans without the need for a full recipe. This helps your members track their calorie intake more effectively and enhances their overall experience.
Navigate: App Station > Content Library > Add Content > Bite
Quick Start
Open App Station and go to Content Library.
Click Add Content.
Choose Bite from the options.
Fill in the title and add a photo.
Enter the calorie count and any other nutrition values you want to track.
Set tags and choose visibility/access levels, then click Save.
What Are Bites?
Bites are lightweight content items that include snacks, drinks, supplements, or anything with calories. They are designed to be added to meal plans or counted toward calorie budgets but do not require a full recipe detail page.
Bites appear alongside recipes in various places, such as the meal plan picker, member recipe library, search results, and content grids. Each Bite is labeled with a small neutral "Bite" badge on member-facing cards, making them easy to distinguish from full recipes.
When to Use a Bite Instead of a Recipe
Use Bites for items like:
Protein shakes
Pieces of fruit
Energy bars
Supplements
Opt for a full recipe when you want to provide detailed information, including ingredients, steps, ratings, and comments.
Creating a Bite
To create a Bite, follow these steps:
Open App Station and navigate to Content Library.
Click Add Content and select Bite.
Fill in the title and upload a photo.
Enter the calorie count and any additional nutrition values you want to track. You can leave fields blank; they won't be displayed.
Set tags and choose the visibility/access levels for the Bite.
Click Save. The Bite will be immediately available in the meal plan picker.
Nutrition for Bites
The Nutrition tab for Bites uses the same override editor as the recipe Nutrition tab. You can fill in just the calories, or include calories along with protein and other macros. Empty fields will be skipped in the display.
Bite calories are counted in member calorie budgets and meal plan daily totals just like a recipe, ensuring accurate tracking for your members.
Why Bites Have No Detail Page
Bites are intentionally lightweight. They do not have a public URL, PDF export, member ratings, comments, or a story tab. If a member or admin clicks on a Bite card, nothing happens — the card serves as informational only.
In the admin Content Library, clicking a Bite row takes you directly to the full Bite editor instead of opening a quick-view drawer.
Why Bites Still Appear in the Recipe Library
Although Bites are marked as meal-plan-only, they are an exception and always appear alongside recipes in member-facing recipe libraries, search results, and content grids. However, Bites are excluded from the marketing recipe collage on public pages.
Tags, Media, Visibility, and Favorites
Bites support the same tags, media, visibility options (Public / Members / Assigned), access levels, and favoriting features as recipes. They can also be included in bulk-edit selections in the Content Library.
Members Adding Their Own Bites
Admins can allow members to create their own Bites. If enabled, members will see My {Bites} and Create new {Bite} as text links in the Add Meal picker for that section. Names for Bites must be unique per member, and if a member tries to create a Bite with a matching name, the existing Bite will be reused.
The member-facing copy uses the Bite labels configured in App Station under App Settings > Labels (default is Bite / Bites).
What Is Not in V1
Currently, the Bite feature does not include:
Bulk-add flow
Sample content seeding
Public detail pages
Ratings
For more detailed information on Bites, check out the Bite Content Type article.