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Why: Bites give you a fast way to put a snack, drink, or supplement on a meal plan without writing a full recipe. This helps your members track their calorie intake more effectively.
Navigate: App Station > Content Library > Add Content > Bite
Quick Start
Open App Station and go to Content Library.
Click Add Content and choose Bite.
Fill in the Title and add a Photo.
Enter the Calories and any other nutrition values you want to track.
Set Tags and choose Visibility / Access Levels. Click Save.
What Are Bites?
Bites are lightweight content items designed for snacks, drinks, supplements, or anything with calories that members should track in their meal plans. They do not require a full recipe detail page, making them quick and easy to add. Bites appear alongside recipes in various places, such as the meal plan picker, member recipe library, search results, and content grids. Each Bite features a small neutral "Bite" label on member-facing cards, making them easy to distinguish from full recipes.
When to Use a Bite Instead of a Recipe
Use a Bite when you want to track simple items like a protein shake, a piece of fruit, or an energy bar. If you need a full detail page with ingredients, steps, ratings, and comments, then a Recipe is the better choice.
Creating a Bite
Creating a Bite is straightforward. Follow these steps:
Open App Station and navigate to Content Library.
Click Add Content and select Bite.
Fill in the Title for your Bite.
Add a Photo to represent the Bite.
Enter the Calories and any other nutrition values you want to track. You can leave any field blank; empty fields will not be displayed.
Set Tags to help organize your Bite.
Choose the Visibility / Access Levels for your 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. Any empty fields will be skipped on display. Bites contribute their calories to member calorie budgets and meal plan daily totals just like Recipes do.
Why Bites Have No Detail Page
Bites are intentionally designed to be 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 in a member-facing area, 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 tagging, media, visibility (Public / Members / Assigned), access levels, and favoriting features as Recipes. They also show up in bulk-edit selections in the Content Library.
What Is Not in V1
Currently, there is no bulk-add flow for Bites, no sample-content seeding, no public detail page, and no ratings.