'foods' lists. There is a delete button on page one, but no way to delete anything on any more pages. I have nearly 5 pages of foods I'd love to have a spring-clean of....anyone out there know how????

Would love to know too! 6 mths in and have no clue.

Currently, there is not an easy way to delete frequently used foods. The system was designed to add to and remove items from your lists automatically. We are looking into other future possibilities. For now, you can delete some of those items from your frequently used foods list on our website, but only from the first page. Just go to our website at http://www.myfitnesspal.com. Sign into the members log in area using the same username and password as you do with the app.

Once you've logged in, go to the "Food" tab, then click "Add Food" under the meal whose frequently used foods list you'd like to edit. The list of your most frequently used foods for that meal should appear - check the items you'd like to delete, then click the "Delete from list" button at the bottom of the page. Please note, you can only delete from the first page.

More options may be available on that first page, if you change the way the page is viewed. If you like, you can change the site's behavior from showing favorites for only the current meal, to showing favorites that have been saved for any meal.

When you have reached the point in adding a food that you see the row of tabs for Most Used, Recent, etc., look for the sentence that says: "Or, add your favorites for" and then shows the name of the current meal in BLUE, followed by a triangle. The triangle is meant to suggest the presence of other options. If you click the name of the meal, you will also get the option of showing favorites for "All Meals."

Make this choice, and your lists will no longer be meal-specific.

Please also note that when you "delete from list" an item on your Most Used list, you are actually "blacklisting" the item from appearing on the list again. So, it's not a temporary deletion, it's a permanent ban on that food returning to your "most used" list. Users, for instance, who have made a radical change in their eating habits will use this to get the junk food off their list.

If you would like to allow some or all of these items to return to your most used list, hit the "View Deleted Items" button at the bottom of the list. You can place a check next to any foods in the deleted list and then "restore" them to the pool of foods available to accumulate in your Most Used list.

As a web designer, I must say that the MyFitnessPal website is frustrating and could be detrimental to one's diet.

The site is missing 2 significant functions which would make it much faster to use and more useful. And these changes could easily be made by any web professional.

1. There's no way to search the foods one has already entered.
2. There is no way to delete foods other than those on the "Frequently Used" list.

This means that we spend a lot more time searching the very long food database, than we would if we simply searched the foods we've already entered. It's very irritating to spend so much unnecessary time with this program - in fact I'd say the frustration caused is detrimental to any diet

I really like myfitnesspal but I'm getting ready to leave as I want to delete food items and it is so very difficult. You add a one time food and it's there forever! This is a cool tool but when you have to weed through so many foods that aren't being used anymore it is very cumbersome. This seems like it would be very easy to remedy.

I can't agree more with the sentiment that not being able to delete foods is incredibly frustrating.

And the fact that foods deleted from the "most used" list are "blacklisted"?

I can't believe that the site was intentionally designed to work this way.

What possible rationale can there be for this?

It just boggles my mind.

This could be such a neat website! Please fix this!

I also hope that there is a way soon to make this easier. I have so many things listed I only used once or twice, yet I can't get rid of them. i end up starting over with new searches and that just adds to the problem.

But I still love MFP and appreciate all the help it has been to me! ;)

Well I must agree with the sentiment on this page. It seems to me that the authors of this program just don't care. If they do care, they just don't know.

After reading this page I give up. This site is just too unwieldy and annoying. Since nothing is going to happen I am leaving. As much "work" as I have put into this site, it is not worth the trouble.

Moderator -you do know the the function that you say the site should have with adding the most used food items to the frequently used page and then removing or moving the items down the list that isn't being used automatically does not work?!

The items that I use every day I most often have to go to page 2 or any other after that to find, only 2 of the items that I used every day is on page 1, the rest of the items on page 1 I have only used once -that means 1 time and they are apparently locked at the top of page 1 on the frequently used page!!!

I agree with the requests that have been made on this topic, and the extra capabilities would be helpful. However, I am also grateful for the extensive functionality that already exists on a site for which we are asked to pay nothing, ever.

Just giving this a bump. Still love the site! ;-)

I agree completely with those of you who are calling out the lazy and unprofessional designers, programmers, and database developers who created this imperfect site. How dare they have the gall to give it away at absolutely no cost to the unsuspecting public!