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Repeat: Re-log Meals You've Already Had

Skip the typing. Re-log a meal you've already tracked in one tap, or pick several at once.

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Written by Patrick McCarthy

Eat the same lunch most weekdays? Living off leftovers? Repeat lets you re-log a meal you've already tracked in a single tap. No retyping, no re-photographing. Hoot pulls everything from the original log (foods, photos, calories, macros) and adds it to your day.

Repeat is free for every Hoot user. No subscription needed.


Where to Find It

Tap the + button on your dashboard to open the log picker. You'll see four logging options:

  • Photo: snap or upload

  • Text or voice: type or speak it

  • Repeat: re-log a meal you've had before

  • Favorites: your saved go-tos

Tap the circular arrow icon to open Repeat.


How It Works

  1. Tap the Repeat icon

  2. Scroll your recent meals, sorted newest first, or use Search recent to jump to a specific one

  3. Tap a meal to select it. Tap as many as you want.

  4. Hit Add logs at the bottom

Each selected meal gets re-logged for today. The meal type (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack) is set automatically based on the time you re-log, so a meal you originally had for lunch yesterday might be re-logged as dinner if you tap Repeat at 7pm tonight. Need it to be something different? Quick Adjust handles it.


Repeat Shines When You:

  • Are eating leftovers from yesterday

  • Meal prep and have the same lunch all week

  • Order the same coffee or smoothie most mornings

  • Have a breakfast routine you don't think about

  • Want to copy a whole day of meals from earlier in the week

Because you can pick multiple meals at once, Repeat is especially handy for meal preppers and creatures of habit. Re-log Monday's full day on Tuesday morning if your week looks the same.


Repeat vs. Favorites

Both let you reuse meals, but they work differently.

Repeat is automatic. Every meal you log shows up here, organized chronologically with the most recent on top. Nothing to set up.

Favorites are curated. You explicitly star the meals you want to keep around forever: your morning smoothie, your go-to protein bowl, your kid-friendly dinner. Tap the star icon on any log to save it as a Favorite.

The short version: Repeat is for meals you ate recently. Favorites are for meals you eat all the time.


Need to Tweak Something After You Repeat?

After re-logging, tap the meal and use Quick Adjust to change anything: portion size, ingredients, the meal type, or the date. Repeating a Lunch as a Snack? One sentence and you're done.


The Bottom Line

The fastest log is the one you've already done. Repeat takes meals you've tracked before and puts them one tap away, solo or in batches.

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