It is free to sign up and use but some features are reserved for their premium subscription. MyFitnessPal is a website and app (available on both iOS and Android) that helps users track their diet and exercise. I tested it and when my wife scans my barcodes my custom foods pop up in her MFP diary.Learn more about our review scorecards as part of our editorial review guidelines. Now just save it to a document and scan it in MFP it will prompt you to create a new food. Once you have your bar code data there are numerous free websites that will generate an actual barcode for you. The last digit is a check digit that if you search online you can find a check digit calculator. The next 5 digits are a custom sequence number which can be anything you want it to be. However if you are never intending to sell your product you can come up with your own which I did and if you search online you can find a search engine that will tell you after you put in a particular UPC whether that is a live product or not. The next 5 digits are the manufacturer ID number. The first digit is a 0 which means that it's just a regular barcode. In case you are interested here is how I came up with mine.

Now when we have one of our custom meals/foods all she has to do is scan the barcode I generated and poof it's all there. After some research I have it working great. So my solution is to create custom barcodes for my foods. Then for my wife to enter it in herself she has to do a quick add or navigate to my data and select it.

One thing that annoys me sometimes is that it sometimes takes a long time to select one of my custom meals or recipes.

My fitness pal barcode scanner