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When the meal enquiry button is touched, it will initially display the most recent meals, ordered on the current time of the day. (Breakfast Lunch or Dinner).
If any of the meals displayed are similar to the one about to be eaten, the quickest way to enter the details would be to select the similar meal by touching it and modify as required.
If there are no similar meals then create it from scratch by touching the Add Meal button. This will introduce the Food List screen.
Food List
This screen initially holds a very basic list of meal items which contain carbohydrate. This list should be appended with the users personal choice of food items.
These could be raw produce like those in the default list but should also include the branded foods which are purchased. It should also include personalized items such as home made food or, or a dish at a favorite restaurant.
e.g. Mums apple pie or Luigi’s Lasagna.
Although it may not be possible to attain the exact carbohydrate content of a meal prepared by someone else; personal recipes tend to remain constant, so a historic view of past experiences becomes valuble.
New Food
To add a new item to the Food List, touch the New Food button. Then touch the empty field and the keyboard will be presented.
Enter the Food item description and hit return.
If this is correct, touch the Add button to include the Food Item to your Food List.
Items in the food list can be removed at any time by touching the delete button next to it.
 Creating a Meal
From the food list select the meal item with the highest carbohydrate first by touching it. This will introduce the Quantity screen with a description of the food at the top.
Use the clicker wheel to describe the quantity of the meal item. This could be numeric (between 1- 6) or a portion assessment. Touch Add to include in the meal
This assessment is your own and is fundamental to the philosophy of eater meter. If you consider the portion to be small, then it should be recorded as such. Providing you always judge that amount to be small and you are unlikely to eat a smaller portion, then the assessment is fair.
Select the quantity using the clicker meal and touch Add and the entry will be added to the meal. Touch Remove and the item will be removed from the meal.
 Further items should be added to the Meal by touching the More button and selecting from the Foodlist.
Once all the meal items with carbohydrate have been entered they should be sorted (using the arrow buttons) in terms of their carbohydrate content. The item with the highest carbohydrate content first in the list.
When the meal is complete, touch the Done button. This will then reintroduce the Meal Enquiry screen with the meals now ordered by their relevance to that which was entered. This should allow the user to see how much insulin has been taken for similar meals, colour coded by appropriateness.
Hypos entered on the day of the meal and any exercise undertaken are displayed to the right had side of the screen. The date is also provided. These factors should all be considered in the assessment of an insulin dose.
You should always make a judgement of the amount of insulin to take, based on your own knowledge of the carbohydrate content of a meal. However, if you enter the details into Eater Meter the next time you eat a similar meal, it will be from a more confident position of tangible experience.
Meal Amendments
Once a meal has been entered; Eater Meal will assume it was the meal eaten. To override a meal, simply enter new meal details within 90 minutes.
Top-Ups
If a top up dose of insulin is taken then the meal will need to be re-entered.
For example, if a meal is eaten that contains pasta and fruit. This should be entered into Eater Meter before the injection is carried out. However, if after this, some ice cream is also eaten, the user may wish to take some additional insulin. In this case the pasta and fruit meal should be selected, amended to include the ice-cream and the details re-entered with the insulin dose being the total amount taken (original, plus top up)
Tips: To facilitate a fast meal entry, only enter food items with contain carbohydrate. Any items which are obligatory to the meal (such as milk is to breakfast cereal) could be ignored from the description if they will always be present in every occurance of that meal.
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