Feature

Food Diary

A personal food & drink journal at /[handle]/food (shortcut /food when signed in). Separate from Finance — but prices can link to expense rows.

Meals, snacks & drinks

Everything you consume — breakfast, ramen, bubble tea, beer, wine. Alcohol is tracked here; sobriety streaks stay on Trackers.

Search, sort & views

Search by dish, place, or merchant. List view groups by year in chronological order (newest or oldest). Photo grid is 3 columns — tap a photo for an Instagram-style post (scroll through other meals).

Edit logs (owner)

Fix what, when, price, calories, place, or delete. Add or replace a photo when editing. Tap Log food for a manual entry with optional photo.

Who can see it

New entries are Private. In the edit dialog pick Friends only or Public; shared entries carry a badge in your own diary. Tap Select to change many at once (all, or a year), with Undo.

Your diaries

Home links Movies, TV, Dreams, and Food. Sidebar has Food → /[handle]/food.

Food Logged card

When Dayze Agent logs food in chat, you get a Food Logged card with thumbnail, price, and calorie estimate — diary refreshes live.

Dayze Agent + photos

Send a meal photo in chat — agent calls log_food with the dish details; photo and EXIF metadata attach automatically.

Ratings & favorite foods

These are two different ideas:

Rating (1–5 stars) — How good was this specific meal? Tap stars on a diary row or set them when editing. Dayze Agent passes rating on log_food when you say "that was a 5/5" or "amazing ramen".
Favorite foods — Dishes you love and want to log again (Nasi Lemak, bacon and eggs, your usual latte spot). Saved in user_favorite_foods, shown as chips on /food. Tap a chip to prefill Log food. Not the same as Inventory wishlist (things to buy).

Favorites API: /api/food/favorites.

Food diary vs shopping list

The Food Diary is a journal of what you ate or drank — with optional price, calories, place, and photos. It is not where you track ingredients you still need to buy.

If you want to cook bacon but need to buy it first, add bacon to your Inventory wishlist (category Other, tag groceries). After you buy and cook it, log Bacon and eggs here — or tell Dayze Agent "I had bacon for breakfast".

Calorie estimates

Calories show as ~650 kcal — rough estimates from the agent or heuristics, not medical nutrition. Entries with no dish-specific estimate show kcal unknown and are counted separately from the totals. You can override any row when editing.

Photos & when you ate

Each entry can have one photo stored in dayze-storage with optional metadata (dimensions, camera, capture time from EXIF or the file's last-modified date). Upload from the diary add form or edit modal, or send a food photo to Dayze Agent — log_food links it automatically.

When a photo is attached, consumed_at is set from the photo timestamp (EXIF first, then file date) so backdated camera-roll uploads land in the right place. The diary sorts strictly by consumed_at — list and photo grid, newest or oldest.

Photo grid: list/grid toggle on /[handle]/food — 3-column squares with 1px gaps; tap to open a scrollable post view (photo + details).

Calendar timeline

Each food log mirrors to /calendar as a lightweight event (external_source=user_food_log). Syncs on log_food, manual add, edit, delete, and photo upload. Filter Food on the calendar to see meals only. See Calendar docs.

Bring food notes from your calendar

Food-related calendar events (lunch with friends, dinner notes, etc.) can be moved into the Food Diary from Settings or with Dayze Agent help — ask "move my food events into the food diary."

Technical

Table: user_food_log. Agent tools: log_food (insert) and update_food (patch an owned food_id — e.g. add hot tea onto Salmon Bento). Navigation: open_app_page destination food_diary. UI event: DAYZE_FOOD_LOG_UPDATED_EVENT.