Did I say that? No.

I also eat out some (their data base has a ton of common restaurants in it; so if I decide I'm going to get a sandwich or salad from Subway or Quiznos, no problem).

You can also create your own "meals" from more basic ingredients, altering the portions by grams, oz's, cups, etc.

But, I don't have to restrict myself to known foods (made from scratch, where I have had the time to enter in all of the details myself ; or at a listed restaurant). I can scan a bar code and have that food automatically, or I can enter new foods (and share the info with other users, growing the database) from just entering data from the food label (or from a restaurant that publishes their nutritional info). And, if I have a bar code for whatever food data I have just entered (depending on whether it's a recipe or a purchased food item), I can then scan the bar code and associate it with that data.

Like I said, 99% of it I can do without the bar code scanner, just using any random website. But, that 1% of bar code reading, turns out to be AMAZINGLY convenient. Amazingly convenient enough that it made a huge difference in how easy this diet is going (compared to other diets I've been on), and I'm unsure how much it will or wont matter as time moves forward.

However, we're going way off topic here :-}