Adding food from cook book

I am having a problem with the Diet Calendar. I have an unshared recipe in my cookbook for the tuna salad I make. I am trying to add a serving to my Diet Calendar for two days ago, but the only options are Tomorrow, Today, Yesterday, or a week ago. I can't search for the food since it is a recipe particular to my profile. I really wish I could click a food link and add the food for any day of my Diet Calendar instead of being limited in my choices. Anyone know of a work-around?

You can add it to a meal today (or tomorrow or whatever) then make that a favorite meal. Once you've done that, delete it from your diet calendar and then enter the favorite meal on the correct day.

I *think* that will work.

I just tried it... that will work. It's annoying, though.

Yes, that is what I do with a few of my meals, and other hard to find foods in the DB. It is clunky, and I still dont understand how the saved meals get chosen to show up on my "Top 3."