guestimating number of servings when creating

carafes

I have a hard time estimating how many servings will be in my recipe creation. I am measuring all ingredients I add but how can you know how many serving or the size of a serving? can anyone offer advise as to how to gauge how many servings it makes before hand

kristydi

I had a hard time with this too. Recently I started weighing the entire finished recipe then using the number of grams (or per 10 or 100 grams depending on how much the recipe makes) as the number of servings. Then I can weigh out what I want to eat and have any serving size that fits.

CyberTone

If it is a one-pot recipe, I also weigh the finished recipe, preferably when cooled, and use 230g as a serving size, since that is about one U.S. cup or about 8 oz. That way, if I don't have the time to weigh every serving, I can fill up one U.S. measuring cup and have at least a close estimate of a serving size.

tinascar2015

I weigh and record the ingredients as I make a recipe. Then I mess up another large pot or bowl by scooping it out of the original pot, and I count the number of cups. The size of the serving depends on what I am making. a serving of soup might be 2 cups, a serving of spaghetti sauce might be 1/2 cup. Divide the total # of cups in the batch by the serving size, and I get the number of servings. I don't weigh the individual servings because when I serve my meals, I use a 1-cup measure.

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kommodevaran

Servings and serving sizes are pretty meaningless. You should eat the amount you need and want, which will vary depending on your size, activity level, dietary needs, and what else you'll be eating that day. I do as kristydi, I learnt the trick here on the forum.

pmm3437

I measure total calories and macros for the complete batch, then try to sub divide so that the calories per serving are reasonable. This will depend on what your making ( entree, side, snack, etc ). If you need to be precise, then you can figure out the weights and measure after you know the portions ( IE 1/4th of the recipe, etc. )

I typically just eyeball it, since I'm cooking and eating for 1, and there's some built in inaccuracy because of distribution of ingredients within the combination. If a portion is a little bit over, the next will be a little bit short when i have it again in a couple days. It all works out in the end.

Dragn77

The serving sizes are not meaningless to me, because I like to be able to log how many calories I ate! So what I do is I measure everything as Im cooking for a total calorie count, then like others mentioned, I weigh the final meal.

Most of my recipes are for 4 servings...so using that as an example, I divide the total grams of the final meal by 4, to use as a guide for what the serving size is...one each for my daughter and I.

That way too, since I know that, for instance, a serving comes out to 300g but I end up eating only 200..or I want a bit more and it ends up being 400...because I know how many g are in a serving size, I can then log .7 or 1.3 respectively as my serving size, for a more accurate calorie count.

BTW...its steady on my to do list to weigh all my pots, pans and mixing bowls, that way I dont have to xfer my meal to a different container to tare and measure. Instead, Ill already know how much to deduct for the weight of the container I cooked it in. On my to do list LoL

tekkiechikk

"Most of my recipes are for 4 servings...so using that as an example, I divide the total grams of the final meal by 4, to use as a guide for what the serving size is...one each for my daughter and I."

Exactly how I do it and weighing portions is how I'm down 22 lbs. since mid-January. Keep at it! It might be a bit of a pain to go through all that, but worth it in the long run.

MrsDmacs

tinascar2015 wrote: »

I weigh and record the ingredients as I make a recipe. Then I mess up another large pot or bowl by scooping it out of the original pot, and I count the number of cups. The size of the serving depends on what I am making. a serving of soup might be 2 cups, a serving of spaghetti sauce might be 1/2 cup. Divide the total # of cups in the batch by the serving size, and I get the number of servings. I don't weigh the individual servings because when I serve my meals, I use a 1-cup measure.

DH and I use this method. It has worked well for us and has really opened our eyes to how much we were eating before we were measuring everything.