Using Recipe Builder

Leanqueen01

I want to input a brown rice recipe into the builder. Will it be okay to input the uncooked weight and calories of the rice e.g. 100 grams - 342 calories? I wont able to weigh the rice once its cooked because i will be adding veggies etc

kommodevaran

Yes, it's always best, whenever possible, to weigh food before cooking.

Nancyannjurczak

im new to my fitness pal and I would like to know how do you use the recipe builder thank you or if you could direct me where their is a getting started group thanks for your help

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1469295-how-does-the-recipe-importer-on-the-website-work-

Here you go

kuranda10

mazjubean wrote: »

I want to input a brown rice recipe into the builder. Will it be okay to input the uncooked weight and calories of the rice e.g. 100 grams - 342 calories? I wont able to weigh the rice once its cooked because i will be adding veggies etc

For "combo dishes, like stew, soups, fried rice etc What I do is
enter all the ingredients,raw weight.
Cook it
Weigh the whole finished product, so say 750g.
Then I enter 750 for the number of servings
When I serve it, I just weigh the portion I'm having and enter that for the "amount" so it would say somehting like 132 servings

GsKiki

Always weight your food before processing it. The calories you get will be more precise.

cryptobrit

mazjubean: Would this work for anything? I have inputted a sourdough bread recipe and guessed a loaf would be 8 portions based on 8 medium-ish slices, and allowing for end bits etc. I was horrified to find that 1 portion/slice was 168 calories. I find this hard to believe. Short of physically cutting all the slices and matching the end bits up, I am not sure what to do other than base the whole lot - maybe weigh it? and then do what I do now, weigh a slice.

seska422

cryptobrit wrote: »

mazjubean: Would this work for anything? I have inputted a sourdough bread recipe and guessed a loaf would be 8 portions based on 8 medium-ish slices, and allowing for end bits etc. I was horrified to find that 1 portion/slice was 168 calories. I find this hard to believe. Short of physically cutting all the slices and matching the end bits up, I am not sure what to do other than base the whole lot - maybe weigh it? and then do what I do now, weigh a slice.

Weigh and measure everything as it goes into the recipe to get the overall nutrition and calories. You might have 750 grams worth of ingredients go into the recipe. Some water will cook/bake out (or may even be absorbed depending upon what you are cooking) so don't use the ingredient weight total when you calculate the calories per serving.

Once it's done cooking or baking, weigh the final result. The final result might weigh 625 grams.

The easiest thing to do is to say that your recipe has 1 serving per gram, which is in this example 625 servings. You can then weigh your bread slice and, if it weighs 81 grams, enter that as 81 servings.