I made my own recipe, now serving?

viren19890

I made my own recipe, example corn 179 gram garlic 16 g , kidney beans 305, tofu 177g. I punched it all in, I got calories and all. Now all this cooked comes to 900 grams for instance. I will be eating this in 3 sittings.

Now how much is each serving? 300 gram? Is that right?

So lets say I'm only eating 300 grams of it, so I'll punch in that I'm eating 1 serving right?

If I were to cut it and put it in 9 boxes then I should mark the recipe as 9 servings and then each would be 100 grams?

Am I right?

seska422

The easiest thing to do is to put the cooked weight in as the number of servings. Another way is to divide the weight by 100 and put that in as the servings. You can then just weigh out how much you got and put that for how many servings you ate.

From your example, you could say that your recipe has 900 servings or 9 servings if you wanted to divide the grams by 100 for your servings. If you get out 283 grams of it to eat, that would be 283 or 2.83 servings. If you get out 98 grams to eat, that would be 98 or 0.98 servings.

viren19890

What I thought I'll do since I'll be packing my meals in Tupperware of some sort. I'll make 300 grams of serving in each container. So if I made a salad and the entire salad after being prepared comes out to 900, that means 3 servings of 300 each. So in the app everytime i eat out that container I'll write, "I ate one serving" so after building the original recipe, it asks for serving, I'll put down as "it serves 3 people" 900 divided by 3 = 300, ergo I'm eating 300 grams and it'll be calculated accordingly.

Is that okay?

OyGeeBiv

I use both methods, depending on what it is and how I'm storing my food. If I make a casserole and freeze several portions, I'll say it's (for example) 6 servings. Then I mark the container as "1 serving casserole, xyz calories". On the other hand, I made bean salad a few days ago, which will not be frozen. So I weighed the entire thing and called it that many servings (1 gram = 1 serving). That way, when I have "some" bean salad, I just weigh what's in my bowl and log it that way.

OP, if you're asking if your math is correct, I would say yes.

viren19890

Ok thanks a lot-

It was partially about math and partially about -if it was even right or not.

For me it's easier in containers and I'll know how much what is.

Thanks again

viren19890

sorry another question

Let's say I'm making brown rice-

Ingredients I'll add

1 cup rice - xxx calories
2 cup water
1 dash of salt

1 serving.

Now - after cooked, rice calories change- how do I take those into account?

So do I need to enter it as "cooked rice" ? or just "rice" is fine? Oh man I can't believe I still haven't learned all the steps to this.

Also what if I'm making sauteed vegetables? I used to enter raw green bell pepper, raw mushroom then 1 tsp oil , dash of salt. Was that wrong too?

They should really put a question mark or some other thing next to ingredients which will explain how they did their calculations.

seska422

viren19890 wrote: »

sorry another question

Let's say I'm making brown rice-

Ingredients I'll add

1 cup rice - xxx calories
2 cup water
1 dash of salt

1 serving.

Now - after cooked, rice calories change- how do I take those into account?

So do I need to enter it as "cooked rice" ? or just "rice" is fine? Oh man I can't believe I still haven't learned all the steps to this.

Also what if I'm making sauteed vegetables? I used to enter raw green bell pepper, raw mushroom then 1 tsp oil , dash of salt. Was that wrong too?

They should really put a question mark or some other thing next to ingredients which will explain how they did their calculations.

The rice calories didn't change. The weight and volume of the cooked rice are different because it's now rice plus water plus salt. What was one cup of raw rice for (let's say) 350 calories is now three cups of cooked rice for 350 calories. One cup of the cooked rice (which is 1/3 of the recipe so it's 1/3 of the original calories) will have about 117 calories.

For the sauteed vegetables, use the raw weights to get the overall calories. Once they are cooked, they will still have those original calorie amounts. However, you need to reweigh the cooked recipe if you want to split it into multiple portions so that you can figure out calories per portion. If it's just one portion, those raw calories are fine and you don't need to reweigh because you are eating the whole thing anyway. If they had 400 calories raw and weighed a total of 500 grams, they may weigh 300 grams after cooking. That 300 grams would still have the 400 calories.

OyGeeBiv

seska422 wrote: »

viren19890 wrote: »

sorry another question

Let's say I'm making brown rice-

Ingredients I'll add

1 cup rice - xxx calories
2 cup water
1 dash of salt

1 serving.

Now - after cooked, rice calories change- how do I take those into account?

So do I need to enter it as "cooked rice" ? or just "rice" is fine? Oh man I can't believe I still haven't learned all the steps to this.

Also what if I'm making sauteed vegetables? I used to enter raw green bell pepper, raw mushroom then 1 tsp oil , dash of salt. Was that wrong too?

They should really put a question mark or some other thing next to ingredients which will explain how they did their calculations.

The rice calories didn't change. The weight and volume of the cooked rice are different because it's now rice plus water plus salt. What was one cup of raw rice for (let's say) 350 calories is now three cups of cooked rice for 350 calories. One cup of the cooked rice (which is 1/3 of the recipe so it's 1/3 of the original calories) will have about 117 calories.

For the sauteed vegetables, use the raw weights to get the overall calories. Once they are cooked, they will still have those original calorie amounts. However, you need to reweigh the cooked recipe if you want to split it into multiple portions so that you can figure out calories per portion. If it's just one portion, those raw calories are fine and you don't need to reweigh because you are eating the whole thing anyway. If they had 400 calories raw and weighed a total of 500 grams, they may weigh 300 grams after cooking. That 300 grams would still have the 400 calories.

Exactly.

@viren19890 Keep coming back with your questions! They're good ones.

viren19890

seska422 wrote: »

viren19890 wrote: »

sorry another question

Let's say I'm making brown rice-

Ingredients I'll add

1 cup rice - xxx calories
2 cup water
1 dash of salt

1 serving.

Now - after cooked, rice calories change- how do I take those into account?

So do I need to enter it as "cooked rice" ? or just "rice" is fine? Oh man I can't believe I still haven't learned all the steps to this.

Also what if I'm making sauteed vegetables? I used to enter raw green bell pepper, raw mushroom then 1 tsp oil , dash of salt. Was that wrong too?

They should really put a question mark or some other thing next to ingredients which will explain how they did their calculations.

The rice calories didn't change. The weight and volume of the cooked rice are different because it's now rice plus water plus salt. What was one cup of raw rice for (let's say) 350 calories is now three cups of cooked rice for 350 calories. One cup of the cooked rice (which is 1/3 of the recipe so it's 1/3 of the original calories) will have about 117 calories.

For the sauteed vegetables, use the raw weights to get the overall calories. Once they are cooked, they will still have those original calorie amounts. However, you need to reweigh the cooked recipe if you want to split it into multiple portions so that you can figure out calories per portion. If it's just one portion, those raw calories are fine and you don't need to reweigh because you are eating the whole thing anyway. If they had 400 calories raw and weighed a total of 500 grams, they may weigh 300 grams after cooking. That 300 grams would still have the 400 calories.

Oh that makes sense and I feel dumb for asking that lol

Thanks a lot- if I had ever put in this much effort before I'd have a 24 pack abs -abs on my back too

viren19890

64crayons wrote: »

seska422 wrote: »

viren19890 wrote: »

sorry another question

Let's say I'm making brown rice-

Ingredients I'll add

1 cup rice - xxx calories
2 cup water
1 dash of salt

1 serving.

Now - after cooked, rice calories change- how do I take those into account?

So do I need to enter it as "cooked rice" ? or just "rice" is fine? Oh man I can't believe I still haven't learned all the steps to this.

Also what if I'm making sauteed vegetables? I used to enter raw green bell pepper, raw mushroom then 1 tsp oil , dash of salt. Was that wrong too?

They should really put a question mark or some other thing next to ingredients which will explain how they did their calculations.

The rice calories didn't change. The weight and volume of the cooked rice are different because it's now rice plus water plus salt. What was one cup of raw rice for (let's say) 350 calories is now three cups of cooked rice for 350 calories. One cup of the cooked rice (which is 1/3 of the recipe so it's 1/3 of the original calories) will have about 117 calories.

For the sauteed vegetables, use the raw weights to get the overall calories. Once they are cooked, they will still have those original calorie amounts. However, you need to reweigh the cooked recipe if you want to split it into multiple portions so that you can figure out calories per portion. If it's just one portion, those raw calories are fine and you don't need to reweigh because you are eating the whole thing anyway. If they had 400 calories raw and weighed a total of 500 grams, they may weigh 300 grams after cooking. That 300 grams would still have the 400 calories.

Exactly.

@viren19890 Keep coming back with your questions! They're good ones.

Lol thanks for answering.

Hopefully this is it and I can carry on. Sometimes understanding the app pops up new things in my head-this all helps understand the mechanism of cooking and the app

OyGeeBiv

I just wanted to come back and say *sometimes* when I make a recipe and I know I'm going to eat all of it in a day or two, I eyeball the portions. Let's say I make a casserole and it's 2 servings. Once it's cooked, I don't bother to re-weigh it and split it exactly in half. A few calories more one day and a few calories less the next day even out. And it saves me from washing a few dishes.

enterdanger

I'm so glad you asked these questions. I have a great scale I don't use often enough because of the cooked vs. uncooked weight and portion sizes. Most of the time I don't know how many servings something makes because I might be hungrier from one day to the next. Or because it's feeding my family and we all eat varying serving sizes.

Weighing the cooked, finished product in grams and putting it as that many servings now makes sense to me. This way, it won't matter. I'll just weigh my portion and get a decent answer.

Yes, I have been on here for like 3 years and never understood that before. I suck with numbers and logic.

viren19890

enterdanger wrote: »

I'm so glad you asked these questions. I have a great scale I don't use often enough because of the cooked vs. uncooked weight and portion sizes. Most of the time I don't know how many servings something makes because I might be hungrier from one day to the next. Or because it's feeding my family and we all eat varying serving sizes.

Weighing the cooked, finished product in grams and putting it as that many servings now makes sense to me. This way, it won't matter. I'll just weigh my portion and get a decent answer.

Yes, I have been on here for like 3 years and never understood that before. I suck with numbers and logic.

LOL glad to help you indirectly.

I live with family too and they eat similar but I make sure my portion is totally separate cuz to avoid pulling out a blackboard and doing math on it. I won't mind (that's why I asked these questions) but it's all about streamlining.

Even if my family wants to eat exact same food, whatever is made I make sure it's first divided in serving sizes which I know. Let's say I made 600 grams tofu cooked and three of us eating it, I'll take a plate and measure my serving and punch it in the app. So once I know how much and what is going in me, I am done.

So glad I was able to learn all this now than later.

Extremely helpful members here. Hugs to all female members and props to all male. LoL

Sued0nim

Store all recipes by weight so you always know 1 serving = 100g and can eat whatever quantity you want

rosebarnalice

I log and store all recipes using 100 grams as a "serving." I may actually 216 grams of chili for a meal (2.16 100 g servings) or 66 grams (.66 of a 100 g serving) of cornbread oyster dressing as a side.

It's just easier for me to remember and keep track that way.

OyGeeBiv

viren19890 wrote: »

...to avoid pulling out a blackboard and doing math on it

I actually use a whiteboard in my kitchen when I'm cooking. I'll write down exactly the weight of each ingredient as I measure it. When I'm all done, I take the whiteboard over to my laptop and enter the values, so my recipe equals what I actually used.

viren19890

64crayons wrote: »

viren19890 wrote: »

...to avoid pulling out a blackboard and doing math on it

I actually use a whiteboard in my kitchen when I'm cooking. I'll write down exactly the weight of each ingredient as I measure it. When I'm all done, I take the whiteboard over to my laptop and enter the values, so my recipe equals what I actually used.

lol I use a small notebook and write everything down on.

viren19890

HappyCampr1 wrote: »

viren19890 wrote: »

64crayons wrote: »

viren19890 wrote: »

...to avoid pulling out a blackboard and doing math on it

I actually use a whiteboard in my kitchen when I'm cooking. I'll write down exactly the weight of each ingredient as I measure it. When I'm all done, I take the whiteboard over to my laptop and enter the values, so my recipe equals what I actually used.

lol I use a small notebook and write everything down on.

You mean, like this one?

damn! similar ! other than mine closes from top to bottom. Your handwriting is far better than mine lol

viren19890

Ok riddle to solve.

I made red kidney bean curry. Entire dish was 2100 grams. I ate 190 gram so I divided 190 by 2100 and it gave me my serving size.

Now others ate out of it too but no one cared to measure cuz I'm the only one counting calories.

So everytime I eat from the left over I'll have to remeasure how much is left and how much I'm eating and then divide by the total that was left. Right?

Instead I tried to find a similar cooked dish in the database and added that as to my diary and put in the amount that I ate 190 grams. It came out to way more calories than I was getting for my own made recipe.

So how did I fix it? I just walked a lot to make sure I end the day in deficit lol

seska422

Your whole cooked dish weighed 2100 grams. Every time you get some out, it will still be a percentage of that 2100 grams. You only need to weigh your portion every time you get some more.

If you want to use fractions, your first portion was 190/2100 of the total recipe calories. Your second portion was XXX/2100 (the same total recipe weight) because the weight of the whole recipe didn't change just because some had been eaten.

Did you put the recipe into the recipe builder when you cooked it to get the overall calorie and nutritional information? You don't want to use someone else's similar dish because you have no idea what they actually put into the recipe. You want to use your recipe that you put into the recipe builder.

1. Put all of the ingredients and amounts into the recipe builder as you assemble the recipe or into your notebook and then copy them into the recipe builder.

2. Weigh the finished recipe after it's cooked and put that weight in as the number of 1 gram or 100 gram servings that the recipe has. Yours had 2100 grams so you edit the recipe to say that it has 2100 servings or 21 servings if you want to use 100 gram servings. I'll use the 100 gram servings in the following examples so your whole recipe had 21 servings.

3. You got out 190 grams the first time you ate out of it. You put that into your food diary as 1.9 servings of your recipe.

4. The next time you go get some you might get 210 grams for your portion. That would be 2.1 servings of your recipe.

5. The next time you might get 180 grams. That would be 1.8 servings of your recipe.

viren19890

Thanks for responses.

For example the brown rice I made today were 652gram total cooked weight. 100g per serving would mean 6.52 servings in total but app rounds it to 7 servings. (100 gram each - difference of 52 gram)

I like the method of 100 gram per serving-seems less complicated than mine- I guess that's why most of you use this.

I was getting confused as to -what if others eat out of the same pot I'm eating from-will it change the serving size hence having an affect on calories and so forth. Thanks for clearing that.

Red kidney bean was 2730 grams -I put it as 27 servings . So everytime I take something I will just concern myself with what I'm eating and log that.

Thanks again -hopefully this nails everything down for me.

Sued0nim

viren19890 wrote: »

Ok riddle to solve.

I made red kidney bean curry. Entire dish was 2100 grams. I ate 190 gram so I divided 190 by 2100 and it gave me my serving size.

Now others ate out of it too but no one cared to measure cuz I'm the only one counting calories.

So everytime I eat from the left over I'll have to remeasure how much is left and how much I'm eating and then divide by the total that was left. Right?

Instead I tried to find a similar cooked dish in the database and added that as to my diary and put in the amount that I ate 190 grams. It came out to way more calories than I was getting for my own made recipe.

So how did I fix it? I just walked a lot to make sure I end the day in deficit lol

I don't understand the issue

This is what the recipe builder is for

Enter ingredients by weight

Set your recipe as 21 servings so each serving = 100g

Log 1.9 servings from your "my recipes" tab

And repeat

Sued0nim

viren19890

Ok there is an issue- the calories do change after cooked or uncooked along with volume.

For example Cooked brown rice 100 grams is 111 calories and uncooked brown rice is 362 calories.
I thought per 100 grams it'll stay the same but it doesn't.

I'm so grateful that so far I was able to find exact description and add them as is-otherwise I would've overeating without even knowing about it.

Now I'll be even more careful with my veggies as to put them in as raw instead of cooked