How do you know counts for 'homemade' foods??

SergeantG

So I just ate a slice of homemade whole wheat bread.

But I have no idea what the actual counts of that item were.

SInce I've been using food items that I knew fairly accurately represented what was actually in them (solid quantitative lables and serving sizes)...so my question is, how do we calculate iin these instances...

FP4HSharon

Go to Food, then Recipes, then enter the ingredients for your recipe, It'll do it all for you & you can save it.

melaniecheeks

Pick something close from the database. Everything you record is an estimate anyway, even if it comes out of a packet.

smesche

Go to Food, then Recipes, then enter the ingredients for your recipe, It'll do it all for you & you can save it.

This is what I do. Every meal I make at home goes into the receipe database on MFP. That way I can have an accurate (well as accurate as can be expected) count of what I ate.

SergeantG

OHHHH!! That is really cool!!!

Thanks!! (I'm still learning this site)

Ready2Rock206

I LOVE the recipe tab. I even use it for things I often eat together that aren't truly a recipe - like my daily vitamins. So easy to edit too if you switch things up the next time you make it. I think it is a great tool.

Magdaloonie

The Recipe option is my BFF! We rarely go out and cook less and less packaged food all the time. For example, I have the per slice nutrition of 3 different pizza crusts and, separately, 4 of 5 different topping combinations. The way I usually make my turkey tacos is a recipe. I also confirmed that my Thai coconut curry soup with shrimp & chicken was orders of magnitude healthier than one could buy! I put in the recipes and my husband goes to my diary and copies my meals to his.

ShannonMpls

Pick something close from the database. Everything you record is an estimate anyway, even if it comes out of a packet.

Yep.

When I make a recipe for dinner or whatever, which is basically every day, I'll create a recipe here and input my ingredients. For my homemade honey wheat bread, I just find someone else's homemade honey wheat in the database and log that.

bcattoes

If I made it I use the MFP recipe function to enter all ingredients, divide into servings and log that way. If someone else made it I either guesstimate using other recipes in the database or just skip logging it, depending on my mood at the time.