How big is a serving?

koda_102

Hey! Tonight I made a homemade soup and I always make a new recipe and manually add all of the ingredients. It says at the beginning to name the recipe and how many does it feed? When I have a bowl of soup, it consists of two cups. So the soup I made tonight could have fed 12 people. It said something like 250 calories per serving, but what is a serving? One cup? Two cups? I just don't want to think I am eating a 250 calorie serving when I am really eating double. Because technically my serving is two cups, but does MFP know that? Am I making sense?

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sky_northern

So you put 12 as the number of servings? So it's the total amount of soup the recipes made divided by 12. If you determined the 12 based on 2 cup servings than 2 cups is a serving. (24 cups of soup in total.)

PaulaWallaDingDong

A serving is whatever you want it to be. It's your recipe. Tell the recipe builder how many servings your recipe provides. It will divide the recipe by that number and give you the information. If you made 24 cups and a serving is 2 cups, put in 12 servings and there ya go.

koda_102

That is what I assumed, but now I am lying in bed worrying and second guessing myself. Thanks!

BusyRaeNOTBusty

If you said it feeds 12, then one serving is 1/12th of the total recipe. Theoretically you could weigh the entire recipe in grams and then divide that by 12, and that's the weight of each serving. If you don't have a food scale (or are too lazy, which is where I usually fit) you just guess.

mgookin

What I like to do is weight the soup bowl after its done cooking, and the measurement in grams is what I put for the amount of servings. (That way it registers it per gram servings)

Then I put what I want in a separate bowl and measure that and put that as my serving size.