Serving size help....

anastasias30

Hi guys
I'm really confused on how to figure out calories when I'm cooking my own meals. When I create a recipe it asks me how many servings. How would I know how many servings. Please help !

seska422

The easiest thing to do is weight the finished product and then put the weight in as the number of servings. If the whole recipe weights 2137 grams, put 2137 servings.

That way, you can weigh out your portion and enter (for example) 155 grams as 155 servings.

jen_092

I don't use the recipe feature as much as I use the meal feature... When I cook a meal I add ingredients one by one after weighing or measuring them. If I know I'll eat that recipe again I save it as a meal, and adjust my measurements the next time I make it.

When I'm making a recipe from a website I will use the recipe feature and I just input the serving size from the recipe itself. Actually you can find the recipe online using my fitness pal and it'll import all the info for you.

jennybearlv

I usually weigh the completed recipe in grams and use that number as the serving size. Then I weigh out my portion and enter that as number of servings. Sometimes I use the number of items a recipe makes as the total number of servings, like when I make an 8 tortilla recipe.

anastasias30

Thank you so much everyone is so helpful ! I actually get it now.