How to track calories if you made a large dinner but only ate a serving

sonia_lenar

Hi everyone! I'm new to MyFitnessPal and I was curious as to how you can track calories if you make a large dinner for a family but only eat your portion. For example I made a zucchini soup the other night which called for 2 large zucchinis, a can of light coconut milk, 4 cups of broth, 2 medium potatoes, 2 onions, a tablespoon of curry powder, and a 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric but I only ate a bowl for dinner. How do I log that into my tracker? Is there some way to add a full meal and then put in how much you ate?

Afitbeginning

I divide it into servings. So if I make a meal to serve four, I'll divide the calories on the ingredients by four and use that as my guide. I'm not sure if that's how others do it, I suppose you could add up how many calories the whole meal came too and then divide that by four as well.

Good luck! x

deannalfisher

you can use the recipe builder on MFP - input all the ingredients and have it calculator the calories

if you do this - my recommendation is to weigh the overall final product and set the number of servings to either g/oz of the final weight (so if its 20oz, then log the recipe as 20 servings) - then 1 serving is an oz and you can easily add to your diary

Ready2Rock206

The recipe builder is a great tool. If you're doing any of your own cooking you really should be using it. It can be a little tricky at first but once you use it a couple times it is really easy and helpful.

sonia_lenar

I figured out how to do it! Thank you all who helped! This is going to make life so much easier

lorrpb

Count all the calories as you add ingredients. Weigh the finished product (subtracting the weight of the pan). Set 1 serving = 1 gram. Weigh your own serving. Say it's 10 grams, you would enter 10 servings to get the right number of calories.