Determining serving sizes/calories in a recipe?

sarahtaylor58
sarahtaylor58 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 25 in Food and Nutrition
What's the best way to figure out serving size/calories in a recipe or something homemade? I'm sort of struggling with cooking vs prepackaged foods because I'm not sure how much I should be eating.

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Enter it in the recipe builder. If you have a food sale, weigh it and set the number of grams as the number of servings. So if you eat 250 grams worth you would enter 250 servings.
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    How much you eat of something (your portion) depends upon how much you want right then and how many calories you want to use for it. That's true with both cooking and prepackaged foods. Serving size on prepackaged food is just a suggestion.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    Enter it in the recipe builder. If you have a food sale, weigh it and set the number of grams as the number of servings. So if you eat 250 grams worth you would enter 250 servings.

    I do it this way sometimes myself, but most of the time I prefer to set a more "real-world" serving size, in part because I like seeing meaningful numbers for nutrients in the recipe's "per serving" info. To do this, divide the total grams of the finished recipe by the number of grams you want in a serving. The result is the number of servings, which you plug into the appropriate spot in the recipe. When I do this, I always add the number of grams in a serving to the recipe name, e.g., I name it "Apricot Almond Bread (srvg = 37 g).

    This is a handy calculator for plugging the total grams in to get all the pairs of numbers that you can use for number of servings and serving size so that you account exactly for all the grams in the recipe.
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