Food scale and recipes

MsShawnieJ

I have a food scale and I use it religiously even when creating recipes. Let's say I made (from scratch) Mac and cheese and I want it to have 4 servings. How do I know how much is in a serving so that I can correctly track it AND to prevent myself from eating more than one? Sorry, I'm a newbie with the scale and I'm trying not to make the same mistakes before such as underestimating. Thanks in advance.

kommodevaran

If you want four servings, divide the whole thing in/by four? Weigh it and eat 1/4?

Evamutt

I'm no expert but I do put recipes I make into the recipe builder. If I were to make mac & cheese I would first weigh the dish I'm cooking it in, by grams & write it down. Next I would weigh/measure everything I put into my recipe & record it individually. Then to find out how many servings I want from it. I would weigh the whole thing in the dish I weighed earlier I'm going to cook it in. Subtract the weight of the dish from the whole weight to get the food weight without the dish. I weigh by grams. I eyeball it & decide how big one serving will be, say I think the whole thing would make 8 servings- I divide the grams of the food by 8 & it will give you how many grams in one serving . Maybe someone else can explain it more simply

DaintyWhisper

Here's what I usually do.. I put the weight of all of my ingredients into the recipe builder and let it calculate how many calories are in the whole thing. I put how many servings I want there to be. Then I weigh my entire dish of prepared food and divide it by the amount the servings I decided upon. Let's say your mac and cheese weighed 1200 grams. Don't include the pan/dish in the weight. Just the food! If you want there to be 4 servings, then each serving would be 300 grams. Sometimes I name my recipes with the weight included in the title. Like: Mac and Cheese (300g) That way I remember a couple days down the line.

ktekc

i just set the servings for how many grams it weighs.. then whatever i eat i weigh. so my serving is whatever i want not a set amount. say 300 grams for dinner one day and 150 grams for lunch the next day.

Emmygm

I do it two ways:

(1) Weigh the end result and list the portion as the number of grams. E.g. If I was making homemade mac and cheese and the end product weighed 325g, I would list it as 325 portions. When i ate the food, if I had 120g, that would mean that i list it in my diary as 120 portions.

(2) Still weigh the food, but calcualte it based on 100g portions. So in the example above I would list it as 3.25 portions instead of 325. 100 g portions. if I ate 120g, that would be 1.2 portions.