How to change quantity of food?

lexijensen296
lexijensen296 Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm new to myfitnesspal, and I'm trying to log my breakfast. except when I look up a food, it only gives me one serving option, which is the serving size. I can't adjust the serving according to what I actually consumed. so if the serving size is 1/2 cup which comes up in the results, but I really had 1/4 cup, how can I change that so my calories are counted correctly? thanks in advance

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,415 Member
    Enter 0.5 into the portion box.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    You can log .5 of a serving or you can find an entry that allows you to more accurately capture what you ate.
  • lexijensen296
    lexijensen296 Posts: 2 Member
    what if I need to log something in between, like 1/3, 3/4 or 2/3?
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    lexijensen296 wrote: »
    what if I need to log something in between, like 1/3, 3/4 or 2/3?

    The most accurate way to log your food will be to find an entry that lists the weight and then log the exact weight of what you ate. I look for entries that have 100 grams as an option in the drop-down, which makes it easy to enter the exact amount of grams that I ate.

    If you prefer to log things by servings, you'll just have to figure out how to become adept with the fractions.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Assuming no glitches, every entry that MFP pulled from the USDA database should have an option in grams, allowing you to weigh the food and log accordingly, as stated above.

    Unfortunately, the "verified" green check marks in the MFP database are used for both user-created entries with sufficient upvotes and admin-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database (no upvotes needed). To find admin entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.

    Note: any MFP entry that includes "USDA" was user entered.

    For packaged foods, I verify the label against what I find in MFP. (Alas, you cannot just scan with your phone and assume what you get is correct.)
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    glassyo wrote: »
    .33 is 1/3, .75 is 3/4, .66 is 2/3.

    Someone else will come along to tell you how to show your work. :)

    Or find an option that uses grams, weigh the food, log accordingly.

    I have a fraction-to-decimal cheat sheet taped to the side of my monitor from my old food scale which displayed parts of ounces in fractions.
  • minnesotapats
    minnesotapats Posts: 1 Member
    I'm new to MFP and having the same issue. All good answers, but it seems really clunky to have to get a scale or use a cheat sheet just to log 1/3 cup of oatmeal. Any MFP folks reading this and willing to fix it? Why make the basic action of logging food so discouraging?
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    How do you think MFP should fix it? Allow you to log in fractions?
  • NYPhotographer2021
    NYPhotographer2021 Posts: 510 Member
    The data base of food is all user generated. If you are unable to find an entry that fits, then create your own. I do that all the time because I find a lot of entries to be wrong.
  • Redordeadhead
    Redordeadhead Posts: 1,188 Member
    minnesotapats wrote: »
    I'm new to MFP and having the same issue. All good answers, but it seems really clunky to have to get a scale or use a cheat sheet just to log 1/3 cup of oatmeal. Any MFP folks reading this and willing to fix it? Why make the basic action of logging food so discouraging?

    Entering 0.33 servings is not very clunky.
  • staceywidlund
    staceywidlund Posts: 2 Member
    What do you do if the measurements say fl. oz. when its not a liquid? The measurements are not grams, oz, tablespoons, etc.
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    staceywidlund wrote: »
    What do you do if the measurements say fl. oz. when its not a liquid? The measurements are not grams, oz, tablespoons, etc.

    Find another entry.
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    How do you think MFP should fix it? Allow you to log in fractions?

    You used to be able to do this in the app, actually. I don't know if they removed it or buried the option to change it deep in settings somewhere.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    goal06082021 wrote: »
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    How do you think MFP should fix it? Allow you to log in fractions?

    You used to be able to do this in the app, actually. I don't know if they removed it or buried the option to change it deep in settings somewhere.

    Interesting, I never noticed.

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