How to enter a custom dish?

bob_hatcher
bob_hatcher Posts: 6 Member
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New to MFP so please be gentle.

My wife made a delicious soup the other day and we ate about a half of it. How do I create a meal from this and then tell it I consumed 1/3 of it? Do I enter each foot first (1 can, Campbells cream of chicken soup) and then combine them?

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Recipe Builder.
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    Usually I log all the ingredients separately into my diary as a whole and then once I see the total calories it is, I divide that by how many calories I want that meal to be.

    So when I made my chicken soup, I weighed all my meat and veggies, logged them, logged the stock mix as well, and decided each serving was going to be x number of calories, in my case, around 500 per bowl was what it worked out to, and when I divided the total by 500 it gave me 6 servings, so I knew how many containers to portion out and put in the fridge

    Then I just create a food.. but dont make it public and log that, along with any other macros I may be interested in tracking.

    I never really liked the recipe builder on this app but you can also try that and see if you like it

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