What's on your mind today?

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  • MaltedTea
    MaltedTea Posts: 6,286 Member
    Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »
    @KCJen I've used the recipe tracker in MFP before. It worked well for me. I used it for a Red Velvet Cheesecake recipe that my bestie was making for me for my birthday a few years ago. We put everything into MFP (total ingredients) and then how many servings WE were going to cut the cheesecake into. It ended up being like 1200-some calories per slice! It was an eye opener!

    ^^ Ditto. The built-in recipe tracker is easier to use than it looks. I also like the ability to adjust serving sizes (even once the recipe is logged since you can have, like "0.25 of a serving")
    matltedtea, gina and suziq - Thanks for those prayers ladies! I am waiting for more test results - get them back late afternoon on Monday. Testing for something scary...but ruled out a couple of others. So...I sincerely appreciate the prayers.

    kk! You're still on my mind!
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,153 Member
    Homemade meals:
    These can be entered in the recipe section. Click onto <More> and choose recipes. I have most of my meals recorded. Just be careful of portion control.

    You can do either batched cooked recipes or single servings.

    If you have a recipe recorded you just need to enter the name and MFP does the rest.
  • GigiDoma
    GigiDoma Posts: 445 Member
    @dsgoingtodoit I will keep them coming!
  • KCJen
    KCJen Posts: 1,089 Member
    Thanks everyone! and you're in my prayers @dsgoingtodoit
  • KCJen
    KCJen Posts: 1,089 Member
    edited October 2020
    Oooh, I can import recipes from Better Homes and Gardens website into MFP recipe section. I will definitely learn how to use this over the next couple of days. I love BH&G!! I have 11 Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks. Love the big Red Plaid <3

    This is a favorite for my son and I and I just added https://www.bhg.com/recipe/beef/spicy-beef-noodle-bowl/ Adding it was very easy, and I think I can go in and adjust calories and brands. This is so exciting!!
  • KCJen
    KCJen Posts: 1,089 Member
    Homemade meals:
    These can be entered in the recipe section. Click onto <More> and choose recipes. I have most of my meals recorded. Just be careful of portion control.

    You can do either batched cooked recipes or single servings.

    If you have a recipe recorded you just need to enter the name and MFP does the rest.

    Thanks @TerriRichardson112 Terri, I don't know if I have ever told you, but you have always been very helpful to me in the UAC. I am glad you are a part of this group!
  • Mrs_Hoffer
    Mrs_Hoffer Posts: 5,194 Member
    KCJen wrote: »
    Oooh, I can import recipes from Better Homes and Gardens website into MFP recipe section. I will definitely learn how to use this over the next couple of days. I love BH&G!! I have 11 Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks. Love the big Red Plaid <3

    Oh this brings back memories! My mother had that cookbook and LOVED it! She used it so much it was falling apart! She passed in 2017 and tragically, 3 months after her death her house burned down...... so I was unable to get my hands on that cookbook! But thanks @KCJen for the memories!! <3
  • KCJen
    KCJen Posts: 1,089 Member
    Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »
    KCJen wrote: »
    Oooh, I can import recipes from Better Homes and Gardens website into MFP recipe section. I will definitely learn how to use this over the next couple of days. I love BH&G!! I have 11 Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks. Love the big Red Plaid <3

    Oh this brings back memories! My mother had that cookbook and LOVED it! She used it so much it was falling apart! She passed in 2017 and tragically, 3 months after her death her house burned down...... so I was unable to get my hands on that cookbook! But thanks @KCJen for the memories!! <3

    @Mrs_Hoffer I am so sorry to hear that about your Mom.

    My mom has a 1953 Red Plaid that I just adore looking thru. It has pages stuck together and brings back memories for me as well. This past Christmas I bought her the latest edition of Better Homes & Gardens cookbook, along with the Cooking for Two cookbook from America's Test Kitchen (to help with just cooking for her and Dad). I love Better Homes and Gardens, it all started with my Granny using BH&G, then my Mom, and now me. And I use it to teach my son how to cook as well :)
  • KCJen
    KCJen Posts: 1,089 Member
    edited October 2020
    MFP Recipe Maker Question:

    I have imported 2 recipes into the recipe maker, but I was trying to figure out how to make my own recipe. I don't see where I can enter my own foods I have listed for tracking. (It does match to MFP general food database, but I would like to match to the foods I have added personally) I also don't see where I can edit the matched foods the recipe maker automatically matched. Can it be edited? I just found the manually enter recipes, so that might be my option if the imported recipes can't be edited and calories adjusted.

    Update: Sometimes in life, you have to ask the question so you can find the answer! I did more research after posting this question and found my answer. MFP will not let me use my saved foods in the recipes, but I can search the MFP database which will pull my "saved foods" as well. Also learned that if I use the app to create the recipes, I can use the barcode scanner. Not sure how that works tho. I will learn as I go :)
  • MaltedTea
    MaltedTea Posts: 6,286 Member
    KCJen wrote: »
    MFP Recipe Maker Question:

    I have imported 2 recipes into the recipe maker, but I was trying to figure out how to make my own recipe. I don't see where I can enter my own foods I have listed for tracking. (It does match to MFP general food database, but I would like to match to the foods I have added personally) I also don't see where I can edit the matched foods the recipe maker automatically matched. Can it be edited? I just found the manually enter recipes, so that might be my option if the imported recipes can't be edited and calories adjusted.

    FWIW, I ONLY use the manual function to add my recipes even if I'm using a recipe I found online or from a cookbook.

    Why? I'm forever subbing ingredients 🤷🏿‍♀️

    And, yes, you can search the MFP database in order to get the right match for your foods... including editing the quantities. Glad you figured it out.
  • KCJen
    KCJen Posts: 1,089 Member
    @MaltedTea Thanks! I think I will be manually entering everything myself as well.

    @BMcC9 Thanks for the number of servings. I have not heard of that. Might have to try that after I get back into the habit of tracking and weighing everything. Baby steps for me. One step at a time :)
  • KCJen
    KCJen Posts: 1,089 Member
    BMI Reality Check - that is so true! I have a love/hate with my BMI right now. Of course, getting a phone call from my doctor's office telling me that my cholesterol numbers are too high and I need to lose weight and exercise only confirmed what MFP and the BMI has been telling me. All the more reasons why I need a healthy lifestyle - and I want to be around for another 30 to 40 years for my son. :)

    I noticed that the weight range for healthy, overweight, and obese was different than what I originally was using. I don't know if that is due to different weight loss/tracking websites or the weight chart I pulled up online was outdated. But for consistency's sake, I will use the info from MFP. I thought I needed a weight range of 130 to 144 to be at a healthy weight, but MFP says the healthy weight range is 115 to 155. Once I hit the "healthy" range I will figure out what my goal weight will be. But from what I have learned from others in the UAC - I shouldn't pick a single "number" for my goal weight, but a five-pound range goal weight is more realistic since weight fluctuates.
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,153 Member
    I have a smart scale which actually displays that I am healthy at the minute. It once showed ‘UNDERFAT’ for my very fit DH. 😂

    As well as weight, it measures BMI, muscle/fat/water%, recommend TDEE, and bone weight. Very useful.

    However, all of these are only indications, and vary from day to day.
  • RangerRickL
    RangerRickL Posts: 8,469 Member
    Hi to all,
    I'm so happy that you have found a way to add a whole new dimension to relationship building and friendship!
    I would like you creative social ones to help me and the team next week.
    On Monday morning, I'm going to get into my pickup truck at 6 a.m. I'll have my border collie, Chica is the back seat and a horse trailer being towed behind. A lovely brown horse named Cocoa will be back there. It will be two hands on the wheel and 1,800 miles over 3 days...if all goes well.
    Sunday evening, I'll do a Monday opening post, I would like someone to volunteer to take Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
    For example, Terri on Tuesday; MaltedTea on Wednesday and Maddie on Thursday. Or whomever would be willing. Let me know at @RangerRickL
    Thanks!!
  • Dory_42
    Dory_42 Posts: 3,588 Member
    I can do one day. I’m often one of the first to post anyway. I’ll take Wednesday.
  • Mrs_Hoffer
    Mrs_Hoffer Posts: 5,194 Member
    @RangerRickL I can do one as well. I can do Thursday.
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,117 Member
    @RangerRickL happy to help as well. You would possibly still need Tuesday covered. The OCD side of me would just love a tad of guidance. Look to me like opening post goes up something like 10+ PM EST the night before, so that would be Monday night at 10 PM. If you want me to do it, just tag me and confirm. :)
  • MaltedTea
    MaltedTea Posts: 6,286 Member
    @RangerRickL if I don't do it on Tuesday, I'll forget 😭. Just let us know what to do. We got you.

    Chica and Cocoa sound like great company, btw!
  • GigiDoma
    GigiDoma Posts: 445 Member
    @RangerRickL It looks like you got the days covered, but if not, let me know and I can do one!
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,153 Member
    @RangerRickL

    Only just saw this but it seems to be covered already.