Allow gram option when creating a recipe

cressidablumson

Aaaaah...please, please allow the option to measure by grams instead of just serves when creating a recipe. Current recipe function is unusable because it's limited only to serving size. I weigh all my food, as I know many people do. Having to manually calculate serving size or weigh AN ENTIRE meal is ludicrous.

Alatariel75

I work around this by adding the number of grams the meals is as the serving size, or if that's really high, making the serving size either 10g or 100g and noting that in the title. So if my portion is 250g, I log 2.5 serves.

AnnPT77

There's no way for MFP to allow serving sizes in grams when creating a recipe, unless we weight the entire dish. Cooking causes food to gain and lose variable (unpredictable) amounts of weight, mostly from evaporation or absorption of water. That can't be remotely reliably estimated from recipe contents, or even contents plus cooking method.

I weigh the whole completed food the recipe made, then use the total number of grams as the serving size. When I log a portion, I log the number of servings as the number of grams I ate. It works fine.

MFP will give a warning message if you try to input a very large number of servings. It will still let you go on and add the recipe that way, if you proceed.

Some people find it helpful to pre-weigh their most commonly-used pans or baking dishes empty, then tape the list inside a cabinet door or something. Weighing the whole completed dish is then a simple matter of weighing the food pot/dish and all, then subtracting the pot-dish weight.

Alatariel75

AnnPT77 wrote: »

There's no way for MFP to allow serving sizes in grams when creating a recipe, unless we weight the entire dish. Cooking causes food to gain and lose variable (unpredictable) amounts of weight, mostly from evaporation or absorption of water. That can't be remotely reliably estimated from recipe contents, or even contents plus cooking method.

I weigh the whole completed food the recipe made, then use the total number of grams as the serving size. When I log a portion, I log the number of servings as the number of grams I ate. It works fine.

MFP will give a warning message if you try to input a very large number of servings. It will still let you go on and add the recipe that way, if you proceed.

Some people find it helpful to pre-weigh their most commonly-used pans or baking dishes empty, then tape the list inside a cabinet door or something. Weighing the whole completed dish is then a simple matter of weighing the food pot/dish and all, then subtracting the pot-dish weight.

Heh, I have a note in my phone of the weight of all my most used pots, pans and ovenware! Plates and bowls, too.