Servings to grams

tjones4125

I created a recipe for a loaf of hommade bread and trying to add the serving size to reflect 796 grams but the serving size only goes from 1-100. Any suggestions?

Alatariel75

I put the serving as either 10g or or 100g and put that in the recipe title. I currently have "Zucchini soup per 100g" which ended up being 1700g, so I said there were 17 serves total, and if my serve is 450g, I log 4.5 serves.

lazysquirrelus

I completely don't understand MFPs that can't add the simplest function of displaying the weight of one serving for so many years. I have to keep this number in my head or write it down in the name of the receipe... it shows a pig's attitude towards users and I've already regretted paying for Premium. In this regard, FatSecter is much more convenient. Already sent ticket to MFP but I'm sure that my question about this feature will be ignored

ninerbuff

Lol, put down on 1 gram serving, then put down 796 servings that you ate. Or 100g per serving and 7.96 servings.

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lazysquirrelus

You pay 80$ for Premium for manually calculation so simple things?) Lol. It's the first. The second - you must manually calculate total weight for all ingredients and only then to divide weight with servings. Lol. All necessary data holds in MFP database during the recipe creation process and only MFP need - it't to show to user the weight of all ingredients or, amazing, to show service size in grams/oz/lb etc. The time for data manipulation on paper stays in the past…you can to mention floppy disk for extra)

AnnPT77

I don't understand the underlying point of this whole thread, frankly. Alatarial75 answered the OP in a sensible way at the time back in January, IMO.

The rest of the thread I don't understand, and the premise of the OP doesn't seem to be how it's working for me right now, anyway. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, dunno.

Yes, MFP will produce a message if a person enters a huge number of servings for a recipe. But - at least last I knew - that was just sort of a warning message, in that it would let the person go ahead and enter whatever number of servings they wish. Personally, for many recipes, I weigh the total finished food in grams (easy), put that number of grams in the number of servings, then when I eat and log the food I weigh my serving and input that number of grams as my number of servings (also easy). It will let me enter a truly huge number of servings: Many thousands, tens of thousands, etc. I don't know the limit, but it's big.

On top of that - at least in the Android app - nowadays it lets me enter 4 digits in the number of servings. In other words, I can enter up to 9999 servings of my 1-gram serving size. It's hard for me to imagine eating as many as 9999 grams of one food at one time, and in some bizarre ultra-rare case where I did, it wouldn't feel burdensome to me to log the same food twice or more to get to some unimaginably high number of servings. It's not like it's going to be frequent.

Also: There is literally no way MFP can accurately estimate the weight of a finished dish from the ingredients, so it can't estimate the weight per serving either. When we cook a thing, it usually either gains weight (if boiled, for example) or loses weight (if roasted/grilled, for example). The gained/lost weight is usually zero-calorie water.

MFP has absolutely no way to know how much water was gained or lost in the cooking process. My extra-crispy roasted brussels sprouts lost more water weight than someone else's lightly roasted brussels sprouts: If we input the same number of servings and the exact same ingredients, my serving weighs less than their serving, even though it has the same number of calories per serving.

I suppose MFP could let us input the number of grams per our personal serving in a separate field, but I don't see how that's easier than just putting the total finished weight in the number of servings for the recipe.

lazysquirrelus

Yes, I know very well that during cooking the food loses moisture and other nutrients, that the total mass of the prepared meal will be different. Yes, you specify the number of servings for which all the ingredients are designed. But this is true ONLY and ONLY when after cooking the meal you put these portions in separate containers and you will be sure that no matter what portion you take, it will have approximately the same mass fraction of products. But most of them keep the cooked meal in a large container or pot. Let's say, after cooking, I know that there should be 300 grams of food in one serving. Now I want to eat one serving that's similar to 300 grams, and tomorrow afternoon 200 grams, and the day after tomorrow 275 grams. And I should calculate how many servings it is every time - 0.6666 portions or 0.82333 servings. Instead of MFP giving the right to choose when entering the recipe in the diary - a portion or in grams, knowing that there were 3000 grams of ingredients in total and 10 servings. Changing the weight of the prepared meal remains on the user's conscience. As well as when adding in portions, you will also only manually calculate the weight of the food, taking into account the change in the weight of the entire prepared recipe. What if you decide to change the recipe and, for example, put not 100 grams of cheese, but 150 grams? What if the ingredients are not a few, but ten? Counting everything again. Putting every time the serving size to title of recipe…sure, 21 century and we don't have any techs for simplest data manipulations… I hope I explained the essence of my dissatisfaction with the application quite clearly.

AnnPT77

No, it's not necessary to portion out into separate, equal containers. Just set the number of servings of the recipe to the total number of grams in the whole finished recipe.

If my pot of soup is 2574 grams, that's 2574 servings. If I eat 200g, I log 200 servings. If I eat 223g, I log 223 servings. I don't have to portion out the food, I just keep taking it out of the pot I cooked it in.

Yes, there will be some minor evaporation from the pot later if I reheat. My numbers will be off by a tiny number of calories. I don't care. Lots of precisely logged foods are off by a tiny number of calories because of things like one apple being sweeter than the next.

Yes, if you remake the recipe with different ingredients or a different finished weight you have to edit the recipe. This doesn't seem like a big deal to me. If the recipe is different, it's different.

Lietchi

Or you can save the combination of ingredients as a Meal rather than in a recipe:

• I put the total weight of the dish in the name of the meal, to remember
• I log fractions of it according to the size of the portion I took. Sure, I need a calculator for that, so it's a bit more hassle, but...
• It's way easier to tweak a recipe afterwards, either by changing the original or making a copy with slightly different ingredients
• As the ingredients are added individually to the diary, you can even adjust afterwards, after logging to your diary

I've never enjoyed the recipe builder myself, too hard to find the right ingredients and no way to use an existing recipe to make a new one. I find the meals functionality much more pleasant to use.

lazysquirrelus

How to enter data is everyone's personal case, it makes no sense to argue. But having all the necessary set of source data, stubbornly refuse to implement the simplest function - the feedback indicator of the development team. You can try to enter the query "myfitnesspal servings in grams" in Google and you will be very surprised how many people have long been asked to implement this opportunity and there is no feedback from MFP. Have a good night for everyone)

AnnPT77

"Servings in grams" is not necessarily the same issue, at least not in the posts I've seen about that topic over the ten years I've been using the app.

Also, if you want a feature to be added, posting about it here in the Recipes section isn't going to accomplish that. The MFP staff don't read every post in the Community. The Community is primarily for discussion among regular users. In this section, you're talking to other regular users with no more power over the software than you have yourself.

If you want to suggest new features, the place to do that is here:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/feature-suggestions-and-ideas

The MFP staff do read that section, and sometimes respond.