How do I add serving size in a recipe.

TraysieP
TraysieP Posts: 1 Member
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Hi there. When I make a recipe, it gives me 1 serve size only. How do I incorpate grams cups etc so that I can weight it or serve it differently?

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  • durden
    durden Posts: 3,699 MFP Staff
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    Because recipes list ingredients with various types of measurements (weight, volume, and so on) there is no way for the recipe editor to calculate how many servings of a particular size will result when the various items are combined.

    If you're not sure how many servings a recipe will produce, enter a best-guess number when you first create the recipe.

    After the recipe is prepared, you can manually measure the number of servings that have been produced. Then, the recipe can be edited and the correct number of servings can be entered.

    We would also recommend then putting in the actual serving amount in the title of the recipe to then remember how much each serving weighs.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,092 Member
    TraysieP wrote: »
    Hi there. When I make a recipe, it gives me 1 serve size only. How do I incorpate grams cups etc so that I can weight it or serve it differently?

    I like my recipes to allow serving in grams.

    Therefore, when I make the recipe, I weigh the finished, cooked total recipe. Then I input the recipe, putting the total number of grams in the number of servings for the recipe. MFP will give a warning message about whether I really meant 1247 servings or whatever, but if I continue it will add it. Then, when I eat some of the food, I weigh it, and log that as the number of servings. For example, if I was eating 157 grams of that recipe, I'd log 157 servings in my diary. The per-serving nutrient and calorie amounts look funny, but MFP saves enough decimal digits behind the scenes that it seems to work out fine.

    This is easy to do with weight, because I can weigh the container before I make the dish, then weigh the finished dish plus container once it's cooked, to get the weight of just the cooked food.

    The same general thing could be done with cups, but it seems like it would be harder to know accurately how many cups of soup or something was in a pan, unless I poured it out cup by cup into another container, or the cooking container had cup measurements on it. Not sure, though, because I pretty much always log in grams.

    I don't know of a way to make it know both volume and weight in serving size, unless one of them is in the title and the other in the serving size. Though I'm not saying that's wrong to want, because we're all different, but for the same recipe, I personally wouldn't want to serve in two different types of measurements. If you do, that's more challenging.

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