Logging a specific amount of a recipe

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michaelckatz6451
michaelckatz6451 Posts: 1 Member
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Hi,

When I have a recipe which i defined, and then I wish to log that I ate 150 grams of that recipe, how do I do it?

The only way is see is to compute the ratio between the amount (150 grams) and the total amount of the recipe.

Any other ideas?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,371 Community Helper

    What you said can work, sure.

    When I input a recipe, I weigh the finished food and input the total number of grams in the whole dish as the number of servings. Then, when I eat some, I weigh my portion and log that number of servings.

    When I input the big number of servings for the recipe, MFP gives some kind of "are you sure?" message, I forget the exact text. But it will let me go on and create the recipe that way.

  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,199 Member

    What Ann described is probably the easiest way to deal with this, since it doesn't require a system for keeping track of how many grams you have defined as a serving.

    Sometimes I prefer to have the nutritional information for a serving (when browsing recipes) reflect an amount I would normally eat. When I do that (say, having a casserole be 10 servings, a loaf of bread 15 servings, a small pot of stew, soup, or chili be 6 servings), I include the weight of a serving in the name of the recipe. That is, I divide the weight of the finished recipe from the number of servings I want/expect to get out of it, and edit the name of the recipe to say something like "Beef-vegetable stew (srvg = 198 g)."

    Note that your own method only works if you use the default definition of the entire recipe being one serving. In either Ann's method or mine, you need to edit the number of servings and/or the name of the recipe when you're creating the recipe, or after you're done cooking if you entered and saved all the ingredients already.

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