Recipe ingredient question

sweetpotatomama3313

When inputting ingredients for a recipe, I'm a little confused about what "serving size" and "servings" mean in the ingredient tab. For example, I made a large pot of lentil soup which I estimated had 7 servings. When listing the salt, I selected "1 teaspoon" and "1 serving" meaning that I was adding a teaspoon to the whole pot, but apparently MFP thought each bowl of soup had a full teaspoon of salt (yuck). Additionally, I used an onion in the soup, and I selected "1 onion" as the serving size and "1 serving", meaning that I used one onion for the whole pot. Does the app think there was an entire onion in each bowl of soup?

lynn_glenmont

When you're using the recipe creation feature, it should treat any ingredients as being the amount for the whole recipe, not for each serving. Did you actually put "7" in the recipe's field for number of servings?

AnnPT77

Yeah, that's what's confusing me about your post, too.

When we create a recipe in MFP, using the recipe feature, it asks us how many servings are in the recipe. That matters, for your question.

Let's say I make a recipe that I tell MFP has 5 servings. One of the ingredient is one medium onion. When I log one serving of that recipe in my diary, the calories/macros in my diary would include the contribution of one-fifth of an onion (and one-fifth of all the other ingredients).

If I had created that recipe and said it makes one serving, using the same medium onion, and logged one serving of that recipe in my diary, the calories/macros in my diary would include the whole onion (and the total of all the other ingredients in the recipe).

kathipearsall2025

I find the recipe builder confusing as well. The WW one is much more user-friendly.