Easiest way to get your servings right?

lizcat504

If you're making a big batch of something (for example, chili in the crockpot) with 6+ servings, what have you found to be the easiest way to portion it out into the correct amount of servings?

acheben

This is really annoying to do, but it is the most accurate way that I have found:

- Weigh the pot before you start cooking and record. (I use grams for added accuracy)
- Weigh the final completed dish in the original pot.
- Subtract the recorded weight of the pot.
- Divide by the number of servings you want and record the approx weight of a serving in the recipe title on MFP.

ShannonMpls

^^ she's right.

I'm too lazy for that, though. I eyeball - looks like 6 servings, it's 6 servings. Sometimes I will actually ladle it out into serving and freezer bowls so that I get it a little more precise but I'm kind of lazy.

SezxyStef

This is really annoying to do, but it is the most accurate way that I have found:

- Weigh the pot before you start cooking and record. (I use grams for added accuracy)
- Weigh the final completed dish in the original pot.
- Subtract the recorded weight of the pot.
- Divide by the number of servings you want and record the approx weight of a serving in the recipe title on MFP.

Yup...it's a pain but that's what I do too...I am tempted to write on them with permanent marker their weight in grams.

sweetnlow30

I weigh the whole batch as well. Although I admit I haven't been as diligent lately. If its a dish I can cut, I cut it by eyeballing my 6-8 pieces and log my piece as 1.3 servings to cover any error. It's harder for liquid meals. I guess if I stop losing I will go back to being more careful. After four years of calorie counting, it does get easier to estimate but of course it's not 100% accurate.

litsy3

I weigh the batch and then save the recipe as 100g per serving (no matter how big or small an actual serving is). So if it's 890g I save it as 8.9 servings, etc. Then I just weigh however much I'm having each time and log that.

michelleepotter

This is really annoying to do, but it is the most accurate way that I have found:

- Weigh the pot before you start cooking and record. (I use grams for added accuracy)
- Weigh the final completed dish in the original pot.
- Subtract the recorded weight of the pot.
- Divide by the number of servings you want and record the approx weight of a serving in the recipe title on MFP.

This, except that I weighed all my pots, pans, and dishes, wrote it all down, and printed it to hang on my fridge.

Secondly, I put the weight of the meal as servings. So a meal that is 3050 grams is 3050 servings. When I eat 300 grams, I just put in 300 servings. Easy.