adding a meal to food diary

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clewliss
clewliss Posts: 640 Member
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When I went to add a meal to the food diary, I pulled up the ingredient and it will give me the serving, but say I use the whole can, pkg, or container, how can I do that and then break it up into servings? I looked but didn't find this to be an option! Chances are, I'm not going to eat 1/3 c of cheese in a serving that ony calls for a cup that feeds 10 people. Does that make sense?

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  • clewliss
    clewliss Posts: 640 Member
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    When I went to add a meal to the food diary, I pulled up the ingredient and it will give me the serving, but say I use the whole can, pkg, or container, how can I do that and then break it up into servings? I looked but didn't find this to be an option! Chances are, I'm not going to eat 1/3 c of cheese in a serving that ony calls for a cup that feeds 10 people. Does that make sense?
  • queentam
    queentam Posts: 1
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    When you put in the serving size break it up by percent. If you only ate 1/2 of a 1/3 cup , put the serving in as .50 if you only ate a quarter of 1/3 cup, put your serving size in as .25. I hope this is helpful.
  • clewliss
    clewliss Posts: 640 Member
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    When you put in the serving size break it up by percent. If you only ate 1/2 of a 1/3 cup , put the serving in as .50 if you only ate a quarter of 1/3 cup, put your serving size in as .25. I hope this is helpful.

    yes, thank you! It's like a casserole that has chicken, mozz cheese, rotel, cream of chicken, & sour cream wrapped in a tortilla with cheese sprinkled on top. So if there are 10 tortillas in the casserole, I might eat 1/2 of a tortilla- so that's what I was trying to figure.
  • wildkitty505
    wildkitty505 Posts: 222 Member
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    There are several good recipe calculators out there. 2 I like are :

    http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp

    and

    http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

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