Breaking down the nutrition of recipes

wibutterflymagic

I'm new to MFP so maybe there is something on here and I don't know it yet, but on weight watchers you can enter a recipe and then it will break it down into serving sizes and nutritional values. Unlike many people these days I actually cook and the time is coming when I will be making casseroles and chili etc. and I don't have any idea how I'm going to be able to log this information. Can anyone help??

rockerbabyy

Food tab> Recipes>Enter New Recipe
you can enter all the ingredients, and then tell it how many servings you want it to be and it calculates the calories etc.
for soups/chilis i usually use 1 cup as a serving size - then i know if my recipe makes 10 cups, theres ten servings.

Nalgh94

I love the enter my recipe here, makes me watch how I cook/bake and makes logging in food much more accurate. Good luck

Railr0aderTony

Use the recipe tab under the food catagory, you make a recipe and enter ingredients and it will put all the info in for you, it is a little tricky to master but once you do it will be a snap, I use it almost everyday. the one trick is figuring out how many servings you are going to have. what I do is make a guestimate and then after i am finished, I measure out the final product(if soup or chili- per cup) then enter the correted number in the recipe and save it. then it will be there for you to add to your diary.

wibutterflymagic

Thanks everyone!! That is the one area I haven't looked at yet. I just assumed it was an area to get recipes from. See....it's true what they say about assuming!

AnikaP81

That is what the other MFP members are here for I love the recipe function. That way I don't have to use a "guesstimate" from the database