Serving Size

Nlongenecker

When a recipe tells you how many servings but not the size of a serving, how do you figure out the serving size? The obvious way is to divide what you made in 4 servings if it is 4. But what if its for more servings?

MyaPapaya75

You have to divide it regardless of the size....but its easier to stay away from big dishes in my opinion....Big dishes at my house usually mean I am having a salad and a turkey burger or chicken breast or a lean cuisine...its far to easy to over eat when big dishes are involved and its way to hard to measure.

LittleSpy

I often just weigh the final product & divide the weight by however many servings I think it is. Then I weigh out an individual serving. If it looks good, I go with it & weigh out all my other servings accordingly.

Nlongenecker

Thanks, I know it was kind of a dumb question...I knew the answer I guess. I was just hoping there was an easier way.

cmw72

I always have the problem with recipes I find on Sparkrecipes.

They will tell you how many servings you will yield, and how many calories per serving, but never how much 1 serving is.

So yeah, you just have to measure the total weight and divide by the number of servings you expect.

It's a little cumbersome, but it works.

bjberry

Often, right beside the "1 serving" statement, there will be a "(120g)"--as an example. One ounce is 28 grams, so you can divide 28 into that number of grams and you will know the ounces in one serving. That way, you do not have to weigh the entire container. Just weigh your plate and then add the "(120g)" amount onto it. I love my postal scale. You can weigh in ounces or in grams on it, so you do less math. Our math teachers were right--we did need to learn all that stuff!!

megamom

That's what I love about All Recipe. You can just write in how many your serving and it calculates the recipe for that plus gives you all your nutritional information. And they have a ton of healthy recipes.