If You're Going to Add Something to the Database ...

If you search "Lisa" there are countless "Lisa's Home made __ " That is what really bugs me. Why not just add it to their own inventory of recipes, and not the public data base. Someone should find this Lisa person, and tell her to knock it off.

Um...it's not me:)

Sometimes, I add entries with lower-than-accurate calorie counts, or edit existing entries to lower the calorie counts? Why? It helps me keep my intake below my goal, and feel better about myself. it also prevents my friends from getting on my back about going over my calorie goals.

NOW it makes sense!

Aye Freaki'n men to that.

I agree with the original post. However, the devils advocate in me says that sometimes the entered data was correct (at the time) but was changed later by the manufacturer. I have noticed this to be the case on several occasions. For example Snickers recently lowered the number of calories in each candy bay (both regular and king size)

What bugs me more is coming across personalized ones... like "jack's shrimp stir-fry" or "lucy's 2 egg omelet". Why aren't people using the recipe function for stuff like this instead of cluttering up the database??

I've done this, but because both my husband and I use the site and when I cook it's faster for him to log if it's in the database than for him to enter the recipe in as well.

Please, find another way.

Aww... so I guess my cookies can't have one calorie in it no matter how badly I wish they did.

In all seriousness though, I hate it too. I want to know exactly what I'm eating, and I don't always have time to check to the labels. But I do have common sense... if something has bread in it I'm not expecting it to be 10 calories.

I also agree that it's frustrating when people add "____'s stir fry"

ETA: I also wish the recipe creator would allow you to enter the servings as a unit size(cups,grams, etc) rather than number of people it serves. It's difficult to know how many 'servings' I'm going to get out of a pot of Gumbo. But if I could measure out the number of cups it makes, It would be easier to keep track of. My "serving" may not be the same size as my partner's "serving". Difficult to say what portion of a "serving" I've had if I don't know the measurement of that 'serving'.

Thank you!! So glad I am not the only one with that issue!! Do you know how many times i've made something, then had to measure out 1/2 cup by 4 people, and if there's anything left over add a 1/8 of a cup etc etc to know what the measurement is if i were to theoretically serve X to 4 people? Most of the time I don't..which probably explains a lot lol!

Unless you and your partner are both doing MPF then the only serving size you need to enter is how many servings your recipe would make if you were going to be the only one eating it. It doesn't matter how much your partner or your son or uncle Joe will eat. For example, when I make a meal and put it in my reciper builder, I look at the amount it makes and say a serve of that FOR ME would be, say, 1/6 or 1/8 or 1/10... so then I put in the serves section 6 or 8 or 10. It doesn' matter how many people it actually serves, just how many serves it would be FOR YOU.

If you are entering a recipe straight from a book, it usually gives a serving size the recipe will make. Use that and stick to that when you are serving yourself.

What bugs me more is coming across personalized ones... like "jack's shrimp stir-fry" or "lucy's 2 egg omelet". Why aren't people using the recipe function for stuff like this instead of cluttering up the database??

Have you ever come across the "deleteds"?? If you search the database for "delete or deleted" you get a whole slew of entries where people have decided, for whatever reason, to try to cancel the entry but those entries don't ever just go away. Now, if I need to enter something, I pick one of the "deleted" entries and edit it to the food I want to add to the database. Just my little part in trying to do some clean-up.

Those are my recipes. That is what you say what the recipes are for. I even go as far as to add a date to the name if it's something I make often but throw together what's there so the numbers vary widely from week to week. Most notably tuna salad. Some times I have more onions that others, or more black olives...

I use the "RECIPE" function for that. Then, if I need to change an amount or add or subtract an ingredient, I can just modify the 'recipe' for that item. Seems a lot easier to me than trying to remember what you had in it when you created the entry.

For those who are eating the same thing as friends or partners, I enter the recipe in mine and log it in my diary. My friends can look at my diary on the computer or in their app (on their iPod or iPhones) and just 'copy' my meal to their dairy. They don't have to enter the recipe separately at all.

Thank you for being so kind and thoughtful in how you use the database. Now if we could all do that.... I never make anything the same way twice so I am always editing my recipes; it would be just stupid to put them in the database.

Sometimes, I add entries with lower-than-accurate calorie counts, or edit existing entries to lower the calorie counts? Why? It helps me keep my intake below my goal, and feel better about myself. it also prevents my friends from getting on my back about going over my calorie goals.

You're the reason I'm getting fat......fcker!

What bugs me more is coming across personalized ones... like "jack's shrimp stir-fry" or "lucy's 2 egg omelet". Why aren't people using the recipe function for stuff like this instead of cluttering up the database??

I've done this, but because both my husband and I use the site and when I cook it's faster for him to log if it's in the database than for him to enter the recipe in as well.

Please, find another way.

I guess you could always add it in one account, and then friends can just add the total calorie count? I guess that's not helpful if you want to track protein and carbs as well, but there's one way around it??

Don't tell me what to do!

HAHAHA! I got a good laugh out of this. Totally off topic here, but I've seen your posts in a few threads and you remind me a lot of my older brother. You even look like him in your profile pic. This comment is exactly the kind of thing he would say...

Regarding the original post, though, I don't use the public database at all. I have created my own personal database for everything I use...

@NikkiSixxGuns...Your brother looks like a fruit pie?

Sometimes, I add entries with lower-than-accurate calorie counts, or edit existing entries to lower the calorie counts? Why? It helps me keep my intake below my goal, and feel better about myself. it also prevents my friends from getting on my back about going over my calorie goals.

Please tell me this is a joke to wind people up? Because its the stupidest thing I have ever read.

jlapey, with stuff like that I just measure how many ladlefuls there is, 1 ladle=1 serving. You could do the same with cups if you prefer.

No need to be rude.

Thanks for confirming that

What bugs me more is coming across personalized ones... like "jack's shrimp stir-fry" or "lucy's 2 egg omelet". Why aren't people using the recipe function for stuff like this instead of cluttering up the database??

I've done this, but because both my husband and I use the site and when I cook it's faster for him to log if it's in the database than for him to enter the recipe in as well.

Please, find another way.

I guess you could always add it in one account, and then friends can just add the total calorie count? I guess that's not helpful if you want to track protein and carbs as well, but there's one way around it??

You can copy your friends' meals from the app, the same way you would copy a meal from your own diary to today's. Only works if you have the app, though.

Sometimes, I add entries with lower-than-accurate calorie counts, or edit existing entries to lower the calorie counts? Why? It helps me keep my intake below my goal, and feel better about myself. it also prevents my friends from getting on my back about going over my calorie goals.

I see what you did there.

I hate going to add a something to my diary and all I see for the nutrients is n/a

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