Nutritional Values in a meal...?

There is a function on this web site to do just that!! On the food tab, click on recipes. Super easy to use!!

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Create a recipe on MFP. I do this as I cook most nights and change the ingredients or amounts based on nutritional values and calories.

There is a function on this web site to do just that!! On the food tab, click on recipes. Super easy to use!!

^^^^ this! I have made a few dishes and put them together so all I have to do is click on "my meals " and there it is. I dont add it to the data base its a pain but use it for me personally. Think you need to do it on the PC...wont work using my kindle fire...

I've just got used to how many portions are in any meal I make just by looking in the pan. Usually the quantity I make works out for 4-5 meals. I freeze the extra portions to have another day.

Question: how does everyone calculate how many servings are in, say, a pot of chili? I'm good at tracking what I'm putting in a recipe, but I can't figure out the serving size and number. Example: I make spaghetti with say, 12 ounces of ground turkey meat and a jar of Prego. The only way I can figure out how to measure how many servings it is to scoop it out into a bowl, then measure the number of cups as I put it back in the pot. Lol. Pretty sure I'm doing it in a super goofy way, there's gotta be a better method!

There are various methods.

For example, you can use a serving bowl/cup, fill it with water, put the water in the empty pot. Repeat until the pot is filled as it would be when you cook. Like this you can find approximately, using this volume method, how many serving are in general in that pot.
In time, by experience, I know how many serving are in each pot I own. Especially for mealsI cook often.

Also, sometimes I take the meal from the pot, to store it in the fridge in smaller dishes, or freeze some servings. So I use the laddle to compose the servings. At that time, I simply choose my serving size (1 laddle, 2 laddles, 2 and a half) and I split the meal in several containers. Maybe I will store more servings in one container, but I would know how many laddles is a serving.
The number of servings if off couse, the number of „laddle portions” I obtain from that pot.

If I cook very compact meals (like pizza), I simply slice the meal and each slice is a serving.

For burgers or patties or rolls, I use kitchen tools to make them equal in size and a serving is a pattie, a burger or a roll. For example, I weight burgers to make 150 grams servings.

Sometimes I just weight. I have weighted down the pot empty, than I weight it with food. I simply put 1 serving. When I eat, I weight the amount I want to eat, and see how much is that from the whole meal. This is super nice because I can compute how much grams I need to eat from that meal to fit in daily goals.