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jcmrax5
jcmrax5 Posts: 133 Member
edited February 4 in Food and Nutrition
We're making beef stew for dinner tonight. Im trying to add the recipe to my database but im unsure on how many servings it "should" feed. It's 3 pounds of meat (we love left overs!) and then about 5 medium potatoes (more or less once I cut them and see how much it actually is), about 5+ big carrots, 6-7 sticks of celery, and 1/2 of a lg. onion. does anyone make a similar recipe? How many does it serve for you?

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  • shapefitter
    shapefitter Posts: 900 Member
    Approx 200g meat per person. If you look it up in the food diary, you should be able to find how many calories it is.
  • whitebalance
    whitebalance Posts: 1,654 Member
    My suggestion is, don't overthink it too much. How much of the finished pot of stew do you put into your bowl when you serve yourself? About a sixth? Then the recipe is six servings. You can weigh and measure it if you feel a need to be precise (and if you find your progress stalling, you may need to), but "close enough" is probably close enough for a meal you're preparing infrequently.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,368 Member
    I'd just divide by whatever makes a good amount of calories.

    Honestly the only time I used the recipe maker for something (a taco soup), I totally guessed everything. There was no way I was going to weigh a full crockpot of food to check what the serving should be, so it was total guesswork. I had it for a week and still lost weight, so whatever...
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