How do I know what is a serving of Meatloaf

RunConquerCelebrate
RunConquerCelebrate Posts: 956 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Yesterday I made some meatloaf, I combined two different recipes into one. But how do I know what is a serving of meatloaf how do you figure that out.

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  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    The easiest way, I think, is to take those recipes that you used and enter the exact amounts of each ingredient into the recipe function on this website. That way you can see exactly what the whole recipe has in it and determine how big of a piece you should be having according to how much you need to fit into your diary.

    I have done this with tons of recipes because I have found that in cookbooks, the nutrition values aren't exactly right since I use different brands than the cookbook makers...and that makes me have to adjust my own serving size.
  • Tabs_A
    Tabs_A Posts: 69 Member
    If you plug all the information into the recipe calculator you can make it as many or as few servings as you like. That's what I normally do, just slice up the meatloaf and figure out how much you will eat per meal and how many of those servings you will get out of the meatloaf. Good luck!
  • msemejuru
    msemejuru Posts: 229
    If you made it in a loaf pan it should serve 8. Go measure and mark it out. Sometimes I enter all the ingredients into MFP recipe builder and then play with the serving size until I get around the calories I want.
  • camille45
    camille45 Posts: 106 Member
    use the recipe calculator
  • HidyleDidyle
    HidyleDidyle Posts: 147
    Typically a serving of meat should be about the size of a deck of cards. I think that is around 3 oz. You, of course, can have a smaller serving then that!
  • RunConquerCelebrate
    RunConquerCelebrate Posts: 956 Member
    Thanks for the information, I did enter it into the recipe calculator and used 8 serving since that is how many came out. Thanks everyone.
  • kaymd
    kaymd Posts: 470 Member
    The easiest way, I think, is to take those recipes that you used and enter the exact amounts of each ingredient into the recipe function on this website. That way you can see exactly what the whole recipe has in it and determine how big of a piece you should be having according to how much you need to fit into your diary.

    I have done this with tons of recipes because I have found that in cookbooks, the nutrition values aren't exactly right since I use different brands than the cookbook makers...and that makes me have to adjust my own serving size.
    That's exactly what I do to and it works great.
  • raindancer
    raindancer Posts: 993 Member
    I go with 3 oz's weighed after cooked...Not sure if that is right or wrong.
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