Using a recipe for dinner how to track?

Okay so if this is the recipe someone gave me to use, how do I log it in my food journal when I really don't know how much of each item Im actually using for me (other than chicken as I can weigh that)

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH CHICKEN
And it's Healthy...So much better than fried!!!

1/2 cup parmesan cheese
1 cup Greek yogurt -plain
1 tsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp seasoning salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Spread mixture over chicken breasts, bake at 375 degrees for 45 mins--Absolutely Delish!

Enter everything into the recipe builder and create the recipe.

I really want to try this now btw it looks yummy!

But that is all that was given to me so how much do I know is a portion size? I have never added a recipe before.

I would say one chicken breast is one serving. If this only covers 4 chicken breasts, mark the serving size as 4. When you add recipes, you just add one ingredient at a time. I would add the chicken as raw chicken. That way you won't be adding all the fun things from the database that other people have added to their chicken.

Sounds like it would be good on fish also.

But that is all that was given to me so how much do I know is a portion size? I have never added a recipe before.

If you are using four chicken breasts, that is probably meant to be four servings in that recipe. Sometimes what I will do is build the recipe and estimate how many servings, then I will see how much I actually eat. For things like soup or pasta it is a little more difficult. If I think it is going to make 8 servings, but both my husband and I ate what I thought to be two servings each then I will go back and change how many servings were in the actual recipe (to four) because I must have underestimated how much it would make. If I eat less than one portion, maybe 3/4 of it, then that is how I will enter it in my diary when I log the food, as 0.75 of 1 serving.

Note - if you change the # of servings the recipe makes AFTER you have already logged that in your diary, then it will not adjust the calories in your diary. You have to delete it from your diary and re-enter it after you've changed the servings in the recipe to get an accurate estimate.

To be really accurate you want to enter the ingredients, then weigh the whole thing when it's done, and divide the weight by your number of servings to know exactly how much a serving is.

I don't always bother though, when it's chicken breasts, because it's just annoying. But it's a once in a while thing so it's not a huge deal, if it was every day, yeah I'd have to be more accurate.