Can someone help me with logging food, confused!

When I cook @ home I use the recipe builder and then I have to approximate the serving size. I am sure its not exact but its close. Good luck!

For homemade food, you will either log each ingredient separately for each meal, or if it's a recipe you make often, use the recipe builder, which lets you enter the ingredients and divide it into a certain number of portions. Yes, either way, you have to find and enter each ingredient. It may seem tedious, but it gets faster once you get used to doing it, and your often used foods will be easier to find on the "frequent" foods tab.

hi -
i think it's under the food tab - but you can create your own recipes, and the program will automatically calculate the protein/carbs/fat in your food -
for example - i made a new recipe called Tomato Soup - i entered that it would serve 5, then added the ingredients from the database - a can of diced tomatoes and raw onions, you can even add the water - search - municipal water -

this food will now appear under the recipes section of my food tab and i can see how many cals, protein, carbs, etc are in each serving.

i know this is a very sketchy description, but i hope it helps.
the idea is basically what you already do, it sounds like - but does the additional calculations using the foods in the database that are already measured for protein, carb, etc.

I've started putting more & more in the recipe builder. Even 2-ingredient things (like hamburger & seasoning packet). Like others said - it does the work for you.

Recipe Builder is awesome. It helps me control specific nutrients that I'm watching for health reasons. For example - the other day I entered a cookie recipe. I'm watching my sodium intake, and the recipe called for baking soda. Baking powder is much lower in sodium - simple switch. Same with other ingredients. Recipe calls for 2 eggs? Enter it and see how much fat that is in each portion. Change it to an egg & 2 egg whites to lower the fat. Being able to see the changes in nutrients really helps me make simple swaps for healthier options.

Recipe Builder also really helps me determine reasonable portion sizes. For example - in the past I would make a big pan of lasagna, cut it into servings, and then try to figure out how many calories were in a serving. Now I enter the entire recipe in the builder and then change the # of servings until I get the # of calories I want to eat in each portion. MUCH easier to go about it from that perspective. Sometimes I'll go to the trouble to actually weight each portion to make sure they are the same, but sometimes I just eyeball it and reason that over the coarse of a month it evens out calorie wise.