I cook for only two people (me and a 6 year old) and I often cook 12 servings! Trust me, cook the multiple servings then you always have something quick to grab in the fridge. Or freeze some. One of the most common complaints about Paleo comes from people who are cooking far too many small portion meals and run into trouble because there is nothing quick on hand for hunger emergencies. I do huge cook-ups every weekend just so I have left-overs all week. I just do not have time/am not willing to spend 2+ hours in the kitchen on week nights. I eat my cook up leftovers for lunch and supper. It looks like I'm cooking for an army rather than 2 people.

I enter most of my recipes here, ingredient by ingredient, and the calories macros are calculated for me. For simple recipes with few ingredients I might just enter it in the daily log without creating a recipe.

But when you cook stuff all together, how do you figure out whats what in terms of how much of a serving, such as stews etc. when entering it individually.

And when you make a recipe in the MFP recipe maker, you enter servings and it tells you how many calories per serving .. but I can never figure out how much 1 serving is because most sites dont say.

I'm a bit confused cuz this is simple stuff, a bit of basic math…. enter the ingredients in the recipe. Estimate the amount of servings. At the end, if you want, you can measure how many servings are in the entire dish. For instance, I usually call a serving one cup, or half of a cup, or a tablespoon etc depending on the item. Sometimes i know how many cups are in the dish based on the measurements of the ingredients that went in, or I scoop it all out and measure it. Use a big measuring cup, or use a small measuring cup and dump it in a big mixing bowl…. why would you need to divide it all out in little bowls? There are kitchen spoons (often ladles) that hold exactly a half cup so they make things even easier.

Who cares if the recipe says 6 servings and there is 8 cups- just enter 8 servings, or 4 or whatever you want. Recipes can also be modified after they are saved. I stick to easy sizes. Even if I plan to eat more than a cup I can always put 1.5 or 2 servings in my dairy instead of just 1. No matter.

As you said you have a problem calculating baked goods this is my example from yesterday. I made some paleo cookies for a treat yesterday, I entered all the ingredients from the recipe first. Although the recipe said I should get 18 cookies, I actually only managed to get 16 from the batter, so I added 16 to the servings.
The problem I now have is I have 14 cookies left (I ate one and so did DD1) and despite being paleo are still very calorific ( about 190kcal per cookie) and I try to limit my treats to one day a week. These cookies will keep screaming at me from the tin!

From looking at this recipe, this is how I would do it: Create a recipe for the gravy and the cauliflower. After you have cooked your meal, take your portion of each item. Enter the chicken separately as in, chicken breast @____oz or thighs @_____oz. Then divide your recipe by how many servings you will get, if you took 1/4 of the gravy then there are 4 servings (you can go back and alter your number of servings in your entered recipe at that point). Same with the cauliflower. When you enter the recipe into your log it has already been calculated per single serving.

If you want to create a recipe for the chicken plus the gravy, you can but, you will have to enter it like, 2 breasts @____oz+2thighs @_____oz+2 legs @____oz etc. then add in the rest of the ingredients. Pain in the butt that way!!!

If the recipe were more like a casserole rather than a meal with different components I would enter the entire recipe into MFP. When it is done, portion out your serving and divide the recipe into that many servings. Example: Lasagna, after you take your portion, you can see how many of that size portion is left, say 11, then that recipe serves 12.

I hope this was slightly helpful, feel free to hit me up if you need clarification or have any questions