How to report food

If I'm making just 1 portion of something, I just log the ingredients individually for as my lunch for example. If it's something I'll only eat a portion of at that meal, I create a recipe, add the ingredients there, and then when you need to add it, you choose 'my recipes', and find the food there.

Try the recipe builder.

It has its own issues as you will find out.

What I usually do when I make a recipe is while I cook I write down the ingredients and amounts on a piece of paper, then after dinner I would build the recipe using the website. This way I can sit down and search for the proper ingredients ie the entries without the star, check the nutrition label on packaged goods and not pause dinner to do so.

The tricky part comes to determining the serving size and not being able to edit the serving size when you use the recipe again. (though apparently you can on the phone app)

Do not waste your time with the new recipe builder that you import the recipe from a website or using the phone app.

a trick to serving sizes is to weight the whole of the final cooked recipe

set the serving to the number of whole grams in the final product

then weigh out what you serve yourself (in grams) and log grams servings

so my loaf that i cooked recently gave 765g i logged using the recipe builer 765 servings
then when I cut a slice that weighed 34g i log 34 servings of 1 g

great tip, thanks!

This is how I deal with serving sizes:

Most of my recipes already have suggested serving sizes, but if they don't, it is pretty easy to figure out if you cook a lot.

I divide as soon as I am done cooking, (before eating). I usually eyeball though. So if I make a casserole/lasagna that should serve 8, I slice it into 8 pieces, put one each on a plate for me and my husband and put the other 6 into individual containers for leftovers, already divided.*

*I make meal plans weekly and already know when they leftovers are going to be eaten, whether I freeze them for later or use them for lunches.

I do not make sweets much but if I make brownies in a 9x13 pan, I cut them up into 24 squares.

Same for soup or liquids. I use a soup ladle and put one level ladle into our dinner bowls and tupperware until they are all even.

I do my best to keep things even. Breads, meatloafs and such are the hardest. You have to make the "shorter" end pieces thicker than the "taller" middle pieces. Sometimes I do weigh these things.

It is a little weird when we have people over. No one gets seconds.... I have other food, snacks around if people are still hungry. My friends have gotten used to it. I try to cook just as many servings as people coming so there is no food left. (My sister's fiance is a big eater (and super fit), so I serve him two servings).

For my husband and I the rule is if you are still hungry after dinner, you have to wait an hour then you can eat something else. Since I have a plan for the leftovers we tend not to overeat at dinner and if we are still hungry we usually have popcorn later.