Easiest way to get your servings right?

lizcat504
lizcat504 Posts: 8
edited February 25 in Food and Nutrition
If you're making a big batch of something (for example, chili in the crockpot) with 6+ servings, what have you found to be the easiest way to portion it out into the correct amount of servings?

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  • acheben
    acheben Posts: 476 Member
    This is really annoying to do, but it is the most accurate way that I have found:

    - Weigh the pot before you start cooking and record. (I use grams for added accuracy)
    - Weigh the final completed dish in the original pot.
    - Subtract the recorded weight of the pot.
    - Divide by the number of servings you want and record the approx weight of a serving in the recipe title on MFP.
  • ShannonMpls
    ShannonMpls Posts: 1,936 Member
    ^^ she's right.

    I'm too lazy for that, though. I eyeball - looks like 6 servings, it's 6 servings. Sometimes I will actually ladle it out into serving and freezer bowls so that I get it a little more precise but I'm kind of lazy.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    This is really annoying to do, but it is the most accurate way that I have found:

    - Weigh the pot before you start cooking and record. (I use grams for added accuracy)
    - Weigh the final completed dish in the original pot.
    - Subtract the recorded weight of the pot.
    - Divide by the number of servings you want and record the approx weight of a serving in the recipe title on MFP.

    Yup...it's a pain but that's what I do too...I am tempted to write on them with permanent marker their weight in grams.
  • sweetnlow30
    sweetnlow30 Posts: 497 Member
    I weigh the whole batch as well. Although I admit I haven't been as diligent lately. If its a dish I can cut, I cut it by eyeballing my 6-8 pieces and log my piece as 1.3 servings to cover any error. It's harder for liquid meals. I guess if I stop losing I will go back to being more careful. After four years of calorie counting, it does get easier to estimate but of course it's not 100% accurate.
  • litsy3
    litsy3 Posts: 783 Member
    I weigh the batch and then save the recipe as 100g per serving (no matter how big or small an actual serving is). So if it's 890g I save it as 8.9 servings, etc. Then I just weigh however much I'm having each time and log that.
  • michelleepotter
    michelleepotter Posts: 800 Member
    This is really annoying to do, but it is the most accurate way that I have found:

    - Weigh the pot before you start cooking and record. (I use grams for added accuracy)
    - Weigh the final completed dish in the original pot.
    - Subtract the recorded weight of the pot.
    - Divide by the number of servings you want and record the approx weight of a serving in the recipe title on MFP.

    This, except that I weighed all my pots, pans, and dishes, wrote it all down, and printed it to hang on my fridge.

    Secondly, I put the weight of the meal as servings. So a meal that is 3050 grams is 3050 servings. When I eat 300 grams, I just put in 300 servings. Easy.
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