Serving Help

wildcard29
wildcard29 Posts: 322 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I made a meatloaf and entered it into the receipe calc. How do I know how many servings it will be? How do I weigh the servings?. I know I used 40 ounces of extra lean ground turkey but I added veggies to it , an egg, and bread crumbs so I assume I can't weigh the cooked product and divide by the 40. I'm so confused please help!

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  • dragonbug300
    dragonbug300 Posts: 760 Member
    I would calculate the calories of the ingredients separately, then add them together. Divide by a number of calories that seems reasonable for one serving of meatloaf, and then you get how many servings that loaf will make. Then you can divide the meatloaf accordingly.
  • merrillfoster
    merrillfoster Posts: 855 Member
    It's however many servings you make it. If you divide in in 4ths, it's 4 servings. 5ths, 5 servings. Etc. Put in each ingredient separately (40 oz ground turkey, 1 egg, etc), enter however many servings you divided it into, and viola!
  • MobiusMan
    MobiusMan Posts: 385 Member
    meat portion servings are generally about 4 oz. so it would be ten servings. Enter that in the number of people served and it'll do the rest. The harder part is making sure you are honest when judging served size. I actually weigh all the stuff wet in a new recipe and use that number divided by the number of servings decided by the major constituent of the dish. In your case 10. So, when all is said and done, if the loaf weighs 48oz then a serving would be 4.8...make sense?
  • suprjewels
    suprjewels Posts: 507
    I do this :)
    It's however many servings you make it. If you divide in in 4ths, it's 4 servings. 5ths, 5 servings. Etc. Put in each ingredient separately (40 oz ground turkey, 1 egg, etc), enter however many servings you divided it into, and viola!
  • AmeMahoney
    AmeMahoney Posts: 232
    I make my meatloaf in my muffin pan. I calculated the totals the same way people are suggesting, and then I just eat 2 or 3 of them whenever.

    Mini meatloafs are the best - everyone gets an "end" piece, which, in this case, is the "top."
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