Determining Serving Size

drnisley
drnisley Posts: 13 Member
edited November 2024 in Recipes
When building a recipe how do you determine a serving size?

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  • psmd
    psmd Posts: 764 Member
    Decide how many calories you want in each serving. Sometimes if the calories are too high I increase the number of servings, which makes the serving size smaller.
  • Ice_Arrows
    Ice_Arrows Posts: 46 Member
    edited February 2015
    Try dividing it into as equal portions as possible in different containers after its made. Then change the number of servings to the number of containers? Works for me, 1 serving = 1 container
  • drnisley
    drnisley Posts: 13 Member
    Thank you.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    psmd wrote: »
    Decide how many calories you want in each serving. Sometimes if the calories are too high I increase the number of servings, which makes the serving size smaller.

    This is what I do too, sort of! Is the recipe for dinner, I'll eat more of it if, if it is for another meal, I'll eat less. Or combine with another food.

  • jessjess210
    jessjess210 Posts: 91 Member
    Figure out the calories in the whole recipe. Weigh whatever dish you are going to serve it in empty. Then put it in the dish and weigh again. Subtract the first number from the second (full-empty). This will give you total ounces or grams of the dish. Use this as the total number of "servings". For example 30 oz. Then use 1oz as a serving and go from there. If you aren't using the recipe builder then take the total calories and divide by how many ounces you have. This will tell you how many calories in one ounce
  • Khukhullatus
    Khukhullatus Posts: 361 Member
    If it's something reasonable to cut, say lasagna or something along those lines, I just take the total calories and then start cutting the thing in half until I get a number that is in the ballpark I want. If you look at things like ice cream in my fridge, I look insane because they're all sliced into halves then quarters then eights. You get the idea.
  • drnisley
    drnisley Posts: 13 Member
    Thank you everyone. My husband made home spaghetti sauce. I went ahead a weighed the whole thing when done. I ended up making the serving to be whatever calories I wanted it to be.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited February 2015
    drnisley wrote: »
    Thank you everyone. My husband made home spaghetti sauce. I went ahead a weighed the whole thing when done. I ended up making the serving to be whatever calories I wanted it to be.

    Yes! That's my girl! I think that is the essence of MFP - tweak diet to fit you, not the other way around (like most "dieting-diets").
  • drnisley
    drnisley Posts: 13 Member

    Yes! That's my girl! I think that is the essence of MFP - tweak diet to fit you, not the other way around (like most "dieting-diets").[/quote]

    Thank you for your encouraging words.
  • mscheftg
    mscheftg Posts: 485 Member
    stoptakingnames wrote: »
    Try dividing it into as equal portions as possible in different containers after its made. Then change the number of servings to the number of containers? Works for me, 1 serving = 1 container

    For the most part, this is what I do when I make a recipe.
  • mulletmaggie
    mulletmaggie Posts: 8 Member
    i still dont get it :( i made a HUGE batch of Cauliflower 'Potato' Salad, and I havent even ate it yet because I am unsure how to divy it up.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I weigh the whole thing and 1 serving is 1g... so it's easy to figure out how much my portion is.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    I use cups, but generally I stopped using the recipe thing because it's such a pain to alter recipes.
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