Food in quantities PLEASE!

paulbb23
paulbb23 Posts: 2
edited November 14 in Food and Nutrition

Hi all,

Can you pelase put quanitiy options when logging food?

I had 500gm of chilli con canre, homemade, did it myself. I went to log it and I;ve got optinos of one "cup" or one "container" - how much is in a cup? How much is a portion? I could have had 6 portions for all I know!

Using the word "portion" is pointless when cups come in differenet sizes!

P.

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  • paulbb23
    paulbb23 Posts: 2
    EDIT - sry, wrong forum!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,250 Member
    If it is homemade, you should be putting it in the recipe builder and adding it from there, otherwise it doesn't really matter what portion you log, it won't be accurate. You have no idea how someone else made theirs and the calorie variance can be massive.
  • patols1
    patols1 Posts: 108 Member
    one cup is 8 ounces, when they say 1 cup they mean 1 measuring cup, not coffee cup. hope this helps.
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    This is when you should use your recipe builder. You can plug in your own ingredients and measurements so you can log accurately. I use it for my homemade recipes.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    That's why you should enter your own recipes. If it's something you made at home it's not going to be the same as someone else's homemade option anyway. You have to select how many servings you want it to have, so there are two ways to do it by weight. Either enter the number of grams it made as the serving size (so if it made 944 grams you'd enter it as 944 servings) or enter that you want it to have 4 servings (or whatever) and then divide your total weight by that many servings to get your weight per serving.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Make your own recipe and use grams. Done.
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