How to track macros of casseroles or a dish with multiple ingredients ???

dortiher
dortiher Posts: 2 Member
edited November 22 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello everyone I was wondering if anyone can help me.
I don know how I would go about tracking macros in a dish with multiple ingredients.
Let's say I make a dish to last me multiple days and I put turkey, potatoes, tomatoes, onions and mix it all together.
How would I know how many servings of each ingredient I'm getting or estimate it??
Sorry if this is a dumb question I'm not that good with tracking macros anyways thanks.

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  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    I usually put foods like casseroles in as a recipe, you know the quantities of the ingredients used and how many servings it makes, then just put a serving down for your meal and mfp has done it for you easy!
  • dortiher
    dortiher Posts: 2 Member
    Lol wow didn't know you could do that thanks a lot you were big help!!!
  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    dortiher wrote: »
    Lol wow didn't know you could do that thanks a lot you were big help!!!

    you're quite welcome :)
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Duchy82 wrote: »
    I usually put foods like casseroles in as a recipe, you know the quantities of the ingredients used and how many servings it makes, then just put a serving down for your meal and mfp has done it for you easy!

    Yes to recipe builder (on the app you can also edit)

    But weigh the finished cooked dish, once cooled adequately and log it as the number (rounded up) of 100g servings in it

    That way if you eat 350g you log 3.5 servings etc
  • daniellepstewart209
    daniellepstewart209 Posts: 32 Member
    I thought the recepie builder in the app still had bugs. The individual portions were coming out lower than they are. I just write down quantities of the ingredients and add them together. Weigh your portions you can work out from there x but if the app is fixed then atleast people would be able to see what I'm making?!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I use the recipe builder too... Enter everything before I cook it, then weigh the whole thing and put the number of grams as the number of servings.

    Obviously it's won't be accurate as you might get more meat and less veggies in your portion, but it's really the best you can do.
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