Recipe Builder vs. Manual entry

honeybee739
honeybee739 Posts: 66 Member
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Do you use the recipe builder or just enter your food in manually? I have been doing both. I have found when I import a recipe from a website, MFP always calculates the calorie count higher, sometimes 100-200 calories more! I have all of the numbers/servings correct. Then when I manually enter the same recipe, under dinner let's say, then the calorie count is lower or closer to accurate. Should I just manually enter everything in? I like the idea of the recipes because then I just have to enter it in one time and then use it again. But not if the calories are going to be way off.

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  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    When you import, you still have to verify each ingredient. Differing brands have differing calories and/or serving sizes. So, you pretty much have to manually input even imported entries.
  • marsinah1
    marsinah1 Posts: 106 Member
    What Kami said. When I import recipes there's almost always 1 or 2 things that are matched incorrectly, even when brands and quantities are specified.
  • ladipoet
    ladipoet Posts: 4,180 Member
    Ditto what has already been said above. I usually just enter everything manually. The bar code scanning feature comes in handy there though which sometimes makes entering a recipe manually a little less tedious.

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