Help with recipe builder, how the heck do I...
ckfox95
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So Hubby is making his famous pot roast in the crock pot for dinner tonight. I know what is going into it but how do I build it on the recipe builder so I know how many servings there are and how many calories in a serving? Can I weigh it all after it's cooked? I have no idea how many potatoes, carrots, etc. is going in there...help!!
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Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings0 -
Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
This.
Also, if you create the recipe in grams, you will always get a "1 gm" option for if you have a really strange portion such as 110 grams. I love the recipe builder.0 -
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If possible, weigh the finished product. Sometimes I have to dump it into Tupperware. Other times, I put a whatchamacallit (the hot pads) on the scale and tare and put the baking dish on the scale - for this to work, you need to weigh the baking dish before cooking so you can subtract that weight. And if you have two of the same dish, weigh the one you're using - sometimes they're different! I have a list of all my stuff and what it weighs, but if I have two, I weigh the one I'm going to use.
Everyone else covered the rest.
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I would probably log the meat as one recipe and log the potatoes/carrots separately to make it easier.
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As has been said above. Except I just work out the volume of the full bit of the pan (easier if its round!) then divide by volume of my ladle to work out number of servings. Saves scraping hot food into another container to weigh.0
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Oh also, is that recipe trademarked? Can you not just ask your husband how many carrots etc went in?0
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Ok, that's a big help. Thanks everyone! I know how much of each ingredient went in. The only thing I didn't do was get to weigh everything before it was all cooked so that part will be more of a guesstimate. I do know the weight of the meat if that helps haha!0
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Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
How in any one's mind is this worthy of an abuse flag?0 -
daniwilford wrote: »Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
How in any one's mind is this worthy of an abuse flag?
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OP, I weigh each thing prior to it going in and guesstimate the number of servings there will be (this can be changed later if it turns out there are more or less).0
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Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
Thanks for that breakdown. Where do you get 100g= 1 serving? Is that average? My challenge is once I have a cooked recipe i'm not really sure how to break down the servings.
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mhaskins08 wrote: »Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
Thanks for that breakdown. Where do you get 100g= 1 serving? Is that average? My challenge is once I have a cooked recipe i'm not really sure how to break down the servings.
No I use that because I never know how much I am going to want to eat and I tend to batch cook so have leftovers
then if I go to take 500g I can log 5 servings so I know in my head 1 = 100g (and any other amount eg if I want 275g I'd put 2.75 servings in)
It's just convenience - some people log it as 1g but I find that's too small
But LOL that my original post got flagged as abuse - ridiculous things are ridiculous :bismile:0 -
mhaskins08 wrote: »Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
Thanks for that breakdown. Where do you get 100g= 1 serving? Is that average? My challenge is once I have a cooked recipe i'm not really sure how to break down the servings.
No I use that because I never know how much I am going to want to eat and I tend to batch cook so have leftovers
then if I go to take 500g I can log 5 servings so I know in my head 1 = 100g (and any other amount eg if I want 275g I'd put 2.75 servings in)
It's just convenience - some people log it as 1g but I find that's too small
But LOL that my original post got flagged as abuse - ridiculous things are ridiculous :bismile:
I thought your post was great. Certainly, it was an accident, right?
I wish that I could see the original ingredients from my recipes so that I can change them as needed. It would make things so much easier.0 -
daniwilford wrote: »Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
How in any one's mind is this worthy of an abuse flag?
Probably they thought it was a Like button. Flagger - you can flag it again to make the flag go away.0 -
mhaskins08 wrote: »Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
Thanks for that breakdown. Where do you get 100g= 1 serving? Is that average? My challenge is once I have a cooked recipe i'm not really sure how to break down the servings.
No I use that because I never know how much I am going to want to eat and I tend to batch cook so have leftovers
then if I go to take 500g I can log 5 servings so I know in my head 1 = 100g (and any other amount eg if I want 275g I'd put 2.75 servings in)
It's just convenience - some people log it as 1g but I find that's too small
But LOL that my original post got flagged as abuse - ridiculous things are ridiculous :bismile:
I thought your post was great. Certainly, it was an accident, right?
I wish that I could see the original ingredients from my recipes so that I can change them as needed. It would make things so much easier.
In the app (iOS) it's really easy to edit ingredients ...I do it a lot0 -
Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
This is what I do, except I go by ounces just because that's how my "Americanized" brain thinks about servings 0 -
mhaskins08 wrote: »Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
Thanks for that breakdown. Where do you get 100g= 1 serving? Is that average? My challenge is once I have a cooked recipe i'm not really sure how to break down the servings.
I use the entire weight of the cooked dish as the number of servings. That means the recipe knows the calories per gram of what I've cooked. Then whatever portion I weigh out for myself - i.e., I put 150 grams on my plate - is how many servings I enter in my diary. Makes it easy to just take whatever portion size works for me.0 -
Ok, that's a big help. Thanks everyone! I know how much of each ingredient went in. The only thing I didn't do was get to weigh everything before it was all cooked so that part will be more of a guesstimate. I do know the weight of the meat if that helps haha!
I forget to weigh things all the time as I'm cooking, but I don't worry too much about vegetables, which aren't very calorie-intensive anyway. A good cup estimate will do. The weight of the meat is far more important.0 -
mhaskins08 wrote: »Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
Thanks for that breakdown. Where do you get 100g= 1 serving? Is that average? My challenge is once I have a cooked recipe i'm not really sure how to break down the servings.
If you're cooking from a recipe, you can use the # of servings it suggests, but I'll often experiment on the recipe builder and find a serving size that has what I feel to be a reasonable # of calories, and then divide the weight of the finished dish by that number. And I wholeheartedly recommend keeping a list of the weight of all of your pots & pans on the fridge! Drives me insane to cook a big dish and realize I can't get an accurate weight for it!0 -
I log the number of grams as the number of servings. No math required, no having to wonder what a 'serving is'... Put plate on scale, put food, enter the number of servings, done.0
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I log the number of grams as the number of servings. No math required, no having to wonder what a 'serving is'... Put plate on scale, put food, enter the number of servings, done.
You can only do this when first creating the recipe though, right? This is one of my biggest gripes with the recipe builder... i don't know the total weight of my recipe until it's all assembled, so i don't know what to enter as total number of servings when I'm creating my recipe from the start of the process.0 -
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Protranser wrote: »I log the number of grams as the number of servings. No math required, no having to wonder what a 'serving is'... Put plate on scale, put food, enter the number of servings, done.
You can only do this when first creating the recipe though, right? This is one of my biggest gripes with the recipe builder... i don't know the total weight of my recipe until it's all assembled, so i don't know what to enter as total number of servings when I'm creating my recipe from the start of the process.
No, you can edit the weight/serving size any time, just as you can edit any ingredient. I do it all the time! When you're done cooking just tap the pen icon at the top of your recipe and you're able to change the servings.0 -
Protranser wrote: »I log the number of grams as the number of servings. No math required, no having to wonder what a 'serving is'... Put plate on scale, put food, enter the number of servings, done.
You can only do this when first creating the recipe though, right? This is one of my biggest gripes with the recipe builder... i don't know the total weight of my recipe until it's all assembled, so i don't know what to enter as total number of servings when I'm creating my recipe from the start of the process.
No, you can edit the number of servings (at least you can on the website; I don't know about the app since I don't use it).
There was a while after they rolled out the "new" recipe builder when you couldn't edit the name of the recipe, which was a pain for me, b/c my approach was to put the serving size in the name of the recipe (e.g., eggplant and garbanzo stew, srvg = 105 g), so the info would be there for me when I logged it. It's really helpful for when you want to use an old recipe as a starting point, rather than having to find all of your ingredient entries in the database all over again, but you might be substituting some ingredients or using different amounts, because you have different stuff on hand or you just want to experiment. The weight of the final dish might be different the next time I make it, so a serving of a 10-serving stew might no longer be 105 g, but I can just edit the title to say "eggplant and garbanzo stew, srvg = 125 g" or alternatively change the number of servings to 12.
I'm not crazy about the 1 g serving size approach, b/c unless your recipe is for a blend of different oils, with no other ingredients, you won't see any meaningful information about the nutrients in a 1 g serving. During the time when you couldn't edit the recipe name, and I used the 1 g serving approach, I don't think I ever had a single recipe that didn't have zeros all across the board for the nutrients in a single gram.0 -
Thanks everyone, I'll experiment with the recipe builder more. It has great potential for logging, i just need to understand it better0
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Thanks for that breakdown. Where do you get 100g= 1 serving? Is that average? My challenge is once I have a cooked recipe i'm not really sure how to break down the servings.
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Good question! I'm still a bit confused on that too.
Can anyone help?kshama2001 wrote: »daniwilford wrote: »Weigh everything raw before putting it in
Log everything in the recipe builder one by one
Cook dish
Weigh entire cooked dish
Divide by the number of 100g portions that equals a serving
When you come to eat it log it as the number of 100g servings you took eg 350g =3.5 servings
How in any one's mind is this worthy of an abuse flag?
Probably they thought it was a Like button. Flagger - you can flag it again to make the flag go away.
Who flagged it as abuse? That's not right. I think it was a mistake, no way it's abuse...
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