casseroles and slowcook meals

nancijon
nancijon Posts: 4 Member
edited November 27 in Food and Nutrition
I have a problem with the number of servings these make..I eyeball it, but not sure of the calorie counts due to not knowing how much, meat, vegtables , pasta etc I am actually getting...any suggestions???

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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Are you using the recipe builder feature in MFP?

    Once you have the total calories in the entire 'meal', then you (ideally) would weigh the total, and then weigh your portion to figure out the calories in your portion.

    Example - ingredients add up to 2000 calories in the whole dish. The whole dish weighs 800 grams, and your portion weighs out to 200 grams. So you ate 1/4 of the whole, or 500 calories.
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    Weigh each ingredient before cooking. Then weigh the final product. Either entering the servings as the whole thing in grams like 1226 servings. And say you eat 338 grams so that is 338servings.
  • nancijon
    nancijon Posts: 4 Member
    I do weigh each ingredient......so I guess I shouldn't actually worry about how much meat or veggies I am getting, just like you said, 1/4 or 1/2 , etc...
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    nancijon wrote: »
    I do weigh each ingredient......so I guess I shouldn't actually worry about how much meat or veggies I am getting, just like you said, 1/4 or 1/2 , etc...

    Yeah, I mean of course if the dish isn't uniformly mixed some portions may get slightly more meat, some more potatoes (for example) etc...but at that point - at least in my opinion - you're just splitting hairs.
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