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charchar35
charchar35 Posts: 2 Member
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How do you figure out nutrition values when you use a recipe from a cookbook?? I recently made a delicious casserole but I don't know how to put it in my food diary due to not knowing how much of each ingredient. Hope someone understands what I mean...any help would be awesome...Thank you :)

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  • ptsmiles
    ptsmiles Posts: 511 Member
    Input the recipe into mfp. That is what I have been doing. You'll have to put the ingredients manually. The recipe doesn't say how much of each ingredient to add?
  • charchar35
    charchar35 Posts: 2 Member
    ptsmiles wrote: »
    Input the recipe into mfp. That is what I have been doing. You'll have to put the ingredients manually. The recipe doesn't say how much of each ingredient to add?

    It does but....recipe called for 1/2c milk, 1 can cream of chicken soup, 16 oz bag of frozen green beans...I know serving size of green beans is 1/2c and I know I didn't get 1/2 c....just curious if there was a way to figure how to add to diary without having to list each indiviually
  • denaallen1000
    denaallen1000 Posts: 6 Member
    Crazyravr* charchar35 just maybe new to this whole thing...you know most of us awesome cookers were brought up how to cook with no measuring cups, spoons or those fancy food weight scales. Granny did a dash of this and a dash of that until it was good. Charchar35 unfortunately to get an accurate count you will have to put in all ingredients. You might Google a recipe similar to the one you are making and grab the nutritional facts from the one and start there. Hope that helps.
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    @charchar35 - there is a built in recipe builder in MFP. Go to FOODS and RECIPES so you can input your recipe and divide by servings.

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