Homemade Recipes

I would weigh/measure each individual item and enter it in MFP. After you're all done, save it as a meal.

i use the recipe builder for everything. even if i deviate from a recipe, its not by enough to make significant difference.

weigh out everything.
cook
divide into number of servings
done

Helpful hint from someone on here in the past to help with the Recipe Builder... I weighed my pots & dishes empty and wrote down those weights (in grams is easier) in a little notebook that I keep in the kitchen with the calculator on my phone and my scale. While I'm cooking I jot down and enter in MFP. When the dish is cooked, I weigh the whole dish (pot and all), subtract the weight of the pot, then divide by the number of servings. I enter the serving weight either in my notebook or a sticky that I put on the leftovers. Also, if you find a recipe online, you can just copy the recipe link and paste it in the Recipe Importer. You usually have to clean up the ingredients a bit.

You can just log the recipe into your diary. I cook a lot and my family (watching calories also) know how many calories they are eating. It seems like a lot of trouble but I have a few go-to recipes that I use over and over or I might just have to go in a tweak an ingredient if I change it.