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    • Posts: 3,380 Member
      sarahstarr0416 wrote: »
      So let me get this straight, because I think I've been doing this wrong the whole time. I weigh the bowl first that I'm cooking it in so I can subtract that out. Then after I put all of my ingredients, I take the total weight and make that the serving size? Then what am I measuring in my individual bowl when I'm ready to eat an actual serving. How do I then break that down? Sorry, I'm completely confused right now.

      Weigh and enter your raw ingredients in the recipe builder. Cook and weigh the total weight of your cooked dish, subtracting the weight of the pan.
      Set your servings as the gram weight of the cooked food minus the pan.
      When you plate yours, weigh that amount and log that number of 1g servings.
    • Posts: 7,724 Member
      sarahstarr0416 wrote: »
      So let me get this straight, because I think I've been doing this wrong the whole time. I weigh the bowl first that I'm cooking it in so I can subtract that out. Then after I put all of my ingredients, I take the total weight and make that the serving size? Then what am I measuring in my individual bowl when I'm ready to eat an actual serving. How do I then break that down? Sorry, I'm completely confused right now.

      What @Queenmunchy said.

      Example: You're done cooking. Total weight of the entire batch is 2539g. You record that as the number of servings in your recipe

      It's time for dinner. You serve yourself 423g. Log 423 servings of your recipe. Tada! MFP does all the math for you in calculating calories and nutrients.
    • Posts: 14,696 Member
      edited January 2017
      JaneiR36 wrote: »
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      They covered some options for this on one topic. I believe one of the coolest ones was a poster that said she tares a little bowl and sets her plate of food on top of it! I always just nudged the plate to one side. Long as the plate doesn't fall off, I get a good weight and can view the #'s. But if you're gonna get yet another scale it needs to solve all scale related problems, amirite???

      U'z right. Else gimpy current scale workz gutnuff ;)

      I use my fry's cocoa "tube" as my tall stand as it is sitting on my counter together with cinnamon to be sprinkled on **kitten** as the mood strikes ;-)
    • Posts: 121 Member
      edited January 2017
      JaneiR36 wrote: »
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      What @Queenmunchy said.

      Example: You're done cooking. Total weight of the entire batch is 2539g. You record that as the number of servings in your recipe

      It's time for dinner. You serve yourself 423g. Log 423 servings of your recipe. Tada! MFP does all the math for you in calculating calories and nutrients.

      Ooohhhh! I am so doing this from now on. I always estimated how many servings and hoped I did it right, yikes! Now I can be legit on my recipes, yay! Thanks!

    • Posts: 121 Member
      edited January 2017
      Edited to delete my last question. Figured it out! Thanks!
    • Posts: 2,564 Member
      daves05 wrote: »
      So I made some homemade chili I entered all the ingredients in the recipe section but I don't know how many servings is actually in there how can I figured this out by weight and not serving size?

      When I've done a big pot recipe I entered all the ingredients in the recipe tool and when done cooking, I transferred it to another pot (or storage containers) using a large multi cup measurer. You can quickly transfer the whole thing and then know it's volume. I ended up with like 12 cups, which was then the number of servings entered in the MFP recipe, easy for me to track as I ate it over the week.
    • Posts: 22 Member
      Why can't MFP give the serving amount in oz's too instead of one serving? I might eat less than a serving, it might be a quarter, or half. It just doesn't help me to measure the amount of food that I eat when it says 1 serving.
    • Posts: 5,600 Member
      because that is how the person who inputed the record made it...which is why we are recommending building a recipe and putting the number of servings to correlate to the weight in g's
    • Posts: 1,106 Member
      If you dont eat a full serving, then you can change the serving size to .5, .25 or any fraction of the serving.
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