Weighing food!!

Always weigh raw to be the most accurate. How you cook food affects the calorie count.

For the most part, you want to weigh raw. But be careful in that some of the MFP entries are for cooked product. So you want to use the same form that the entry is.

You need to include cooking oil, butter and such as well as the food. Spices don't add enough calories to be worth tracking (in my opinion). Condiments need to be tracked.

Bacon is the toughest one. It really depends on how well it's cooked. The same piece of bacon cooked crisp is less calories that how I like mine, but the raw entry is kinda meaningless as so much of the fat is not consumed.

If making a large dish, use the recipe builder to get the total for the raw ingredients, then weigh the final dish or split it into portions to get what the cooked portion has for calories.