Measuring Family Recipe

Minormia1201
Minormia1201 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 24 in Food and Nutrition
Please advise on measuring family recipes?

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  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    Enter the ingredients into the MFP recipe builder tool. It will calculate the nutritional info for you.
  • Minormia1201
    Minormia1201 Posts: 4 Member
    edited February 2018
    Thank you, I sured have clarified. When inputting recipes for family recipe. Do you input all the servings or just your individual portion? Just for accuracy purposes?
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    If you're wondering how to portion after the recipe is entered and the dish is cooked, weigh the entire (finished) product in grams and use the total weight in grams as your number of servings in the recipe builder (this is admittedly easier for some things and others). Then weigh your portion and enter that weight as your number of servings.

    Apologies if this isn't at all what you were asking. It's still a bit unclear.
  • amelisegb
    amelisegb Posts: 58 Member
    I enter the entire recipe into the "recipe builder" tool - there is an option to set how many servings your recipe makes. For example I enter in a banana muffin recipe, I put in every ingredient for the entire batch and then I can say it makes 12 servings (or however many you got from the batter). When logging, you can choose 1 serving or however many of the muffins you actually ate.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    pinuplove wrote: »
    If you're wondering how to portion after the recipe is entered and the dish is cooked, weigh the entire (finished) product in grams and use the total weight in grams as your number of servings in the recipe builder (this is admittedly easier for some things and others). Then weigh your portion and enter that weight as your number of servings.

    Apologies if this isn't at all what you were asking. It's still a bit unclear.

    This is the most accurate way to do it. Be sure to weigh the container that the finished dish will be in before you start cooking so you can subtract that from the dish's final weight!
  • Azercord
    Azercord Posts: 573 Member
    We usually have two methods. If it is something like a soup we will weight it out after it is done and do servings as per ounce. If it is something like a baked dish we will do servings as the number of portions it is cut into, this isn't as accurate but as long as you measured what went into the dish accurately the end result should be fairly close.
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