calories counting question in recipes

barilo123
barilo123 Posts: 9 Member
edited November 27 in Getting Started
Hi
I made some food in "bulk",
it has

2 white baking potatoes from sainsburies 374g
sanisburies cod (not an exact measure cos I cooked it and ate a bit and measured then but) 182g
cheese(chevington light grated cheese) 130g
hellmans real mayonaise 55g

I want to see the calories of the bulk meal thing.. And the calories for the individual bowls that I divide it into.

The above ingredients get divided into 2 bowls.

In the following pic, I had entered the info for the bulk meal

Then tried halving the grams and entering the data and labelling it one meal.

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The strange thing is that one is not double the other. as you see from the pic above, where the bulk meal measures at 1205 calories, and the single meal measures at 641 calories. Though 641*2=1282!

Below is a pic of the single bowl, followed by a pic of the bulk meal


Here is the single bowl

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Here is the bulk meal

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Apart from anything else, you have 100g of cheese in one and 65 in the other. 65 isn't half of 100....
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member

    TavistockToad wrote: »
    Apart from anything else, you have 100g of cheese in one and 65 in the other. 65 isn't half of 100....

    ^^This.

    But, for future reference, you could just log 0.5 servings of the bulk recipe -- there was no need to create a meal for half that amount. You're doing twice the work, and creating additional opportunities for errors (although it appears your error actually occurred in creating the original bulk recipe, since your OP says you used 130 g of cheese, but the bulk recipe only shows 100 g of cheese).
  • motivatedmartha
    motivatedmartha Posts: 1,108 Member
    Typically you enter all the ingredients in uncooked form into the recipe builder and then indicate the number of servings the recipe should make. If you are using a recipe off the internet you can simply upload the url for the recipe and then make sure each ingredient is matched. If it is for a big bulk cook, eg stew, bologanise, chilli etc, I then weigh the total batch and divide by the number of servings. That gives me the weight of the food in one portion.
    Above comments cover the cod meal :smiley:
  • barilo123
    barilo123 Posts: 9 Member
    Many thanks all of you. I have fixed the calories, it was the grams pf cheese and the type of mayo.. Now all the grams correlate right too, and the calories.

    I put the recipe in stating how many servings it makes, and while it only shows calories per serving, that's ok, I can always multiply servings by calories per serving if I want to see the total for the entire bulk cooking.

  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member
    barilo123 wrote: »
    Many thanks all of you. I have fixed the calories, it was the grams pf cheese and the type of mayo.. Now all the grams correlate right too, and the calories.

    I put the recipe in stating how many servings it makes, and while it only shows calories per serving, that's ok, I can always multiply servings by calories per serving if I want to see the total for the entire bulk cooking.

    On the website, you can see the nutritional information for the entire recipe as you're creating it or by clicking on edit for a previously created recipe.
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