Mashed potatoes

jamesnexusseven
jamesnexusseven Posts: 16 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hello,

I am struggling to create my recipe for mashed potatoes for my diary.

I can't just go by weight because the potatoes have been cooked in water. How would I work out the nutritional information? I am adding a little margarine and milk too. Thank you.

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  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    edited September 2018
    It's kind of hard since you already cooked them, but you can estimate, and then weigh raw the next time. For the next time, what you can do is weigh the individual ingredients and enter that into the recipe builder (to get total calories for the whole amount). Once the food is prepared, weigh the whole thing. Set the number of servings in the recipe tracker as that weight (so if it weighs 126grams, set it as 126 servings). Then, when you take a serving, weigh it. The amount of weight (for example, a scoop might be 40 grams) is the amount of servings you log for that meal.
  • jamesnexusseven
    jamesnexusseven Posts: 16 Member
    hesn92 wrote: »
    I created a recipe for my mashed potatoes. I weighed the potatoes raw and entered that weight in the ingredients. When it was all done, I weighed the whole thing and that was my total # of servings.
    RelCanonical wrote: »
    It's kind of hard since you already cooked them, but you can estimate, and then weigh raw the next time. For the next time, what you can do is weigh the individual ingredients and enter that into the recipe builder (to get total calories for the whole amount). Once the food is prepared, weigh the whole thing. Set the number of servings in the recipe tracker as that weight (so if it weighs 126grams, set it as 126 servings). Then, when you take a serving, weigh it. The amount of weight (for example, a scoop might be 40 grams) is the amount of servings you log for that meal.

    I see now that this is the only real way to do it. I shall do it next time. This time though, as I've cooked the whole bag, I've used the estimated weight. As accurate as I'm going to get it.

    Thank you for the help.
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    i'm not sure what the cooked in water has to do with being unable to build a recipe

    enter potato weight raw for your ingredients and then base the servings off the cooked weight - personally, i make my serving size equivalent to the weight of the cooked product in oz - so if its 20oz, i make it 20 servings, then i just weight out however much i want and go
  • ritzvin
    ritzvin Posts: 2,860 Member
    jamesnexusseven wrote: »
    Hello,

    I am struggling to create my recipe for mashed potatoes for my diary.

    I can't just go by weight because the potatoes have been cooked in water. How would I work out the nutritional information? I am adding a little margarine and milk too. Thank you.

    Use the entry for boiled potatoes (assuming your issue is that you've already boiled the potatoes before weighing them, and also assuming they were boiled, not roasted/etc).
  • ConnieT1030
    ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
    edited September 2018
    RelCanonical wrote: »
    For the next time, what you can do is weigh the individual ingredients and enter that into the recipe builder (to get total calories for the whole amount). Once the food is prepared, weigh the whole thing. Set the number of servings in the recipe tracker as that weight (so if it weighs 126grams, set it as 126 servings). Then, when you take a serving, weigh it. The amount of weight (for example, a scoop might be 40 grams) is the amount of servings you log for that meal.

    Thanks for that! Ive been doing MFP for almost two years and never figured that out! d'oh! I did it the long way, but the recipe tracker would be so much easier that way. never too late to learn :smiley:
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    ConnieT1030 wrote: »
    RelCanonical wrote: »
    For the next time, what you can do is weigh the individual ingredients and enter that into the recipe builder (to get total calories for the whole amount). Once the food is prepared, weigh the whole thing. Set the number of servings in the recipe tracker as that weight (so if it weighs 126grams, set it as 126 servings). Then, when you take a serving, weigh it. The amount of weight (for example, a scoop might be 40 grams) is the amount of servings you log for that meal.

    Thanks for that! Ive been doing MFP for almost two years and never figured that out! d'oh! I did it the long way, but the recipe tracker would be so much easier that way. never too late to learn :smiley:

    I've been doing it that way for so long. It's great for leftovers as well. Just grab however much you want and weigh that portion.
  • jamesnexusseven
    jamesnexusseven Posts: 16 Member
    deannalfisher wrote: »
    i'm not sure what the cooked in water has to do with being unable to build a recipe

    enter potato weight raw for your ingredients and then base the servings off the cooked weight - personally, i make my serving size equivalent to the weight of the cooked product in oz - so if its 20oz, i make it 20 servings, then i just weight out however much i want and go

    The tatos were already cooking before I thought about weighing them. I planned to weigh them after, until I realised my mistake.
    ritzvin wrote: »

    Use the entry for boiled potatoes (assuming your issue is that you've already boiled the potatoes before weighing them, and also assuming they were boiled, not roasted/etc).

    Thank you, wish I had done this tbh. I've managed to roughly work it out.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    It's best to go with raw weight, but there is an entry for "potatoes, boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, with salt" (search for that in the database). It's reasonably accurate if weighing raw is not an option.

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