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Creating a meal and type in weight

LazyQtip
LazyQtip Posts: 4 Member
edited December 2024 in Getting Started
Have tried recipes area, and my food area, and have not found this.
Making a meal weighting everything is fine, however is only I eat a portion of it, how do I enter that? I can see under recipes there is an option to enter how many servings, but portions is different.

Is it possible to enter the ingrediences, and then type in how much weight of the end result I am consuming?

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  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    a few options:
    1 - if it's just you, and you will be eating all the portions, i just plop it in more or less equal containers and enter the number of containers as servings. cuz you'll be eating them all anyway so if you're off one day it'll be compensated for later

    2 - weigh the finished product. all of it. cooked.
    put the weight as the number of portions (total) for recipe
    weigh the portion you will eat and put that as the number of portions in your diary.
  • LazyQtip
    LazyQtip Posts: 4 Member
    Thanks :) a little walk around, and a little annoying (for me) but thanks for the second option also, will be handy in the future :)
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    edited June 2019
    nm. I don't think the answer I posted was what you were asking.
  • LazyQtip
    LazyQtip Posts: 4 Member
    It's good, was hoping I could put in all ingrediense and weight of those, then write I eat like 100g of the combined meal, and not "a serving", so as far I can see, was a good answer :)
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,128 Member
    edited June 2019
    LazyQtip wrote: »
    It's good, was hoping I could put in all ingrediense and weight of those, then write I eat like 100g of the combined meal, and not "a serving", so as far I can see, was a good answer :)

    You can put a different number than "1" in the box for number of servings when you log. If you know the entire finished recipe weighed 900 g, and you told MFP it served 9 people when you created the recipe, then each serving would be 100 g, and "1 serving" would be correct when you logged if you were eating 100 g. But if you decided to eat 175 g, then you would log it as 1.75 g.

    Is that what you're asking about?


    Edited to add additional phrases in hopes of being really clear.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,128 Member
    When I create a recipe and decide how many servings it will be, I put the serving size in the name of the recipe. So, if I make a pot of chili and the cooked chili weighs 900 g, I might tell MFP it serves 6 people or makes 9 servings (however it's worded in the recipe widget), and then name it "Black bean chili, srvg = 150 g". I do it this way because I like to see per serving nutritional information that is meaningful to me because the serving the size is somewhere in the ballpark of an amount I might eat at one sitting.

    Lots of people will always tell MFP that the recipes serves a number of people equal to the weight of the finished recipe in grams, and then when they eat it and log it, they say they ate a number of servings equal to the weight of their portion in grams. This has the advantage of always being the same approach for every recipe, so it's very simple once you get used to it, and never any arithmetic involved.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    I would enter all the ingredients, save it as a meal, then enter the portion of the meal you're going to eat as .05, for half, as an example.
  • LazyQtip
    LazyQtip Posts: 4 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    and then name it "Black bean chili, srvg = 150 g".

    Ahh thanks, that is a nice idea :)

  • sefajane1
    sefajane1 Posts: 322 Member
    LazyQtip wrote: »
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    and then name it "Black bean chili, srvg = 150 g".

    Ahh thanks, that is a nice idea :)

    I always do that; after the recipe name & date I add "1g = 1 Serving"
  • JBaltimore85
    JBaltimore85 Posts: 2 Member
    I really struggled with counting calories in the beginning because most of what I eat is homemade (spaghetti sauce, stir fry/sweet and sour sauce, BBQ sauce, seasoning blends etc.). Then I figured out how to use the recipe function in MFP and things got much easier. Here is how I do it...

    Title the recipe and enter all ingredients (accurately measured and weighed). Keep the serving set to 1 and save the recipe. Cook your meal. After the meal is finished, weigh the entire amount. Whatever the weight - that will be your new serving size. Update the recipe to reflect it. It will tell you how many calories per serving your recipe is. 1 serving will = 1 gram.

    For example, last night I made homemade beef ramen noodles. The recipe's final weight was 2128 grams (0 calories per serving). The bowl I ate was 243 grams, so that is the number of servings I entered when logging the meal. The calorie total for my bowl was 63.

    Hope this explains it how to use the recipe function!
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