One Pot, several days

neumondschatten
neumondschatten Posts: 1 Member
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So I cook fresh every second to third day and then spread it through different meals. But I don´t really eat the same meal. But I have pasta and sauce onde day, the second I add Potato to the sauce and eat it with beans or something like that. How can I add my sace as one item but with all individual incredients instead of putting in everything seperately - that makes no sense since I wont use the rule of 3 for all ingredients to see how much exactly I need to add for the day. I am sure there Is a way. I just can´t find it.
(please be kind I am new and english is not my first language)

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  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,330 Member

    I can’t answer your actual question, but if you add them all separately, they show up in your recently added / used list and are really easy to find for the next day. Or you can log multiple days at once just to get it done.

  • herblovinmom
    herblovinmom Posts: 499 Member

    I would ‘create a recipe’ for my sauce. Add the individual ingredients and servings and then just log that in my diary with whatever else I’m eating it with.

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,841 Member

    I'm not sure I understand. I can think of a couple of possibilities. You could enter the ingredients of your sauce in the recipe builder. Then today you could enter the amount of sauce you used and the pasta. The next day you could enter the amount of sauce you use and the potato and beans individually.

    If you have a kitchen scale, you can weigh the sauce, call it as many servings as it weighs in grams. For instance 586 grams=586 servings. When you use it, weigh what you use and enter that many servings. For instance 120 grams = 120 servings. It takes a few days to get used to it, but it works! If you don't have a scale it works with cups or spoons, too.

    The other way would be to save the recipe somewhere else on your phone or computer, then when you use it, copy and paste it into MFP, then adjust the amounts. That would show all the ingredients each day you used it.

    I hope this helps.

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 873 Member
    edited June 9

    @neumondschatten

    @springlering62 shared a workaround one day...

    Enter the ingredients for your whole sauce in your food tracker just like you would for a meal or snack section,

    then save that as a meal (choose remember meal in quick tools) with a name, such as pasta sauce 4 cups or date it june pasta sauce 4 cups (something you will recognize.)

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    Then, later, you can find the original in the "meal tab", and choose/track a partial serving such as .25 for 1 cup or .125 for a half cup.

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    After, the partial serving posts to your tracker for an actual meal,

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    then you can change/adjust (add/delete) individual ingredients. I added the meat. I adjusted the quinoa (I used less in this batch.)

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    For ex, made a pot, posted 1/2 as .5 serving for lunch, adjusted the quinoa and added the petite sirloin to reflect the bowl I had for lunch.

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,734 Member

    Yeah, I do it the way springlering does it in that instructional post.

    Recipes aren't nearly as good as Meals…unless I'm not going to change the ingredients at all.

    I have a couple hundred meals saved now, though. It's become a bit unmanageable! At least I can use "Search" to find them if I've used a good descriptor…unlike Recipes, which can't be "searched" from the FOOD page (or anywhere, really.) Did I mention I don't like Recipes? I have like ten of them. . .for things I don't change.

  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,175 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48645651#Comment_48645651

    If you're using the app, you can search your recipes by clicking on "add food" under a meal in your diary and then under the "recipe" tab, just start typing the name of the recipe. It doesn't have to be the beginning of the name. If you know it was a stew but you're not certain whether you called it beef stew or meat and vegetable stew, just type stew, and it will bring up all of your recipes that include stew in the name.

    If you don't want to log it right now (say, you want to tweak a prior recipe by changing the protein or the veg), you can search from the foods, meals, and recipes links in the "more" menu from the app home page.

    I use "recipes" when I'm making a batch of something I'm going to eat over multiple meals and "meals" mostly when I'm going to eat it all in one meal and want to choose from a saved list of potential ingredients for something like a smoothie, oatmeal and mix-ins, salad, or customizable foods from places like Chipotle, Cafe Rio, etc.

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