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FLYNNGALS
12/7/07 12:03 A
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| Run a search on the site for 'serving size'. You'll find at least one article if not many that tell you the averages -- 4 oz of protein; 1 c raw veg; 1/2 c cooked veg, etc.
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| Is there an easy way to figure out the serving size? Like, for example, my mom made homemade chicken and dumpling soup for dinner, but I don't know how many it actually serves. This is what hinders my dieting. I never know how to do the homemade foods. Any help would be great!
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PEACHYCHEEKS
10/27/07 6:19 P
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| The "food grouping" area is a tab. Go to your nutrition tracking area, then hit the "add a food" button and a window will pop up (the window you use to add foods to your daily tracking) at the top of that window it there are two other tabs "favorites" where you can add foods you eat all the time or that aren't in the tracker, and "food groupings".
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| Where is the "food groupings" area??
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| I usually take the time to measure the final result of a recipe when I make it the first time. Since I always make it the same, I always know how many cups of sauce I get, or how many portions it makes... That way, if you eat only half a cup, or two cups, it's easy to enter...
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NOPLACELIKENOLA
10/17/07 11:02 A
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Well, I eat 4-5 ounces of chili at a time. I measure each serving as an ounce and I just do 4 or 5 "servings" when I track it. Because I'm not sure how many ounces I would eat at one time. You are right; it would be easier to calculate if I portioned it out rather than weighed, but I just don't eat the same amount every time.
See, my problem is if I add 16 oz meat, 16 oz V8, and 15 oz beans, I'm not sure that the resulting chili is 47 oz because of the liquid, and I don't really have an easy way to measure the whole result.
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PEACHYCHEEKS
10/16/07 7:35 P
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I just entered a recipe in the "food groupings" area and I knew it made 8 one cup servings so I entered the whole recipe then when I wanted to track I typed in .125 serving as I was eating 1/8th of the recipe. I think if you determined how many cups or ounces the recipe made, you could do the same thing. Does that answer your question. I think I know what you're getting at because you're not eating the whole recipe, you're eating a fraction or percentage of it so if it makes 16 ounces for instance, you would type in all the ingredients into the food grouping area, then your 1 ounce serving would be .0625 or 1/16 of the whole recipe.
Do you really only eat one ounce of chili? Isn't that like one bite? Or do you mean one cup? A cup is 8 ounces.
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NOPLACELIKENOLA
10/16/07 1:17 P
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I am hoping to be able to find someone here who knows what to do about this.
Okay, when I make chili, it's 1 lb meat, 1 can kidney beans (15 ounces), 16+ ounces V8. I use an ounce for serving size. When I calculate calories per serving size, can I just add up all the ounces (including the V8) and divide, or does the "weight" from the liquid not count, and if so, how do I calculate?
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