The Easiest Way to Track a Recipe in @MyfitnessPal

I used to get super frustrated with tracking recipes in MyFitnessPal.

I hated making the whole dish, then trying to figure out how many servings were in it.

It seemed like I always had to divide all the portions up (especially with soup) and make them “pre-packaged” in their own container to get it right.

Until I discovered this method.

This method changes everything, and I found it by reading Lilie Eats and Tells blog.

Here’s the steps to making tracking in MyFitnessPal so much easier when cooking with a recipe…

• Open MyFitnessPal ( I usually enter recipes on my desktop)

• Click “Food”

• Click “Recipes”

• If you are using a recipe from the web, you can copy/paste the URL and click “Import Recipe.”

• Make sure the ingredients actually match up for what MyFitnessPal matches them to accurately (you can adjust this if you notice something isn’t right).

• Now…meanwhile, cook up your soup, or whatever it is you are making, and when you are done get out your kitchen food scale, and place an empty bowl (large enough to hold the soup) on it, and zero the scale to gram measurements (after the bowl is on it).

• If the amount of soup weighs for example 8000 grams, write this down, as you will enter it into the servings for your recipe in MyFitnessPal.

• In MyFitnessPal recipe import, enter the servings to be however much the soup weighed in the bowl (e.g. 8000 grams would be the serving if that’s how much it weighed).

This is life changing now because if it’s a recipe you use all the time, now it’s saved and logged, and however many grams you actually want to eat (e.g. if one day you want 300 grams of soup and the next day you want 500 grams of soup), then when you go to log that soup for the day, you can adjust the serving for how many grams you want to eat, and it will in turn adjust your calories, and macros for you. No more having to divide everything into it’s own container.

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M