Logging Meal Recipe

[JAWoodie]

I entered a recipe for a homemade salad dressing, and set it up as a meal.  But when I click on it to add to my day, the whole recipe (for the bottle) appear, and there is no option to set up one serving (1 tsp).  How do you adjust the recipe to one serving, vs. the whole recipe?

[CarolS]

Here's how I've done it in the past:  I make up the recipe, weighing each ingredient that goes into it.  For illustration, let's say 100 grams of olive oil, 50 grams of basalmic vinegar, etc.  Weigh the total recipe (150 grams) and enter that with the total calorie count in your food record.

When you eat your salad dressing, enter the number of grams you consumed, say, 10 grams, and it will calculate the calories, sodium, etc., for you.   Does that make sense?  It's a bit cumbersome in the beginning, but it gets easier as you go along.

Cheers,

Carol

[Mb54]

It would be a lot easier if Fitbit would just improve their webpage a tad by adding a dropdown menu for the number of servings when we create a meal. It's been often requested but they have not done it yet. I bet their web programmer could add it in just a few minutes. Maybe we just need to request it LOUDER.  Hey Fitbit, did you hear? This would be a useful feature! Please add it.

[MMODPT]

I agree, I entered a grain free scone recipe, 8 servings, and I can't easily enter 1/8th of each ingredients. 1/8th of an egg? Really? I'm new to fitbit, but have used other food trackers, there should be a place to enter servings per recipe. 😞

[Raviv]

You don't need to enter 1/8 of each ingredient unless you just want to list a per serving amount.  I don't do that because my serving size will vary from meal to meal.  

Just enter the whole recipe and note however many grams.  Then, when you actually eat it, measure how  many grams you're eating at the moment.  It's that many grams on the dropdown menu when you add the food each time.

It's honestly more accurate that way anyway.