Dee Dee Fen2's Journal, 04 Sep 22

I know! I was thinking yesterday that I wished there was a way to input a recipe so that it would figure out portions, etc, and I could then put that into my diary. 

I feel you! Sometimes my food diary has like ten items for one meal and only because I track every morsel in every homemade recipe! 

You can enter recipes. Hit the + as if you are going to enter food, scroll left to “Cookbook”. At the bottom hit “add a recipe”. 

@karen thanks. Found it just now, lol. Make things much easier. Nice. 

Karen, you are awesome! Thank you!!!! That is going to be a real game changer because I make about 98% of what I eat and keeping track of every little ingredient gets to be tiresome sometimes. I'm like you, Hungry, sometimes I've got 20 different things in because of making something at home. 

Oh, Dee Dee, I've been there. I just try to do my best and recognize that no matter how careful you try to be, tracking will never be 100% accurate. If it's something we repeat a lot, I enter it as a recipe, as karen suggested. If it's a one-off, I'll either try to record the most relevant ingredients or grab the nearest approximation out of the database. I figure if I try to be honest and get it in the ballpark, it'll have to be good enough. The upside is, you can control the nutritional content of home cooked food so much better than with processed 👍 

Karen... Lol. Yeah.i do that. I was just saying what a PAIN. 20 G of X and 33.2 g of Y. Etc etc. I'm wingin it. Haha. But yeah I also don't have a recipe. I just throw it all in .. Whatever fits in the pot! 😁 

Writingwyo...yeah. I also made ( home made) gluten free " Chinese" food yesterday. I didn't even record it. I only gained. .2 lbs today though. I'm sure it wasn't the healthiest but no where near if I bought it. Ex.. I made " fried rice" but it was actually white rice, agave nectar, gf soy sauce, fresh ginger, sesame seeds, egg yoke, green onions, garlic powder, and paresly. And that was JUST the rice! I'd be here all day if I measured every single 1/4 or 1/8 of a teaspoon of stuff I added. 

Dee Dee, you are a person after my own heart -- totally the way I cook! 🤣 My mom's operating instructions in the kitchen were, "so it looks right," and she was the one who taught me to cook. Most recipes are mere suggestions to me. I'm always adjusting to our tastes and to make it healthier -- more fiber, more spice, less salt, sugar and fat, using vegan substitutes. What I end up with doesn't bear a whole lot of resemblance to the original recipe  

Writingwyo... Exactly. My daughter asked me for my recipe for risotto. I eyeball it. I had to actually sit there and write everything down for her. Lol