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ADJUSTING PORTIONS? These recipes are so versatile! ANY meal prep can be turned into a sing serve OR family sized meal. ANY single serve meal can be turned into a meal prep. All you need to do is adjust your number of portions, feel free to do that based on YOUR needs! MACROS DON'T MATCH WHAT'S LISTED? You are ALWAYS encourage to calculate macros of recipes based on ingredients/amounts YOU use, this will be most accurate. If you notice a large discrepancy, here are a few possible explanations: CHICKEN: 2 chicken tenderloins (2 oz each, total of 4 oz) = 100 calories. Some calorie trackers will suggest chicken tenderloins are 100 EACH. Make sure you're inputting the correct option RICE/PASTA: The calories will be very different for dry rice vs. cooked rice since rice expands when it's cooked (Same rule applies with pasta). Example: 1 cup dry/uncooked rice = 340 calories 1 cup COOKED rice =170 calories If you are logging 1/2 cup dry tice instead of 1/2 cup COOKED rice, the macros will be very different. The recipe will tell you whether the amount should be measured cooked or dry. SERVINGS/YIELDS: A YIELD is ee amount the recipe makes (example: yield = 24 cupcakes), The SERVING is the individual portion OR what the macros listed are for (example: serving = | cupcake). You can change your serving size based on YOUR needs, just note that you will need to adjust the macros for the serving amount you ate. EXAMPLE. (things can get tricky): imagine you made Soup or casserole. The yield says “6 servings", but the macros are listed for 1 serving. The most accurate method of portioning this out would be to WEIGH your entire batch of soup, then divide by 6. This would give you the weight for each individual serving. (To me, that’s a lot of work. | j prefer to “eyeball” out 6 bowls or portions as evenly as | can. Less accurate but more realistic for me). just QUICK MEASUREMENTS: 1.5 cups DRY penne pasta (barilla protein plus) = 5 oz dry 1 lb. lean beef = 16 oz (or four 4 oz. servings) 1/2 cup (cooked) lean ground beef = 1 serving, or 4 oz (before cooking) *l can typically get four 1/2 cup servings out of 1 Ib ground beef* 2 chicken tenderloins = 4 oz (generally)