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Cook for everyone.
Track your portion.
Breakfast porridge, a batch of soup or dinner for the family. Save the whole recipe in Sanvimo and log just the portion you ate.
From the whole dish to your plate.
Ingredients: before cooking
Weigh the foods as you add them, such as dry oats and raw apple. Choose the matching food state in the catalogue. Include oil, sauces and other additions.
Whole dish: after cooking
Weigh the finished food without the pot or bowl. Water evaporates or is absorbed, so the total ingredient weight cannot replace this measurement.
Your portion: what you eat
Serve yourself 200 g from an 800 g cooked dish to log a quarter of its calories and macros. Enter your portion weight and save the meal.
TRY IT HERE
One pot. Different portions.
An 800 g cooked dish → your 200 g portion. That is a quarter of the porridge. The example is already filled in: change either weight and compare the results. Ingredient quantities stay the same.
Everything in the pot
Before cooking- Rolled oats, dry
- 100 g
- Whole milk, 3.25% fat
- 400 g
- Apple, core removed
- 150 g
- Water
- 200 g
Apple includes the skin, with the core removed. Milk and water are measured in grams. Butter, sugar and other additions are not included.
Cook the oats with milk and water following the packet instructions, then mix in the chopped apple. The ingredients, including water, weigh 850 g before cooking. Suppose some water evaporates, leaving 800 g of porridge. Weigh your own finished dish without the pot: your result may differ.
Contains milk and oats. If you need to avoid gluten, check the oat packaging.
Worked example
In your portion
200 g
175kcal
- Protein
- 6.5 g
- Fat
- 4.9 g
- Carbs
- 26.9 g
Per 100 g of cooked food88 kcal
Whole recipe701 kcal
Recipe calories × portion weight ÷ cooked weight
701 × 200 ÷ 800 ≈ 175 kcal
This is a browser example. It does not log a meal or transfer to the app. Weights and ingredients are not sent to analytics.
Why cooked weight matters
This example adds up the ingredients’ calories and macros, then multiplies by your portion’s share of the finished dish. Adding or evaporating water changes the weight without adding calories. Discarding food or cooking liquid can change the nutrients too, so this calculation would need adjusting.
This is an estimate and assumes the ingredients are evenly distributed. It is less accurate for soup if one serving contains more broth and another more meat. For your own recipes, select the appropriate foods and check the values on the packaging.
Ingredient values: USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy. Checked on 7 October 2026. Calories are rounded to whole numbers and macros to 0.1 g.
YOUR RECIPES IN SANVIMO
Next time, your recipe is ready.
Save a familiar dish in the app. Check the ingredients and cooked weight next time you make it, then enter the portion you ate.
A no-cook example: yogurt bowl
Keep the ingredients
You won’t need to find every ingredient again each time you log the dish.
Update each batch
The dish may turn out thicker or thinner today. Enter its actual cooked weight.
Log the meal separately
Saving a recipe does not mean you ate it. Add your portion and save the meal to your diary.
Start with a dish you already make.
Open Sanvimo, build your recipe from its ingredients and log your first portion. Free includes up to 10 personal recipes.