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I was just chatting with a friend re: how to easily divide recipes into 21 Day Fix® containers. Thought I’d share here. Hope it helps!
I use two different methods.
1) The method they use on pages 70 – 71 of the Eating Plan with the kit, the “Restaurant Food and Mom’s Favorites: The Fix Mixed Food Guide.” It’s simply to use the green container to measure the portion size and then check off the main ingredients like yellow for pasta, green for veggies, etc.
2) The method I use most is to container count everything that goes into a recipe and then just divide into equal portion sizes (the number of servings for the recipe) at the end. For example, for this recipe below, I might use 8 yellow of cooked pasta, 8 blues of cheese, 4 purples of tomato sauce, etc. Then, in the end, I just cut it into 8 equal servings and voila! I know each single serving has 1 yellow, 1 blue, 1/2 purple, etc.
Make sense? Need more tips? Check out 21 Day Fix Tips & Tricks Part One.
Enjoy! 🙂
THANK YOU! I have been scouring around for DAYS trying to figure out how on earth I can count the containers for my family recipes (I’m feeding myself, my H and our son). THANK YOU!
You are welcome, Beth!
Awesome! I was craving chicken curry with veggies and making myself crazy trying to figure out how to count it!!!! Thank you.
You’re welcome, Genie!!
OMG THANK YOU! Im feeding a family of 5 with me being the only one doing the “fix” but I was so confused on how to measure out my portions. Thanks a million now i get it. Might have to refer back to keep myself reminded
You’re so welcome, Natasha!! Enjoy!
Why doesn’t the tomato sauce also count as 8 purples? This is where I seem to get confused. For the recipe above it was broken down into 8 servings, so I understand 8 yellow and 8 blue; but how come only 1/2 purple?
The tomato sauce was only 4 purples. The servings are 8. So you divide 4 by 8 and get .5 per serving.
I just had a moment by reading this article. Light shining over my head…I FOUND YOU! Oh my God, I have been looking for someone who makes it super easy and everything I have read so far is great! thank you thank you thank you!…and by the way, you facebook group is awesome too!
Aww, this just made my week!! I’m so glad I was able to help you!
Thank you! I was actually not staying on track with 3 teenage boys I found myself over eating while trying to figure out the containers. You are the first to explain this so simple!!!