Analyzing a certain recipe

Ok, so maybe someone can help me.  I make this casserole and it entails 3 chicken breasts, 4 cans of cream of broccoli soup, and 1 stalk of broccoli.  When I put this into the recipe analyzer it says that one or more of the items weight or size couldn't be found and to basically redo the recipe.  Any advice?

Try to add your ingredients in measurements like cups or tablespoons, instead of cans or stalks. If you don't know the exact amount, get as close as you can. Hope that helps!

I did keep changing the reading of the chicken and broccoli and I still kept getting the same error.  As for the Broccoli soup I put it in ounces, and I don't think that one was the issue.  I am sure it was the broccoli and the chicken.

I did keep changing the reading of the chicken and broccoli and I still kept getting the same error.  As for the Broccoli soup I put it in ounces, and I don't think that one was the issue.  I am sure it was the broccoli and the chicken.

maybe you need to specify whether they were chopped, whole, purred? for example: 1 cup broccoli, chopped.

Thanks, I will have to try that and see if it works...BTW, I didn't mean to have so many reply posts there..oops!

Original Post by ashlee832002:

Ok, so maybe someone can help me.  I make this casserole and it entails 3 chicken breasts, 4 cans of cream of broccoli soup, and 1 stalk of broccoli.  When I put this into the recipe analyzer it says that one or more of the items weight or size couldn't be found and to basically redo the recipe.  Any advice?

It's probably the soup.  I just looked at several cream of broccoli soups on the site and amazingly someone finally made them workable by putting in the grams equivalent to 1/2 cup, making them usable now as ingredients.

Change your soup recipe line to grams:

1129 g (4 cans, 10 3/4 oz each) cream of broccoli soup [81681]

I tested this line.  It had no red or orange flags.  If it is not the soup you use, then change the item number in brackets to your product, or the one in the DB closest in fat and cals to your brand.

Thank you!  That absolutely was the problem!  I appreciate the help!

If you are still having a problem, send me a PM with the link to your recipe.  I'd be glad to have a look at it.  Often the problem is with the unit of measure on canned ingredients.  If it's "serving" then there's not a lot that can be done, but it might just be a matter of finding a similar item to enter instead.