Work out exactly how much to buy and cook for any number of people. Per-person serves, totals, visual guides, and waste-reducing tips — for Australian home cooks.
PickFresh's free Food Portion Calculator works out exactly how much of each ingredient you need to buy and cook for any number of people — adults, teens, kids and toddlers. Tell it what you are cooking, how many you are feeding, and how many meals you are planning, and it gives you a precise portion size per person plus the total to buy or cook. No more guessing at the pasta, no more bins full of leftover rice, and no more second trips to the shop.
Pick a category
Choose from carbs, vegetables, fruit, meat and fish, dairy, pulses, or eggs, nuts and oils. Tap the food you are planning to cook.
Set who you are feeding
Use the counters to add adults, teens, kids and toddlers. The calculator applies the right portion size for each age group automatically.
Set the number of meals
Planning one dinner or a week of lunches? Tell it how many meals you are cooking and the total scales instantly.
Read your result
See the per-person portion, the total to buy or cook, a visual guide so you do not need scales, and a waste-reducing tip.
The calculator shows both the single-serve size (so you know what one portion looks like) and the total amount to buy or cook for everyone. Useful at the supermarket and at the stove.
Children and toddlers eat less than adults. The calculator scales each portion down for the right age group using Australian Dietary Guidelines proportions, so you do not over-serve kids.
Every food comes with a visual guide — two handfuls of pasta, a deck-of-cards piece of meat, a cup of berries — so you can portion accurately even without kitchen scales.
Each food includes a short tip on storage and cooking so you do not buy or cook too much. Less wasted food means a smaller grocery bill and a lighter bin.
Set the number of meals from 1 to 30 and the total scales instantly. Plan a single dinner, a week of lunches, or a month of meal prep in seconds.
The calculator runs in your browser. No download, no account, no data collected. Use it on your phone in the aisle or on your laptop while writing a shopping list.
You pick a food, set how many adults, teens, kids and toddlers you are feeding, and set the number of meals. The calculator applies an age-appropriate portion for each person and adds them up, giving you both the per-person serving size and the total amount to buy or cook.