? on points when making up recipes
 

I'm making up a recipe and I just wanted to confirm something. To calculate the points, I add up all the points in the food and divide by the number of serving I want, right? For example, I'm making a casserole that uses chicken, rice, and beans. For a can of beans, I calculate the points for the whole can, not just one serving; I then do the same for all the other ingredients. Then when the food is done, i divide by the number of servings I want to serve.
I know that there are websites that do this for me, but CalorieCount.com is annoying for me. I type in everything just like they say, and then they tell me they've never heard of soy meat or something. It throws off the points.
Can anyone let me know if this sounds like a sound method?

You can do it one of three ways:

1) list the points per ingredient (that is like the whole can, or 2 cups flour or whatever), total it up and divide by the number of servings

or

2) list the calories/fat/fiber for each ingredient. Total up each category and divide each category by the number of servings then figure the points per serving (this is probably the most accurate hand method)

or

3) get a website or software site that you can enter the recipe and let it figure the nutritional information for you. I enjoy Mastercook but yeah sometimes the ingredients may not be listed by WHAT I am using and it is listed in a different way. Mastercook allows me to add ingredients to the database. Some people pay for e-tools or online and get the Recipe Builder on the W/W site.

Thanks for the tips! I'm going to look up mastercook:)

I like Mastercook too but I really need to get Splenda into my database for that program as I use it all the time and my edition of Mastercook is 5.0