How to count calories in my daily cooking food?

farhinajannat

I'm from Bangladesh. Rice is our main food. We take cooked vegetables, fishes and meats with rice. Our breakfast, lunch and dinner contains recipes that are different from other countries. We commonly use soybean or mustard oil, spices(such as turmaric, red pepper, cumin, coriander etc, as powder) and Onions, garlics in cooking all types of vegetables, fishes and meats. We also add potatoes in most of our regular recipes. So, how can i know how much calorie i'm taking? As i'm not finding the foods i take.

shadow2soul

If your making the food, use the recipe builder here on MFP. Manually enter all the ingredients you used and how much. Specify number of servings and it will tell you how many calories per serving.

farhinajannat

Thanks for your help.

MissMary75044

A small digital food scale is helpful. I cook at home a lot too and sometimes have to measure or weigh my portions to enter them on here. Things like rice will typically have the nutrition content listed and you can search for rice and then add how many grams or rice you had. If I can't find a dish I will try and break down what in the dish and add the ingredients separately. It's a bit of a process, but worth the effort. MFP will automatically save the foods you eat frequently and you can add foods to the database.

farhinajannat

MissMary75044 wrote: »

How to add the oil, when i deep fry something?

farhinajannat

Sorry i didn't understand the meaning of quote, i thought it is mentioning someone

MissMary75044

I believe you can search Chicken and it will give you options, like baked, fried, etc.

farhinajannat

http://allrecipes.co.in/recipe/12247/dale-r-bora-or-peeyaju--lentil-bora-.aspx
Can u plz see this recipe and tell me, how to add this, i ate three yesterday.

kkerryjean9

Take the link you gave ushttp://allrecipes.co.in/recipe/12247/dale-r-bora-or-peeyaju--lentil-bora-.aspx. go to recipes under food paste your link in the import recipe box . It will import ingredients and amounts save it and log it .

farhinajannat

Ok, thanks

farhinajannat

When i add a food, meal or recipe, can others see it in their search?

CyberTone

farhinajannat wrote: »

When i add a food, meal or recipe, can others see it in their search?

A user can only see their personal Food, Meal, and Recipe items in their own searches.

Please see these articles on the MFP Help pages...
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/11478-can-i-copy-meals-from-my-friends-
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/201687-how-do-i-make-my-diary-visible-to-other-users-
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/304780-can-i-share-recipes-with-other-users-

Mom_To_5

kkerryjean9 wrote: »

Take the link you gave ushttp://allrecipes.co.in/recipe/12247/dale-r-bora-or-peeyaju--lentil-bora-.aspx. go to recipes under food paste your link in the import recipe box . It will import ingredients and amounts save it and log it .

Thanks for this!! I never knew you could do that!! You just saved me so much time and effort!!

farhinajannat

CyberTone wrote: »

farhinajannat wrote: »

When i add a food, meal or recipe, can others see it in their search?

A user can only see their personal Food, Meal, and Recipe items in their own searches.

Please see these articles on the MFP Help pages...
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/11478-can-i-copy-meals-from-my-friends-
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/201687-how-do-i-make-my-diary-visible-to-other-users-
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/304780-can-i-share-recipes-with-other-users-

Thank u so much, it was helpful.