Calculating Calories

jpeoples1177

I love to cook and bake new things all the time, and mostly from scratch, but I'm not sure how to calculate the calories of prepared foods. I've noticed with some labeled foods, like cereal vs. cereal w/milk, that the prepared calorie values are different than if you added the ingredients separately.

So do some of calories from certain ingredients (butter, oils, milk, sugar, eggs, flour, etc.) cook out of the foods or should the full uncooked value be counted? Or when I combine certain ingredients, milk+eggs, should I add the uncooked calorie values together or is there a formula to estimate the prepared calorie value?

Does anyone really know where I can find info like that?

Iron_Feline

Add each item to the recipe in its uncooked form

Don't over complicate it.

Ready2Rock206

Be sure you're using the recipe builder - it will do the hard work for you.