Home cooked Meals

letty241
letty241 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 18 in Getting Started
How do I go about adding these? I have no idea what their kilojoule or carb or fat percent is....

Heeeeelp!!

Keen to use app but I mainly make all meals

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  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    Go to Food, Recipes, and you can either input the recipe yourself or enter the URL if you use an online recipe. If you input your own, measure or weigh all your ingredients, enter the number of servings the recipe makes, and it will figure the percentages for you.
  • invitedchaos
    invitedchaos Posts: 45 Member
    edited May 2015
    If you create the recipes, it'll calculate all that for you from the ingredients (roughly, of course, not taking into consideration cooking methods) and you can tell it how many portions the recipe makes.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    I second the recipe builder. Works great for your home made recipes and for recipes you find online.
  • letty241
    letty241 Posts: 4 Member
    Ok thank you!

    That kind of takes out all spontaneity in the kitchen doesn't it : /
  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    letty241 wrote: »
    Ok thank you!

    That kind of takes out all spontaneity in the kitchen doesn't it : /

    Not necessarily! Just keep your scale handy, and enter ingredients as you go.
  • letty241
    letty241 Posts: 4 Member
    Yes you're right, just need to get in the habit.

    Do I need to add coffee and hot drinks
  • MonicaH0322
    MonicaH0322 Posts: 21 Member
    I don't bother - but I also don't add sugar or milk to anything so it all tends to be zero calorie :)
  • letty241
    letty241 Posts: 4 Member
    Thank you so much all.
    Now I've got no more questions to keep me procrastinating ....

    Oh wait - breast feeding! Does that change anything or is there anything on the app about it?
  • MonicaH0322
    MonicaH0322 Posts: 21 Member
    from people I know who have breast fed I've been told it burns calories, though as a mother to fur babies and not humans I'm not sure how to go about accounting for that. Doesn't look like you can select that as a profile option
  • DrLauraDVM16
    DrLauraDVM16 Posts: 64 Member
    So, I tried doing a couple of recipes, since I mostly cook my own meals from scratch and don't want to have to enter ALL the ingredients every time. When I get done, everything looks great, but when I try to add a serving to my diary, a 260 calorie serving only has 4 calories. WTH? Help!
  • johnnylakis
    johnnylakis Posts: 812 Member
    input the individual ingredients or try to find something similar
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