Gluten-Free cooking/baking and calorie counting

bbontheb

I can't have wheat . Making it very hard to find things to eat. I have seen some neat recipes like this:

glutenfreeonashoestring.com/gluten-free-cornmeal-crepes-with-taco-fillings/

How does one really figure out the calorie content of a recipe? Like the one listed? Find the same ingredients to make up the flour mix and divide by cups not grams? Ugh..

Any help appreciated.

maroonmango211

I put all my recipes both gluten free now and before I had to cut wheat out in the recipe creator on MFP it's great and has been a life saver for calorie counting and logging. It's also super easy to go back and alter recipes with different ingredients.

atypicalsmith

Get the book "101 Best Gluten-Free Foods" published by Publications International in Lincolnwood, IL 60712. I don't need gluten-free recipes, but have friends and church members (duh, also friends!) who do and this has been a wonderful tool for me.

Kalikel

There is a non-gluten flour. I'm not sure how well it works. Never tried it. But it's out there. My grocery store sticks it and it's not even a snazzy store.

shaumom

I have found a lot of help in going to this site: http://nutritiondata.self.com

If you get a free account, you can make up your own recipes and it will do the work for you. You enter in the amounts and then choose from their list of foods (you write the recipe, and then have the option to go through their huge database of foods and pick the closest food and amount to what the ingredient is and attach this to the recipe file), and it will do all the nutritional data for it.

Faithful_Chosen

Log the recipe into mfp as you make it. That is what I do. I am completely grain free. You can check out some of my recipes here: http://countingcalscuisine.tumblr.com

bbontheb

Thanks for all the tips! It feels very....overwhelming,lol.

lithezebra

Go to the recipe tab on MFP. You can enter a recipe manually, OR you can paste a URL in, and MFP will do it for you. You might need to trim out some extraneous details from the ingredients to get it work right. It's worked well for me, and you can message me if you have questions about using it.

I mix up my own gluten free flour blends, and it can be a bit of a pain to log it all. Sometimes I log my blends as some kind of GF flour that MFP has in its database, and then measure and log by weight, since flour is mostly carbohydrate and has about the same calories per unit of weight, regardless of what kind of flour it is.

There's at least one gluten free group on MFP if you're looking for more discussions and tips.

SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage

If it's something you make frequently, take the time to enter it as a recipe, ingredient by ingredient. Then you can just select it from your list.
Of if you're like me (slightly lazy and time-crunched), I just buy pre-packaged GF stuff. Udi's pizza? Yummmmm