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Dupas1962
Dupas1962 Posts: 34 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Last question of the nignt. Lets talk about calories counting. I wonder if I am doing it right or not. Most of my meals are cook from scratch I try to avoid eating food from the can frequently. With that being said I wonder how can one determined what they consume when there is no blue print? How can I know how many calories a casserole has if we all don't cook alike and use the same ingredient. I try to record everything but I wonder if its being done the right way. For instance today I had scramble egg whites with bacon and mushrooms. In the research database it doesn't exist. In order words, I had to scanned everything ingredients that were used in this recipe in.order to track it. Question of the night is my method wrong?

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  • aquarabbit
    aquarabbit Posts: 1,622 Member
    Have you made your own recipes? I make most of my meals from scratch too and I just put in the recipe.
  • SkepticallyFit
    SkepticallyFit Posts: 71
    That's what the recipe calculator is for. You log all of the ingredients in the amounts that you measured and then choose how many servings it will be. The calculator will give you the nutrition facts per serving.
  • Dupas1962
    Dupas1962 Posts: 34 Member
    Yes, I make my own recipes but myfitnesspal database doesn't stretch far for people that are from the island.
  • herblackwings39
    herblackwings39 Posts: 3,930 Member
    If you enter it in your recipe section it will show up in the recipe tab on your food diary.
  • apachebat
    apachebat Posts: 119 Member
    You can create your own recipes and get the accurate nutrition facts from there. Just go to the "Food" tab and then click on "Recipes" and then hit the "enter new recipe" button. It's kind of a pain because you have to search the database for every ingredient of course, but it's handy. Once you have a recipe you can add it to your diary by going to "add food" and select the recipes tab or you can do it directly from your recipe box. You can also edit your recipes if you don't always make them the same way. Unfortunately, the only way to use one of your recipes as an ingredient in another one is to create the recipe, use the information to create a new food and then add it. I REALLY wish there was an easier fix for that.
  • SkepticallyFit
    SkepticallyFit Posts: 71
    Also, you can add food to the database whenever you want. I cook a lot of Ethiopian food and add them to the database whenever I can't find them. You can look up the nutrition facts elsewhere or break it down by the ingredients.
  • UrbanLotus
    UrbanLotus Posts: 1,163 Member
    Thats what you're supposed to do, enter things into the recipe builder.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    When I either can't find something in the MFP database OR there are too many entries and I don't know which to trust, I search at the following URL and will enter a new food myself:

    nutritiondata.self.com

    Their database kicks *kitten*! When I add something from there to MFP, I alway put the URL in the description for easier searching.

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