how do you figure nutrients for casseroles

mom23nuts

If you do a multi ingredient casserole or slow cooker dinner how do you figure the calories....the crustless pizza bake was low carb but many ingredients then cut into various portions.

I don't know where to begin

Afura

I add them under Food>Recipes. As a friend of mine complained, it can be a bit of a pain to figure it all out, but it's that or enter each item you had as portioned.
The harder part is figuring out the portions which was answered over here - Figuring out how much a serving size isand a few other threads as well.

fitdoesntquit

Seconded Afura's post above me. The recipe generator is my best friend when it comes to multi-ingredient recipes. My other best friend is my little digital kitchen scale which makes easy work of figuring out serving sizes. I jot it down on a white board as I go and then make up the entire recipe and split it into 3 servings: one for me, one for SO, and one for lunch the next day. The recipe generator is pretty detailed and give you your entire breakdown of nutrition information for each serving, so that's pretty awesome. And if you make that recipe again or wind up having the leftover serving for lunch, it's already saved to your recipes so you can just go back and add that into your diary whenever you eat it again.

Hope this helps! Do invest in a cheap kitchen scale. It's so worth it!

mom23nuts

I have the scale but never even considered the recipe generator. I was just writing it all down then figuring out my portion ...which is sort of the same but a lot of steps, plus I would do it all over again if I ate it as leftovers.

VeryKatie

I use the recipe builder.

tahxirez

The recipe builder is the best! Also if its a recipe you found online you can just input the url and it will auto import the ingredients for you to check. Do check the ingredients because it is certainly not perfect. This makes substitutions i.e. greek yogurt for sour cream a breeze!

mom23nuts

jessicagrottanelli wrote: »

The recipe builder is the best! Also if its a recipe you found online you can just input the url and it will auto import the ingredients for you to check. Do check the ingredients because it is certainly not perfect. This makes substitutions i.e. greek yogurt for sour cream a breeze!

Yup just used the url feature for the turkey pot pie my husband made...AWESOME. I needed to know about this so much sooner

kuranda10

use the recipe builder, but then weigh the entire dish* and enter that weight for the amount of servings. So a casserole may weigh 568g. Then serve up what you want and weigh that. So dinner tonight might be 178g (serves) and lunch might be 135, etc. or if you want 100g servings, the casserole would be 5.68 kg and a dinner might be 1.78 serves

This works great for soups/chili/stews

*minus the weight of the pan

Ws2016

Go here: abt.cm/25bbUsm

It's the Calorie Count site. I think it's easier to uae than recioe builder. You list all your ingedients and it gives you all the nutrition facts. Then you simply Add New Recipe in MFP