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Calorie count in...

airigirl
airigirl Posts: 8 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
How do I calculate the calories in a salad I made? I made a huge bowl with kale, iceburg, bell perrers, grape tomatoes. Mushrooms, sliced turkey, tuna, and walnuts.

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  • collarbonelove
    collarbonelove Posts: 2 Member
    What I do is try to imagine how much of the package or individual ingredient. So if you used half a head of lettuce I would search "head of ice burg lettuce" and you can change the sizes from there. You can create a recipe and put all of those items in the recipe for later use.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Log at those things in the amount you had. Sounds like you already made the salad so you'll have to estimate this time but in the future put your bowl on the scale, hit the tare button, add the kale, log it, hit the tare button, add the ice burg, log it, hit the tare button, add the peppers, log them, etc...
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Weigh each item as you put it on the plate...
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,356 Member
    The best way would be put the bowl you are mixing it in on a digital kitchen scale. Zero it out what is called Tare, and add eat of the ingredients to the bowl recording the weight, zeroing the scale between each ingredient, then adding the next repeating for each ingredient. Then log those ingredients by weigh and enjoy.
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