Homemade meals

Susan1196

Since I've started tracking this week, it's been pretty easy for breakfast lunch and even snacks, but when it comes to dinner, all week I have made homemade healthy meals like beef stew, chicken pot pie, chicken Parmesan, I don't know how to calculate all the nutritional info, so I've just been guessing by finding something similar to select and hoping for the best

lemurcat12

Other people's recipes won't be comparable, probably. Best option for those kinds of meals is probably to use the recipe builder.

callsitlikeiseeit

learn to use the recipe builder. almost everything i make is in there now lolol

Tried30UserNames

I occasionally use the recipe builder, but I find it a bit annoying and very time consuming. I'm more likely to just write the calories and anything else I'm tracking directly on the recipe card or in the cookbook or even on a random piece of paper.

I look up the individual ingredients and calculate the calories for a whole recipe. Then I divide the calories by the number of portions I split the dish into. Or if I'm being really obsessive, I weigh the total completed recipe and then weigh the portion I eat to figure the calories.

wizzybeth

If the recipe is online you can easily import it into the recipe Builder. Less than 2 minutes I had the calories for this http://tinyurl.com/y9gtwfzg