Help with calorie count for home cooked meal

stv1520
stv1520 Posts: 199 Member
in Food and Nutrition
The wife and I made a beef stew in the slow cooker yesterday. It was great, but I'm trying to figure out the best way of coming up with a total calorie count. I had what amounted to a cup and a half for my portion. How do I go about counting the calories of that? The ones already on mfp varied wildly in their estimates. So now what? Thanks

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  • Idontcareyoupick
    Idontcareyoupick Posts: 2,854 Member
    Use the recipe builder
  • stv1520
    stv1520 Posts: 199 Member
    Idontcareyoupick wrote: »
    Use the recipe builder

    Is that an app?
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    No, it's one of the site features. From the Food tab, click on "recipes" (Note: I'm on desktop. If you're using the phone app, it may be slightly different.)
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    if you are making from scratch i would use the recipe builder...now that its done and eaten - i would look at the various calorie counts and pick one that seems to be within the average of all of them
  • stv1520
    stv1520 Posts: 199 Member
    Thanks for the ideas. The recipe builder helped a lot as well as the nutritional builder.

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