Figuring out how to calculate calories? How?

ChrisCatMama
ChrisCatMama Posts: 1,038 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Ok I’m horrible at math in general. Some things I cook, I am unsure how many servings something is, like say mashed potatoes. Normally I add the ingredients to taste (in my case the vegan butter and soy milk). I know the serving size but not sure how to figure out the calories. Is there a trick to it? TIA! ☺️🧐🥔

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  • Jackie9003
    Jackie9003 Posts: 1,115 Member
    I use the recipe builder, log all the ingredients, weigh the final result then use that to weight out my portion.
  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
    It is best to weigh and measure everything. This way yuu know how much of everything you are putting into it. A lot of people struggle with just "eyeballing" portion sizes.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    ChrisCatMama wrote: »
    Ok I’m horrible at math in general. Some things I cook, I am unsure how many servings something is, like say mashed potatoes. Normally I add the ingredients to taste (in my case the vegan butter and soy milk). I know the serving size but not sure how to figure out the calories. Is there a trick to it? TIA! ☺️🧐🥔

    Weigh everything and put all the ingredients into the recipe builder here. If you took 1/5 of the recipe as a serving, then that's 20% of the calories. It doesn't matter what the typical serving is as much as how much of it you ate.
  • ChrisCatMama
    ChrisCatMama Posts: 1,038 Member
    Ok so basically I need a kitchen scale. Thanks guys! 🙂

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