Counting Veggies

rickakey
rickakey Posts: 4 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hi All, Does anyone know a good way to track getting 300g veggies every day. I have been using MFP for a couple of years, and I am trying to establish a habit to get better carbs. Tracking veggie carbs in MFP would be a huge help for me.
Thanks !

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  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    I log my veg and count them up at the end of the day (out of curiosity sometimes, I always eat a lot so don't really need to count). Do you not have a scale?
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    Duh. My food scale is such an important fixture in my home I didn't even consider that the OP does not own one.
  • psychod787
    psychod787 Posts: 4,099 Member
    Not knowing your tdee... plain steamed non starchy veggies have a very low calorie density. You could use use the "cup" way. A serving of say, brocoli is about a handful. Its currently what I do, but I have a tdee of over 3000 at the moment, so if I am off a cup of non starchy veggies a say, say 40 calories... I don't really care.
  • rickakey
    rickakey Posts: 4 Member
    Thanks everyone !!! Sorry I want more explicit in my ask. I do count everything in grams now and weigh, just trying to report/log differently. I figured someone has probably tried to do something similar. @kimny72 I like your suggestion on notes or a veggie meal, I'll play around with those two ideas
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,109 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    rickakey wrote: »
    Hi All, Does anyone know a good way to track getting 300g veggies every day. I have been using MFP for a couple of years, and I am trying to establish a habit to get better carbs. Tracking veggie carbs in MFP would be a huge help for me.
    Thanks !

    There are a couple of different ways to interpret your question, so forgive us if some of the answers state something you already know!

    To know how many grams of any food you eat, you need to weigh out your serving and log it in grams.

    If you already knew that and were wondering if there is some way in the food log to see a running total of grams of veggies, no there's nothing built in. What you could do is use the notes section, and every time you log a veggie, add it to the running total you type there. Alternately, you could create a separate meal and call it "vegetables" and log all your veggies in that one meal. You'd still have to do the mental math (as there is no separate column for grams that would be totaled up for you) but it might be easier with them all in one place.

    Jerry-rigged solution with automatic counting:
    You could combine the separate veggies meal with your own "my food" entries for veggies where you use some field you don't normally care about and track (e.g., the polyunsaturated fats, which don't usually get filled in anyway) and put the grams there (e.g., make an entry for carrots with a serving size of 100 g, and put 100 as the number of polyunsat fat grams). Then change your diary display so it tracks polyunsaturated fats, but you'll know that for the foods logged in your veggies meal, that will really be the grams of vegetables that you ate. Then the total for polyunsaturated fats for that meal will be the total grams of veggies you ate that ate.

    It will be more work for a while to create all the new veggie entries. If you do this, please remember not to "share" the entries you create with other MFP users (it's a tick box on the page where you create new foods. the default is unticked, so just don't tick it.
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