Help with pasta sauce calories

itsjustme912

Any help will be much appreciated.

Ok so I’m very new to this counting calories and need to know if I’m calculating this correctly.
I’m making pasta sauce.
In the pot right now is:
33 gr onion= 13.2 calories
1 tbspn olive oil = 120 cal
15 oz tomato sauce=105 cal
2- 29 oz tomato purée = 260x2 cal (520)
2 cups water = 0 cal
Various spices that have no calorie count on the pkg

So I have a total calories of 759
And total oz of 89

759*89= 8.5 cal per ounce of sauce.

Is this correct?

Thank you

Lietchi

Those 89 ounces, is that the uncooked weight?
If so: your sauce will probably lose moisture while cooking. So weigh your finished sauce and then calculate based on that (same total number of calories).

AnnPT77

itsjustme912 wrote: »

Any help will be much appreciated.

Ok so I’m very new to this counting calories and need to know if I’m calculating this correctly.
I’m making pasta sauce.
In the pot right now is:
33 gr onion= 13.2 calories
1 tbspn olive oil = 120 cal
15 oz tomato sauce=105 cal
2- 29 oz tomato purée = 260x2 cal (520)
2 cups water = 0 cal
Various spices that have no calorie count on the pkg

So I have a total calories of 759
And total oz of 89

759*89= 8.5 cal per ounce of sauce.

Is this correct?

Thank you

If you use the recipe builder function in MFP, you can put in those ingredients, set the number of servings to the number of ounces in the *cooked* sauce (as Lietchi says), and MFP will do all the math for you. Then, when you eat some sauce, just put the number of ounces you serve yourself in your food log as the number of servings you ate, and it will figure it out.

Personally, I'd use grams rather than ounces as the serving count because grams are more precise on most food scales. (Most scales only show ounces/tenths, and an ounce has roughly 28 grams, so grams are more 'granualar' so more precise.) Also, I presume/hope when you're using ounces you're not mixing fluid ounces and weight ounces as you're calculating, because that's unclear from your post.

itsjustme912

Thank you. I’ll recalculate after it cooks just
To make sure.