Creating a meal or a snack

rodneybrookshire8391
rodneybrookshire8391 Posts: 6 Member
in Food and Nutrition
If I wanted to create a meal or a snack using fresh fruits and vegetables, how can I do it as well as know how much is a serving, calories protein and everything else?

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  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,389 Member
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    If you make a "recipe," you can add the various ingredients to the recipe. Let's just pretend it's "Rodney's Fruity Salad." Let's say it contains:

    100 grams banana
    99 grams cosmic crisp apple
    207 grams strawberries
    50 grams grapes
    10 grams walnuts

    Mix all that up. You can weigh it again; it should now weigh 466 grams. Make the recipe for 466 servings.

    Then when you get ready to eat some, you can weigh it out. If you get 150 grams, that's 150 servings.

    Boom!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,622 Member
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    Good advice from mtaratoot, as always.

    I'd also say that if you simply start logging what you're eating now, that may be enlightening. It was for me. The first changes I need to make in my eating habits were a no-brainer: Once I knew the calorie "cost" of some of my routine foods, they didn't seem worth their calories in the quantities/frequencies I was eating them.

    Making those changes - chipping away at them, changing daily habits - got me to calorie goal in a fairly short time. Then I started experimenting with changes I could make to feel fuller on those calories, just by logging, paying attention to how I felt with different routines, and trying alternatives to see if I felt more full more of the time (or not).

    Once I was mostly feeling full except when a planned meal/snack was coming soon, I started chipping away at improving nutrition in the same way: Paying attention to my food logs, experimenting with pleasant/tolerable new tactics, turning the ones that helped into routine habits, etc.

    It doesn't have to be some giant revolutionary change all at once. If you start logging, and review your logs in light of how you feel, I predict you'll learn a lot about yourself and about food/calories/nutrition. A person can gradually get to a new set of reasonably-happy habits by doing that, in my experience.

    Best wishes!

    P.S. That approach is described in more detail here, if the idea appeals to you:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1

    That won't be perfect for everyone - no one method is - but it's one to consider.

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