How would you log a home-made soup or salad?

JuroNemo14

Hello lads,

So say, a relative cooks up a home-made soup, or slices some tomato, cucumber, olives, mozzarella, and a dressing on top. Do you log this by food seperate, or is there some estimate I could make (like, usually, a cup of tomato soup has around x calories, or most salads don't go above x calories)?

Amitysk

If you know the ingredients you can put into the recipe database. That should get you pretty close.

omma_to_3

I use the recipe builder all the time. Works great!

arabianhorselover

Good question. I've wondered about this, too.

52golfnut

I also use the recipe function - works great for me.

glin23

recipe function or ingredient by ingredient.

3laine75

i'd enter all the ingredients separately, work out your portion size, log then 'remember meal' in 'quick tools'.

RockinTerri

recipe function or ingredient by ingredient.

This. If it's something you have occasionally, I'd use the recipe builder. If it's more of a one time thing, ingredient by ingredient.

wistera

If I make it, definitely use the recipe builder. If it's homemade by someone else, I usually just find something in the database that looks similar and overestimate a little bit - a bit too lazy to input food by food, and it's not as if it's something I'll have regularly and really throw off my counts.

bluenoser67

Honestly...I just search the existing database and find something close as long as it doesn't seem too small a number so I'm not cheating.
I figure if I'm off here and there it's no big deal. It will even out.
Since I'm on a 1,000 cal/day deficit if I am off by 100 or 200 cal either way from day to day it will balance out to 7,000 cal over the course of a week anyway.
I already spend too much brain power on losing weight as it is. I find there is a lot less stress doing it this way.
Seems to be working so far. Down 13 lbs in 5 weeks.

queenbea77

I add my ingredients to the recipe builder that way I know the carbs, protein etc. Of course this isn't "exact" but it is close enough to what I need. I hesitate to use the "quick calories" because I like to know the macros. I also use the recipe builder when I'm making one of my standard meals (chili, shepherds pie, etc.). These are meals I've made forever and use all of the same ingredients.