How do you measure calories in a recipe? (recipe included)

keobooks

I'm cooking this recipe right now: Lentil Soup with Lemon:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Lentil-Soup-with-Lemon/Detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e8=Quick Search&event10=1&e7=Home Page&soid=sr_results_p1i5

How do I track the calories in a recipe serving? I've added up the calories of the ingredients and divided by 3 (since 3 of us will be eating it) but I have no idea if I'm doing this right.

ChrisM8971

I'm cooking this recipe right now: Lentil Soup with Lemon:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Lentil-Soup-with-Lemon/Detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e8=Quick Search&event10=1&e7=Home Page&soid=sr_results_p1i5

How do I track the calories in a recipe serving? I've added up the calories of the ingredients and divided by 3 (since 3 of us will be eating it) but I have no idea if I'm doing this right.

Ok this is what I do but only because I used to go crazy with this sort of thing.

Calculate the calories by adding them up for all of the raw ingredients (also note the weight of the water added)
Cook your soup
Weigh the cooked soup
Divide the weight by 100 giving you a serving size of 100 g

Then weigh the soup into your bowl and the 100 g serving size makes it easy, if you have 123 g then its 1.23 servings

Long and complicated but the only way to be sure in my opinion :happy:

ETA you weigh the cooked soup because the weight often changes when cooked

Francl27

It's a pain in the butt.

Weigh everything, add all the recipes in the recipe tab. Cook it. When cooked, weigh it again, then enter that as the number of servings... so if it weighs 900g and you have 300g, you'll know it's really 1/3 of it.

It's really annoying with soups though...

tazhinshaw

I'm cooking this recipe right now: Lentil Soup with Lemon:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Lentil-Soup-with-Lemon/Detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e8=Quick Search&event10=1&e7=Home Page&soid=sr_results_p1i5

How do I track the calories in a recipe serving? I've added up the calories of the ingredients and divided by 3 (since 3 of us will be eating it) but I have no idea if I'm doing this right.

Ok this is what I do but only because I used to go crazy with this sort of thing.

Calculate the calories by adding them up for all of the raw ingredients (also note the weight of the water added)
Cook your soup
Weigh the cooked soup
Divide the weight by 100 giving you a serving size of 100 g

Then weigh the soup into your bowl and the 100 g serving size makes it easy, if you have 123 g then its 1.23 servings

Long and complicated but the only way to be sure in my opinion :happy:

ETA you weigh the cooked soup because the weight often changes when cooked

pooh thanks!

keobooks

I looked and just happened to find this exact recipe in the foods database. It even had ALL RECIPES at the front. I think I will use this for today and then check it for accuracy next time.