How to figure out calories in a home cooked meal

mrslondon

So I am making lasagna tonight and I want to know how to add the calories into my diary? it would be kind of difficult to do the individual ingredients, as i am truly making it from scratch, making the cheese sauce and everything

pumpkin11

If you are making everything from scratch it's even easier, you know exactly how much of everything is going into it. Juts create a recipe, input all the ingredients, portions per recipe, and it will work it out.

melleyd

Go to recipes, add all the ingredients and how many servings and waalah!, you will have your calorie count.

melissa0001

Under the food tab click on recipes and develope your own recipe and then determine how many servings it makes. I use it all the time!

clahut

Hi,

There is an option to enter recipes on here - I do that for everything I cook at home. It means that if I cook something often, all I have to do is add a portion.

If you click on the Food tab, you should be able to see 'Recipes' in the options just below it - just to the left of 'Settings'

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woja9640

If you click on the food tab, then click on the link that recipes. Then click on the recipe counter.

You can then figure out the calories of your own personal recipe.


Hope this helps.

kym117

Hi, I also do a lot of home cooking and I know that it can be very time consuming to enter every single ingredient but it the most accurate way to record food and know the nutritional values of what you eat also once it is entered you need never enter it again!

mrslondon

Thanks everyone!!

Picola1984

I know there is the tool on here to calculate the calorie content of a serving of food, but what math would you use to calculate the calories for 100g of the recipe.

For example, total weight of recipe is 515grams. The total calorie content is 426kcal. So how would I work out what is in 100g, so I can use that as portions?

BBadHarley

:yawn:

brower47

Go to recipes, add all the ingredients and how many serving and waalah!, you will have your calorie count.

I do this and then weigh the final product. I enter the serving size as one gram. Then I measure out my serving size and enter the number of grams as the number of servings.

100 grams = 100 servings = how many calories you're eating

Easy peazy.