Dinner for 6 your table is ready?!

beautifulnow

OK so I have 4 kids...under 5 ....yeah I know I was busy:blushing: I have started putting everything I eat in here and it is GREAT! untill dinner...I am having problems tryiing to figure out the nutritional info on food I am cooking. Example: Spagetti...or meatloaf...there are alot of different things that go into making it and then once it is cooked how do you know how many calories are in a piece of the loaf or a scoop of spagetti?....anyone else with this problemo or just me? and how did you fix it?.....I soulnd like a teacher :happy:

beautifulnow

OK so I have 4 kids...under 5 ....yeah I know I was busy:blushing: I have started putting everything I eat in here and it is GREAT! untill dinner...I am having problems tryiing to figure out the nutritional info on food I am cooking. Example: Spagetti...or meatloaf...there are alot of different things that go into making it and then once it is cooked how do you know how many calories are in a piece of the loaf or a scoop of spagetti?....anyone else with this problemo or just me? and how did you fix it?.....I soulnd like a teacher :happy:

JennyGetsFit

Hi, beautiful,
since you are making it yourself, you can just measure everything you put into, say, spaghetti, and then divide into ## of portions. It is meticulous and it won't be precise, but then nothing is 100%. Spaghetti has a calories for a serving size on the box. Hope this helps.

metco89

try going to calorieding.com and see if they have the info u need it is a great supplemental site to this one for just that finding out calories and also how many are burned with different activity. hope it helps


sorry that is calorieking.com (not ding) :laugh:

heartshapdworld

PrincessLaundry just posed a great site (I have used it) to count the nutritional infomation in what you made. www.sparkpeople.com.

I wasn't sure how to drop her post in here as a link...

Mely

I have the same problem (and the same number of children). Whatever I make for them, like shaghetti for example, I measure some out for myself before adding anything I'm giving them that I don't want to eat (i.e. lots of cheese). Last night I made fish, brown rice and salad. Since all 3 were straight forward dishes, I just measure out my portions. Sometimes I just make something entirely different for myself since I know they won't like my food anyhow. If I make them macaroni & cheese (too difficult IMHO to figure out the calories), I'll make tofu and quinoa stir fry for myself.

Hope this helps.

arewethereyet

i make it a meal. I have my meatloaf in the system. I just pick it and divide it by my serving.