how to log a raost dinner

lauraaaaxo

I am visiting some family this weekend for two weeks and i know within that time I will be visiting my grandmothers house and she will be cooking roast dinner. I shall definitely be lowering the amount of potatoes and yorkshires on my plate in exchange for more vegetables but how an earth do i log a roast dinner?

From weighing food a lot recently i think i could make a rough estimate for the veggis but no idea how to go about the meat or the gravy with meat juices in etc.

Any ideass?

edit- roast not raost in the title!

marianne_s

Just do a search in the food database, and log each item....

That's what I do when I go to a Pub (Toby Carvery) for a roast dinner.

lauraaaaxo

Just do a search in the food database, and log each item....

That's what I do when I go to a Pub (Toby Carvery) for a roast dinner.

Yea but how an earth can i guess the amount of meat and gravy i'm eating plus all the meat juices go into the gravy etc thats going to be a lot of calories that i don't know how to account for:/

ronchap

I put evertthing into the recipe calculator and estimate the number of servings and it'll give you something that will get you close

marianne_s

Just do a search in the food database, and log each item....

That's what I do when I go to a Pub (Toby Carvery) for a roast dinner.

Yea but how an earth can i guess the amount of meat and gravy i'm eating plus all the meat juices go into the gravy etc thats going to be a lot of calories that i don't know how to account for:/

Well, since I'm used to weighing everything at home. I* pretty much know what 100 g of roast meat looks like.
The are all kinds of gravy & extras logged in the database, so I just log the nearest this & sometimes overestimate the portion sizes.

At the end of the day, none of the calorie values on products are completely accurate - they're very close estimates. So, all you really want is to have a good idea of how many calories you ate.