Figuring calories in recipes

EchoOfYourPast

I have alot of recipes that i would like to try and figure the calories...i can type them in and find out how many calories, but how do i figure out the number of servings. Alot of my recipes are huge that will feed a large family especially the soups which will make several days worth of meals.
Thanks,
San

nasja1984

I usually make a big vat of soup-adding a cup of this, then add to "my recipes"-"name of dish" and add the item description and amount. When I am done with my recipe, i divide it up evenly into tupperware type of containers by cupfuls. If I have 10 containers with 1 cup each, that is the number of servings. In the case of my "Healthy soup", I would have to look it up but it's only about 139 calories for a two cup portion. (lasagna would be done the same, just divided in pieces, etc)

EchoOfYourPast

Thanks, i guess i could measure it all out...maybe half the recipe 1st to make it easier?
San

LemonSnap

We make up the recipe recording all the nutritional values then weigh the finished product. We work in grams.

Divide, say, the number of calories by the number of grams, multiply that by 100 and you get the number of calories per hundred grams.

This is really handy for just ladling out soup or sauces and eating varying portion sizes of prepared meals.

For instance, last night I made a wok full of Singapore Noodles. All the ingredients added up to 879 calories and they weighed 1648g.

879 divided by 1648 = .53333

.53333 x 100 = 53.33 calories per 100g



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EchoOfYourPast

Lemonsnap,
Thank you, i appreciate it...that will make it much easier!
San

maygans

We make up the recipe recording all the nutritional values then weigh the finished product. We work in grams.

Divide, say, the number of calories by the number of grams, multiply that by 100 and you get the number of calories per hundred grams.

This is really handy for just ladling out soup or sauces and eating varying portion sizes of prepared meals.

For instance, last night I made a wok full of Singapore Noodles. All the ingredients added up to 879 calories and they weighed 1648g.

879 divided by 1648 = .53333

.53333 x 100 = 53.33 calories per 100g



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That's a really easy way to do it, I don't know why I never thought to measure it that way before! Then you can easily have whatever portion amount you want without having to worry about wildly inaccurate numbers.

NeuroticVirgo

We make up the recipe recording all the nutritional values then weigh the finished product. We work in grams.

Divide, say, the number of calories by the number of grams, multiply that by 100 and you get the number of calories per hundred grams.

This is really handy for just ladling out soup or sauces and eating varying portion sizes of prepared meals.

For instance, last night I made a wok full of Singapore Noodles. All the ingredients added up to 879 calories and they weighed 1648g.

879 divided by 1648 = .53333

.53333 x 100 = 53.33 calories per 100g



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I measure my recipes like this also, only instead of doing it by 100 grams I weigh the whole recipe and divide it by how many servings I "think" or want it to make. For soups, stews etc, I usually weigh out how many grams goes into 1 cup and then divide the total by that as well. Or for instance if I make a casserole, I know I'm going to divide it into 8 pieces etc, this lets me know "roughly" how much each piece should weigh instead of eyeballing it.