Calories in this meal must be wrong?

LadyL2012

Today I made haddock fishcakes from the BBC Good Food website. The recipe said it served 2 and that each serving was 230kcals.

The recipe made 6 fishcakes. Do I assume that that is 230cals per fishcake? If so surely that then serves 6 and not 2? I find it hard to believe that 3 fishcakes (to serve 2) could only be 230cals.


Not only that but when I added the calories of the ingredients together and divided by 2, it came to over 500cals. Surely 260cals wouldn't be lost in cooking?

mcarter99

I would use your calcs. Web sites make mistakes and also can under-report to make it seem more special than it is. Good for you for questioning it! Nothing is lost in cooking.

emmabrackpool

if 6 fish cakes serves 2 then each serving is x3 fish cakes surely? Hard to say without seeing the ingredients and amounts in the recipe tho soz - adding up individually as you did does seem a good counter check tho

moe0303

Go with your calculations. It seems like something must be wrong with their numbers. Your reasoning is sound.

BTW, MFP has a recipe calculator tool that you can use for this as well.

LadyL2012

if 6 fish cakes serves 2 then each serving is x3 fish cakes surely? Hard to say without seeing the ingredients and amounts in the recipe tho soz - adding up individually as you did does seem a good counter check tho

The ingredients are:

1lb potatoes
one haddock fillet
2 eggs
handful of peas
4 tbsps milk
teaspoon low fat spread
seasoning

According to MFP that equals just over 1000cals, so approx 500per person.

Knew it seemed to good to be true. Going to use my calcs so as not to overeat.

TavistockToad

I would go with the cals you get when u create the recipe in here, not what the recipe says. I often find recipe cals are out.

Wilson336

If it serves 2 and there are 6 cakes....6 divided by 2 = 3, so each serving is 3 cakes. However, recipes tend to not always be accurate on the calorie count. I would add up the ingredients to be more accurate.

vjrose

Lol, I gave up on the recipe nutrients and started just putting everything in the recipe function, I have like 3 pages of recipes now, lol.

LadyL2012

Where is the recipe function on here?

moe0303

Lol, I gave up on the recipe nutrients and started just putting everything in the recipe function, I have like 3 pages of recipes now, lol.

It's under "Tools".

Here is a link:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/calculator