Homemade bread

SuffolkSally

I just started making my own bread. How do I work out the calories in it? Is it as obvious as weighing the ingredients and working out their calorie content, then weighing the finished loaf and working out serving sizes, or does the baking process create changes to factor in? Sorry if it's a silly question - advice appreciated!

melsinct

I am also a bread baker. I put the ingredients of the loaf into the MFP recipe tool. Once the bread is baked, I weigh it on my kitchen scale. For instance, one round/rustic loaf I make weighs 46 ounces after baking. When I input the ingredients, the entire loaf has 2707 calories. I input the servings as 46, meaning a "serving" is one ounce (since my loaf weighed 46 ounces). If I carve off a 2 oz slice, I input that I ate 2 servings of the bread.

SuffolkSally

Oh OK great - that's what I sort of thought was the right thing but I wanted a bit of reassurance! Thanks for taking the time to reply.