calories in homemade food?

Dare2Believe
Dare2Believe Posts: 140 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Most of the food I make is homemade casseroles, stews, etc. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to break down the nutritional value in a recipe in order to find out the amount of calories, etc that is in it?

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  • 135gratitude
    135gratitude Posts: 364
    http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

    This link, is BY FAR, my favourite for calculating recipes. You literally just type in the ingredients, and it will figure it all out!

    I hope you find it helpful!
    :flowerforyou:
    Betty
  • jillianarnould
    jillianarnould Posts: 17
    Thank you so much for sharing that.... I've been doing it the hard way and adding it all up myself!!!
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    Thank you so much for sharing that.... I've been doing it the hard way and adding it all up myself!!!

    Me too--sometimes that took longer than actually making the meal :tongue:
  • rtmama
    rtmama Posts: 403 Member
    I use this one:

    http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp

    I'll have to check out the one at about.com to compare!
  • 135gratitude
    135gratitude Posts: 364
    Glad this was helpful - I LOVE this tool!

    For me, it was a real eye opener as to the perils of "estimating".
    :flowerforyou:
  • Dare2Believe
    Dare2Believe Posts: 140 Member
    Thanks, I will check them out.
  • maurierose
    maurierose Posts: 574 Member
    I also like this recipe calculator:

    http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp

    Sounds similar - you add the ingredients for your homemade recipe, tell it how many "servings" it made, and it tells you all of the nutritional info per serving. The nice thing about this particular site is that you can set up a free account that saves your recipes to share, re-use later, etc. :o) If you know EXACTLY what you want to add and use the "all these words" radio button, it filters out a LOT of junk that you don't need to see. (i.e. if you leave it as is, and put "asparagus", it may come up with asparagus soup, pasta with asparagus, etc... but if you put "raw asparagus" it will show ONLY those options to choose from. )

    I'll have to try the one at caloriecount too!

    :smile: :flowerforyou:
  • talrcat
    talrcat Posts: 97 Member
    bump for future reference
  • jillianarnould
    jillianarnould Posts: 17
    http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

    This link, is BY FAR, my favourite for calculating recipes. You literally just type in the ingredients, and it will figure it all out!

    I hope you find it helpful!
    :flowerforyou:
    Betty

    I was so excited that I decided to play around with some of the recipes I already knew and several times the calories reported for certain items were under/over. So make sure to check!!!
  • 135gratitude
    135gratitude Posts: 364
    http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

    This link, is BY FAR, my favourite for calculating recipes. You literally just type in the ingredients, and it will figure it all out!

    I hope you find it helpful!
    :flowerforyou:
    Betty

    I was so excited that I decided to play around with some of the recipes I already knew and several times the calories reported for certain items were under/over. So make sure to check!!!

    My only word of caution on this would be that if you enter something the program does not recognize, it will STILL calculate the recipe, but will flag the missing inredient, which for the first little while I did not notice.

    Other than missing the little flag, I have found the recipes to be perfectly accurate.
    :flowerforyou:
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    Glad this was helpful - I LOVE this tool!

    For me, it was a real eye opener as to the perils of "estimating".
    :flowerforyou:

    I only did one so far, but I am quite pleased with myself :bigsmile: --if this site is accurate, my "estimate" was accurate almost to the calorie.
  • Dive_Girl
    Dive_Girl Posts: 247 Member
    OMG you read my mind! I was thinking of posting this very same subject this morning! Thank you so much for the link, very helpful.
  • cherie2304
    cherie2304 Posts: 632 Member
    Bump! :smile:
  • kimberjones
    kimberjones Posts: 155
    Most of what I cook is homemade too and the sparkpeople website has been INCREDIBLY helpful to me! You can name the recipe whatever you want so when you're looking for one you can just search for the keyword to pull up one that you have already made when you use that same recipe again on here. Sparkpeople is a free site and you can save your recipes so you can re-create them just like you did before or you can make it, tweak it, and re-enter it under another recipe.

    It's a wonderful helpful tool!

    :flowerforyou:
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