Logging Cooked Calories

raaynes

Hello everyone!

I'm wondering how you all log your cooked meals. Do you log the calories in the raw ingredients and take that total? Or should I be concerned that cooked foods may have more calories?

For example, I just made an egg-white omelette and logged all the raw calories (mushrooms, onion, yellow pepper, egg white) and the butter used to fry the omelette. It came to almost 200 calories. Is that accurate?

Thanks!

rubyjune27

For me it depends on whether I am going to eat the total amount or a portion. So if I was to make an omlette for only me, I would work out all of the ingredients raw including the cooking fat. But, if I was coking something like pasta, which I was sharing, I would work out how many calories a cooked portion I was going to eat. The calorie amount doesn't change during cooking, an egg raw or an egg cooked is the same, but if it is fried you need to add the fat. But, you do need to consider weight, so 1 oz pasta raw will still have the same cal cooked, but it will weigh more, so if you don't know what the raw ingredient weighed raw, you have to work out your calculations on the cooked weight. Hope that makes sense. The great thing about this application is that you can create your own recipes and work out the exact cals

BarackMeLikeAHurricane

I usually just log the raw ingredients. I made an awesome protein cookie recipe a few days ago and I plan on making it often so I just put that in the recipe section because I plan on making it often. I like that I can set it to however many servings it makes. For something like cookies, it's much easier because I can just log "one cookie" instead of logging each ingredient.