help me figure out these calories please

annastasia76

ok I tried entering all the info from last night's dinner, I thought it was a fairly light meal with the most calories being in the sausage but when i entered all the info intothe recipe calculator on spark people, it say the meal was 1600+, there is no way possible.

I make foil packets last night so I was trying to enter the info for one packet

3-3.5oz tilapia filet
2 oz napa cabbage
1 small slice of onion, I was guessing it was about .15 oz
2 oz john morrel sausage (I couldn't find this exact brand in there but it's 180 calories for a 2oz serving.

maybe somebody else can make this work because I must have done something wrong here

thank you in advance
Annastasia

shanerylee

seems as though thats the calories for all of it. You need to log in your portion and the cals will come down. like one portion of tilapia and then how much whether a cup, tsp, whatever of onion, etc. That way its logs an individual portion. After you do all this, go to remember meal and name it, that way when you eat it again you dont have to reinvent the wheel or should I say meal.

annastasia76

what I put in was the exacts of what I ate, not total for everybody. I may have to figure this out myself. I know that the sausage was 180, the fish was about 100, so how many calories in about 2 leaves of cabbage and a tiny slice of onion, can't be more than 60

SarahJoy_79

When I entered in all the ingredients you listed it gives me a total of 261 calories.

annastasia76

ok with pencil and paper I figured it out myself, it's 334.5 calories

MTGirl

You can always enter the ingredients separately on the food log here and come up with generally good numbers. 1600 for that was wild! 250 - 300 sounds better Sounds yummy too - was it?

annastasia76

thank you everybody for your help.

yes it was yummy, even my daughter who hates fish with a passion ate it willingly.