figure out calories

vickymanning10
vickymanning10 Posts: 2
in Food and Nutrition
How do u know the calories for homemade meals,and soup

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  • fittiephd
    fittiephd Posts: 608 Member
    Best way is to look at the recipe you made and then go to the "recipes" tab under "food" and add in all the ingredients like the recipe says, and how many servings the recipe says. Then you save it and just add one "serving" to your diary!

    If someone else made it, it's hard to tell exactly but I'd just guess. Like if it's a corn chowder or chicken noodle soup, just search homemade chicken noodle soup in the database and use that. It's not exact but it's close.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Since everything is really by weight (grams of carbs, prot, fat has so many calories, and nutrition labels), and cups are used as estimates to weight, follow the above suggestion with a tweak.

    Weigh the empty pot first.
    Cook your food, weigh the pot and food now.
    Subtract.

    Now you know the weight of the food. When you create that recipe, you can tweak the servings to hit the calorie count you'd like a meal to be, and then divide the weight by servings.

    Then serve up the weight you need.

    Suggestion, record the weight's in the recipe, total, and serving size of course.

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