What do you do if a food isn't listed on MFP?

badboyhouse
badboyhouse Posts: 8
in Food and Nutrition
Take today for instance - I bought a baguette with cottage cheese in from a sandwich takeaway shop - it was freshly made. The baguette was a bit shorter than a foot long.

What's the best way of getting the calories for something like this?

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  • afia233
    afia233 Posts: 47 Member
    I litrally break it down into the component elements.

    so i had chicken salad for dinner

    half pepper,
    100g chicken Breast
    one cup green salad
    olive
    Spanish chicken sauce (on the chicken)
    etc

    It can get abit irritating doing this sometimes, but i am kinda religious about logging my stuff.....

    OR if you know how much roughly it is. just quick add em.
  • Topher1978
    Topher1978 Posts: 975 Member
    Yeah, I add it. I either make a recipe, or, if it is a premade food or restaurant food I will add it so that everyone can use it. I put ALL the info in a food when I add it myself and would aske that anyone that adds food please do the same, or feck off! Lazy azz mofos are worthless... sorry for the rant. I just hate when I add a food and it shows 362 calories bot 0 carbs 0 fat and 0 protein...
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    I just put what looks the closest from the database add a few exta just in case and call it done.
  • badboyhouse
    badboyhouse Posts: 8
    I just put what looks the closest from the database add a few exta just in case and call it done.

    This is what I've been doing. Glad I'm not missing out on anything.

    Cheers.
  • Cheri_Moves
    Cheri_Moves Posts: 625 Member
    a sandwich for example or a restaurant meal? I break it down... You will most likely find all the ingredients to any given food item in the database... that and guess as closely as possible... its the best you can do.
  • jesz124
    jesz124 Posts: 1,004 Member
    It must mean its calorie free and you can eat of much of it as you like :bigsmile:
  • courtneymal17
    courtneymal17 Posts: 672 Member
    I usually look on that place's website to see if they have nutrition info...if not I'll break it into parts and add those, or just find something close, guess, and add some calories to be 'safe'. I try not to be exactly at zero calories left anyways so I have a bit of wiggle room, particularly on days I have to guess
  • mazdauk
    mazdauk Posts: 1,380 Member
    I'm not religious on my carbs etc. I just need approx calories. Often I'm logging things at work so pardon me if I don't have packaging to hand!! Our canteen does a 1/2 baguette, (but its half a small baguette, maybe 4" long) so I log it as a cheese roll- no idea on nutritional info as there's none on the wrapper.

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