anyone else having trouble logging indian food

iwantwow

So i am really commited ,word hard try to eat clean ,the only problem is i cant log my food properly.Since i am from india and only eat home cook food and that is indian cuisine...most of the time i couldnt found the food item to log properly in my diary....and because of this i am having trouble managing my cal...any help

c_ansari

I ran into this issue after eating from an Indian restaurant. I just did some Googling and came across this that might help a bit: http://www.nutracheck.co.uk/calories/calories_in_takeaways/calories_in_indian_takeaway.html

rosebarnalice

Start weighing/ measuring the ingredients and start building your own recipes of things you eat regularly.

The spices aren't that important, but the main ingredients are-- protein, ghee, flour, veggies, oils, bread, etc.

concordancia

If you are making your own food, just put in the ingredients!

I have never had a problem finding a wide variety of Indian dishes in the database, though!

hookilau

I am Indo-Trinidadian and cook everything from scratch. Just put it in as a recipe. I have my curry chicken, chana, dosti roti....literally everything in my recipes you should've seen the look on my mum's face when I told her that her sada roti was 185 calories per serving

click on food, then go to the tab at the top of the page that says recipes, click on that, then click add recipe...easy peasy :drinker:

alexapatel

My husband is Indian so we eat it quite often. There are quite a few dishes on mfp but um sure there's a million variations. Usually when we eat Indian I make a good estimate.

iwantwow

food serve by restaurants isnt like home made food...frankly i cant even say its even indian....so the diff comes from local cuisine...the kind of food i make at home...i can find similar things at mfp but not exactly same....but thanks everyone i will try using all your advice.....and mfp says that wheat chapati(roti) are around 50 cal each ...did u say 180?