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How do you account for generic restaurant food

mkzara
mkzara Posts: 73 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
So I am a junkie for eating at different types of restaurants.

I love Thai food, have it once every week.

But the issue with something like Pad Thai or Pad See Ew is that I am never sure how to account for calories for these items.

It's not as if I am getting packaged items so I can just grab something like "Thai Noodles" from X-brand that a lot of the food listing consists of.

How do you guys go about measuring and accounting for this portion of your diet.

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  • WickedSpinSistr
    WickedSpinSistr Posts: 139 Member
    I typically will try to break down the ingredients in the meal and add them one by one, as best as I can manage. For something like Pad Thai I'd probably just Google to get an approximate number of calories and forgo inserting the rest of the nutritional information, but I might eat Pad Thai once a year, not once a week, so I wouldn't mind missing all the other info. I think a restaurant serving of Pad Thai has something like 900 calories.
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