Tracking my green monster...please help!

EyesontheHourglass
EyesontheHourglass Posts: 2
edited September 20 in Food and Nutrition
Hi Folks,

I just had a question about tracking....

I just made a wonderful green monster in my blender which consists of 2 cups of baby spinach, 1 cup frozen strawberries, 1 cup of pineapple and 3 cups of Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze with some ice. It made 4 cups worth of a kind of green smoothy. I'm drinking one cup now. I have no idea how to account for this in the food tracker. I can't seem to find a recipe calculator on this site. Am I not looking hard enough? How would you input this and have it be accurate?

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  • Johnnyswife
    Johnnyswife Posts: 1,447 Member
    You could try putting in each ingrediant indivdualy....there are some recipie calculators out there, but not on this site yet.
  • spaul82478
    spaul82478 Posts: 709 Member
    Take each item that you put in the blender, add all the calories together, for instance 3 cups of almond breeze, 1 cup pineapple ect... add all the calories together and divide by 4 you should get the calories that way. then add it to your meals so you always have it handy.... ENJOY hte green monster
  • Lady_C_the_1st
    Lady_C_the_1st Posts: 208
    You can either input these things separately or you can go to sparkrecipes.com and use the recipe calculator there to work out calories. :-) xx
  • Lady_C_the_1st
    Lady_C_the_1st Posts: 208
    You can either input these things separately or you can go to sparkrecipes.com and use the recipe calculator there to work out calories. :-) xx
  • byHISstrength
    byHISstrength Posts: 984 Member
    I would add all the ingredients (full measurents), then divide your totals by the number of servings.

    Also, create it "my foods"
  • odessa_raven
    odessa_raven Posts: 31
    You can either input the individual ingredients and then perhaps save them as a meal, or figure it out yourself and enter it as a custom food item.
  • odessa_raven
    odessa_raven Posts: 31
    You can either input these things separately or you can go to sparkrecipes.com and use the recipe calculator there to work out calories. :-) xx

    That's a new resource to me, thanks!
  • Samantharose8akaDebbie
    Samantharose8akaDebbie Posts: 407 Member
    Sparkpeople recipe calculator.
  • MirandaJayne
    MirandaJayne Posts: 600 Member
    I have this same problem everyother morning! I usually just enter each ingreedient on it's own rather than creating a meal because you can't edit it right.

    Another option (but you still have to enter the ingredients 1 by 1 is to use this:

    http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

    Check out my blog to see what I add into my green monsters at www.mirandasjeans.blogspot.com (I really enjoyed the mango one from Tuesday).

    What is your favourite Green Monster?
  • jennylynn84
    jennylynn84 Posts: 659
    I usually create a meal of the entire food. So everything that you used. Enter it all in and save it as a meal. Then delete it all and go back and enter in that you ate .25 of that meal. It takes a while the first time, but if you ever cook it again, it makes it a lot easier. Also makes it easier to change your portions.

    Like if I make a homemade pizza and eat a quarter one time and a third the other. I have so many things in "my meals" it's ridiculous.
  • EyesontheHourglass
    EyesontheHourglass Posts: 2
    Wonderful tips guys! Thanks so much!!!! I've only made this green monster so far, but I'm sure I'll make more. For those going to try it though, add more strawberries. Mine needed it!
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