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nutrition in homemade cookies

daisydarling
daisydarling Posts: 44 Member
edited January 8 in Food and Nutrition
Hi,
I made a new cookie and it has calories etc listed on the bottom of the receipe. Is there a way it can be used on the food diary?
Daisydarling
I have the ingredients and want add them so I can enter them as a new item

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  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    In my experience, you have three options...

    1) search the food database using the name of the cookie. You don't say where you got the recipe from but it may also help to include the name of the recipe book you used if it's well known...like Better Homes & Garden's snickerdoodles. If you get some options, check the nutritional info of the listing to make sure it matches what your recipe shows.

    2) add the recipe to your MFP recipe book. It takes a little time but isn't too painful and will be there as long as you want it to be. This may actually be the most accurate way because you may have used slightly different brands of items than the person who made the recipe and calculated the nutritional info. There shouldn't be a huge difference though...

    3) quick add calories. My mother is also on MFP so when I go to visit her and she's made something I don't usually have, I'll just quick add the calories that her recipe entry shows.
  • daisydarling
    daisydarling Posts: 44 Member
    Hi,
    Thank's for the suggestions, but my hubby don't like them so I am giving them away. It was from a womens day magazine.
    Daisydarling
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