how do you know calories?

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alexsmama08
alexsmama08 Posts: 3 Member
edited January 20 in Food and Nutrition
OK so I've been having issues with knowing how to log what. Like I made chocolate chip banana bread homemade. I made it in a cake pan and I went to log it and everything is by slice and not ounce and since I didn't make it in a read pan I don't think it'll be the same amount or how to know what it equals in a slice. Its a inch thick (2 oz).

Also like tonight I'm taking a chicken breast, stuffing it with mozzarella cheese, dipping it in egg, browning it in a skillet and then baking it. How do I know how many calories that'd be?

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  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    Personally, I log the recipe in the recipe tab, along with how many servings it should be.
  • emtjmac
    emtjmac Posts: 1,320 Member
    It's going to be more work to eat like that but you can do it. You'll just have to sit down and figure out as best as possible how much egg is coating the chicken in terms of 1/4 of 1 egg or 1/2 of 1 egg or whatever and then the same thing with the bread crumbs and the cheese. Having a food scale will help. I don't make a lot of homemade things because I want to know exactly what I'm eating so I usually only eat things that I can easily quantify. When I'm eating well which hasn't been the case recently.
  • cmeiron
    cmeiron Posts: 1,599 Member
    Use the recipe builder under the food tab. Input all the individual ingredients, and then tell it how many servings (slices, pieces, g/oz etc.) the entire recipe makes. It will tell you the breakdown for a single serving, and you can add it to your food diary.
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    I met the dude through a mutual friend at a party.

    He was a little shy but he eventually warmed up to me.
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    I use the recipe builder on here, I love to cook and I enter all the ingredients in the recipe builder, then enter the amount of servings, so with your bread if you sliced it into 10 slices and 1 slice is a serving you would enter 10. Then enter it on your food journal from there.
  • queenbea77
    queenbea77 Posts: 407 Member
    I also create a recipe & divide it accordingly. Add all of your Choc. Chip ingredients & if u cut it into 8 PC then count it as 8 servings. Pan size shouldn't matter so long as your pieces are equal in size. For the chicken I would list all of the ingredients & just count calories for the whole egg or half if u throw away leftover raw egg. I'd "rather guesstimate" too high than too low

    Oh and if these are recipes you make often save them so you don't have to do this again. And share with database for others to try
  • thisismeraw
    thisismeraw Posts: 1,264 Member
    Personally, I log the recipe in the recipe tab, along with how many servings it should be.

    This! I use the recipe builder often as it's easiest to tell accurate calorie counts for things.

    The entries in the database for things you make are useless in my opinion. Other people have entered them and they could of use either different ingredients or different amounts that what you have made.

    Super easy and quick to make a recipe than enter how many servings it will be.
  • alexsmama08
    alexsmama08 Posts: 3 Member
    Thank you everybody :)
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