Need help estimating calories in meal!

_lyndseybrooke_
_lyndseybrooke_ Posts: 2,561 Member
edited January 27 in Food and Nutrition
I'll be making a crock pot pasta dish this week and I have to clue how to figure out the calories in the dish because everything is mixed together. I'd love some help figuring out a rough estimate.

Here's the ingredients:

2 large boneless chicken breasts (1.67 lbs)
1 package 1/3 less fat Philadelphia cream cheese
1 packet zesty italian dressing seasoning
2 small cans (16 oz combined) reduced fat cream of chicken soup
1 box rotini pasta

All of this is mixed together in the crock pot. If I eat 1 cup, how many calories would you say I'd be taking in? It's about 2800-3000 calories altogether, but it makes a lot - I'm just not sure how much it makes exactly.

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  • heywithers
    heywithers Posts: 99 Member
    http://www.fitwatch.com/database/analyzer.php

    use this!!
  • QuilterInVA
    QuilterInVA Posts: 672 Member
    Your can enter it as a recipe on this site. You are going to have to come up with how much the recipe makes because there is no way of knowing how much a cup is if you don't know how many cups you made.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    Use the recipe builder. Then measure out how many cups it made and make that the number of servings. So 5 cups = 5 servings, and then the recipe builder will figure the calories for you.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    go to the foods tab, click on recipes, click on 'enter new recipe.'
  • Meredith8684
    Meredith8684 Posts: 681 Member
    Might be a good idea to measure the size of your crock pot first, then make sure you fill it up. That way you don't have to measure the food afterward, which would be much harder. I added water by the cup to my crock pot, so now I know how many cups of food there are when it's full, 3/4 full, etc.
  • SmilinSue12
    SmilinSue12 Posts: 71 Member
    http://www.fitwatch.com/database/analyzer.php

    use this!!

    Great tip! Thank you!!!
  • marsellient
    marsellient Posts: 591 Member
    If you have a food scale, another way to divide your recipe into servings is by weight. Put a bowl on your scale, hit "tare" and weigh the whole lot, then divide and weigh out your servings.
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