Site that calculates nutrion/cals?
SuperAmie
Posts: 307 Member
Hey Friends,
Brains not working today... so I need some help please.
I made a couple meals (soups and stuff) and am looking for a site that, if I put in all the ingredients it will tell me the nutrional value and calories and all that? Per portion... does that exist?
I need something so then I can just create the meal here on MFP.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Brains not working today... so I need some help please.
I made a couple meals (soups and stuff) and am looking for a site that, if I put in all the ingredients it will tell me the nutrional value and calories and all that? Per portion... does that exist?
I need something so then I can just create the meal here on MFP.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!
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You can put it all into MPF, it will tell you the nutritional value of the dish, then you can manually divide it up into portions. I've done that several times.0
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I guess Im just being lazy. I could do that. I was just seeing if there was an easier site. Thank you
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You'll have to add all the ingredients regardless.
You'll get total nutrional info regardless.
One site will divide into portions for you, the other you do yourself based on what a serving size is for you.
You're too lazy to do that? Some basic division a handful of times? What if I let you use a calculator?0 -
You'll have to add all the ingredients regardless.
You'll get total nutrional info regardless.
One site will divide into portions for you, the other you do yourself based on what a serving size is for you.
You're too lazy to do that? Some basic division a handful of times? What if I let you use a calculator?
Wow thanks. No need for the sarcasm.
..and this is why I stay away from forums.0 -
Don't even know how to answer. Sorry but your question is asking for rudeness0
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You'll have to add all the ingredients regardless.
You'll get total nutrional info regardless.
One site will divide into portions for you, the other you do yourself based on what a serving size is for you.
You're too lazy to do that? Some basic division a handful of times? What if I let you use a calculator?
Wow thanks. No need for the sarcasm.
..and this is why I stay away from forums.
Come on, you said you were too lazy to enter in all of the ingredients into this site. He just pointed out that you will have to do that in another site too - there's just one more step of division.0 -
You'll have to add all the ingredients regardless.
You'll get total nutrional info regardless.
One site will divide into portions for you, the other you do yourself based on what a serving size is for you.
You're too lazy to do that? Some basic division a handful of times? What if I let you use a calculator?
Wow thanks. No need for the sarcasm.
..and this is why I stay away from forums.
OK, but what are you really hoping for? Say such a site does exist (which it probably does). Is it going to arbitrarily assign a portion size? Your soup... is 1 cup a serving? And if so, is that what you actually eat as a serving?
I make my own chili. I sure as hell don't eat 3/4 of a cup or whatever most sites/places/companies would probably consider a meal. I make my own meatloaf. Again, a 1" slice seems to be the typical serving size. Not for me. A serving is 1/4 of the loaf. Being able to control your own serving size, while requiring a hair more work one time up front, is far more convenient (IMO) every time I log that food.0 -
Um. You are on a site that can calculate all of that for you. Instead of taking the time to search for another site or starting a thread about it, you could have everything entered for a recipe by now....0
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http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/box
Click green "enter new recipe" button on right side (including number of servings, so you don't even have to math).
Short of hiring someone else to do it for you, this is as easy as it's going to get.0 -
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/box
Click green "enter new recipe" button on right side (including number of servings, so you don't even have to math).
Short of hiring someone else to do it for you, this is as easy as it's going to get.
Thank you I didnt know MFP could do this and I was playing around and found out. Thank you though! 0 -
You can do it here, create a recipe.0
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http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/box
Click green "enter new recipe" button on right side (including number of servings, so you don't even have to math).
Short of hiring someone else to do it for you, this is as easy as it's going to get.
Thank you I didnt know MFP could do this and I was playing around and found out. Thank you though!
It's a little-known feature of MFP. Many members have been here for years before stumbling upon it. It has its issues, no doubt, and has (or at least used to have) some quirkiness especially when you modified your existing recipes, but it's better than entering each of the ingredients separately each and doing math...especially if you have an arsenal of home-cooked meals that you use frequently (as most people do).0 -
yes there is this one site called myfitnesspal. you add in all the ingredients you use for the recipe, if you can't find the ingredients then you can even add it yourself to the data base. then you put how many servings it makes so it gives you all the information per serving and for the whole recipe.
smh...some people :noway:0 -
I need to make this as a suggestion, but I'll state it here first. I will say that adding a new recipe is tedious. It would be nicer if you could add many items at once. Not search for the ground turkey, add it, then search the onion, add it, then search the bell pepper, add it, etc. It would be cool if there was as stock 8 boxes where you could click on the box, search the item, select it, and then without the page refreshing click on the next box and repeat the process.
I can't help it; I'm a software engineer and I see a way the process could be made more user friendly and efficient. With that said... I do take the time to enter my recipes into the MFP site with what servings sizes I want for them.0 -
I recommend investing in a magic wand...just wave it over your soup or stew or casserole or whatever and you will magically know exactly what the nutritional values are without having to actually do any value inputs. There a bit pricey, but totally worth it...
c'mon...how could any site possibly give you the nutritional information of some homemade concoction without you having to input a list of ingredients, amounts, or how many cups, etc the recipe makes. Internetz are awesome, but they're not magics...0 -
I need to make this as a suggestion, but I'll state it here first. I will say that adding a new recipe is tedious. It would be nicer if you could add many items at once. Not search for the ground turkey, add it, then search the onion, add it, then search the bell pepper, add it, etc. It would be cool if there was as stock 8 boxes where you could click on the box, search the item, select it, and then without the page refreshing click on the next box and repeat the process.
I can't help it; I'm a software engineer and I see a way the process could be made more user friendly and efficient. With that said... I do take the time to enter my recipes into the MFP site with what servings sizes I want for them.
Oh, great googly moogly ^this...please, MFP, do ^this.
(Well, that and the other dozen similar suggestions that have been out there for years that would make MFP more awesome.)0 -
smh...some people :noway:
"some people?"
To which people specifically were you referring?0 -
...You can put it all into MPF, it will tell you the nutritional value of the dish, then you can manually divide it up into portions. I've done that several times.
You'll have to add all the ingredients regardless.
You'll get total nutrional info regardless.
One site will divide into portions for you, the other you do yourself based on what a serving size is for you.
You're too lazy to do that? Some basic division a handful of times? What if I let you use a calculator?
Wow thanks. No need for the sarcasm.
..and this is why I stay away from forums.
OK, but what are you really hoping for? Say such a site does exist (which it probably does). Is it going to arbitrarily assign a portion size? Your soup... is 1 cup a serving? And if so, is that what you actually eat as a serving?
I make my own chili. I sure as hell don't eat 3/4 of a cup or whatever most sites/places/companies would probably consider a meal. I make my own meatloaf. Again, a 1" slice seems to be the typical serving size. Not for me. A serving is 1/4 of the loaf. Being able to control your own serving size, while requiring a hair more work one time up front, is far more convenient (IMO) every time I log that food.
It sounded to me like she didn't know about the recipe's feature, and thought she would have to count all this through her diary (which is a pain and I've done it before finding the recipe's feature) and if you had simply specified in your first post that you could do this in the recipe feature and also write in the number of servings you want in the recipe, all of this negativity would have been avoided.
Don't assume that everyone knows the ins and outs of the website, and give precise answers instead of 'oh this is obvious, you're so dumb' type statements. Everyone would be much happier 0 -
...You can put it all into MPF, it will tell you the nutritional value of the dish, then you can manually divide it up into portions. I've done that several times.
You'll have to add all the ingredients regardless.
You'll get total nutrional info regardless.
One site will divide into portions for you, the other you do yourself based on what a serving size is for you.
You're too lazy to do that? Some basic division a handful of times? What if I let you use a calculator?
Wow thanks. No need for the sarcasm.
..and this is why I stay away from forums.
OK, but what are you really hoping for? Say such a site does exist (which it probably does). Is it going to arbitrarily assign a portion size? Your soup... is 1 cup a serving? And if so, is that what you actually eat as a serving?
I make my own chili. I sure as hell don't eat 3/4 of a cup or whatever most sites/places/companies would probably consider a meal. I make my own meatloaf. Again, a 1" slice seems to be the typical serving size. Not for me. A serving is 1/4 of the loaf. Being able to control your own serving size, while requiring a hair more work one time up front, is far more convenient (IMO) every time I log that food.
It sounded to me like she didn't know about the recipe's feature, and thought she would have to count all this through her diary (which is a pain and I've done it before finding the recipe's feature) and if you had simply specified in your first post that you could do this in the recipe feature and also write in the number of servings you want in the recipe, all of this negativity would have been avoided.
Don't assume that everyone knows the ins and outs of the website, and give precise answers instead of 'oh this is obvious, you're so dumb' type statements. Everyone would be much happier
I didn't know you could do it either. I manage all mine through meals. I've yet to build a recipe. So it appears you're the one assuming everyone knows everything.
And someone's ALWAYS going to be unhappy.
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p.s. I sometimes go back in the recipe and change the portion sizes. For example, if I freeze some, sometimes it's in bigger containers than others, so I change my recipe accordingly in order to log.
I don't know if this changes my past entries, but I'm not so worried about that since I never look at my food diary further back then for that week.0 -
p.s. I sometimes go back in the recipe and change the portion sizes. For example, if I freeze some, sometimes it's in bigger containers than others, so I change my recipe accordingly in order to log.
I don't know if this changes my past entries, but I'm not so worried about that since I never look at my food diary further back then for that week.
I believe it no longer changes past entries when you modify an existing recipe.0 -
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p.s. I sometimes go back in the recipe and change the portion sizes. For example, if I freeze some, sometimes it's in bigger containers than others, so I change my recipe accordingly in order to log.
I don't know if this changes my past entries, but I'm not so worried about that since I never look at my food diary further back then for that week.
I believe it no longer changes past entries when you modify an existing recipe.
Thanks, I'll have to test that out later.0 -
you can create a recipe on the phone app as well and if it is something that comes with a barcode then you can scan it in. on the phone app you cannot make changes to the recipe once it is saved but you can go back on the website on a computer and edit it. i don't understand what the big fuss is about adding ingredients one at a time. are people seriously that lazy? i know we all have busy lives but it really does not take that long to add your ingredients and create a recipe. i work full time and take classes as well and have many pages of recipes created. oh well. hope this helps though so you can add your stuff in with minimal effort if you scan it on your smart phone, but there is some effort involved still, sorry.0
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p.s. I sometimes go back in the recipe and change the portion sizes. For example, if I freeze some, sometimes it's in bigger containers than others, so I change my recipe accordingly in order to log.
I don't know if this changes my past entries, but I'm not so worried about that since I never look at my food diary further back then for that week.
I believe it no longer changes past entries when you modify an existing recipe.
Thanks, I'll have to test that out later.
it does not change anything in past entries, only when you start adding the new changed recipe will it reflect the changes0 -
smh...some people :noway:
"some people?"
To which people specifically were you referring?
to the people who are too damn lazy to log ingredients to create a recipe. it's a miracle they had enough energy to make an account and post in a forum0 -
smh...some people :noway:
"some people?"
To which people specifically were you referring?
to the people who are too damn lazy to log ingredients to create a recipe. it's a miracle they had enough energy to make an account and post in a forum
And for the people who did not realize that the "recipe" feature was a place where they could build their own recipes in the log (and not something else like a collection of recipes)? Or are you just going to lump "unaware" into the same category as "too damn lazy"?
The way you flaunt your myopia is very...interesting.0 -
you can create a recipe on the phone app as well and if it is something that comes with a barcode then you can scan it in. on the phone app you cannot make changes to the recipe once it is saved but you can go back on the website on a computer and edit it. i don't understand what the big fuss is about adding ingredients one at a time. are people seriously that lazy? i know we all have busy lives but it really does not take that long to add your ingredients and create a recipe. i work full time and take classes as well and have many pages of recipes created. oh well. hope this helps though so you can add your stuff in with minimal effort if you scan it on your smart phone, but there is some effort involved still, sorry.
The bolded part above is untrue.
From now on, I will consider you as one of the "too damn lazy" people.0 -
Hey Friends,
Brains not working today... so I need some help please.
I made a couple meals (soups and stuff) and am looking for a site that, if I put in all the ingredients it will tell me the nutrional value and calories and all that? Per portion... does that exist?
I need something so then I can just create the meal here on MFP.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Hey - I had uses the recipe feature and then I discovered the "save meal" feature. I actually prefer that feature because it adds each item in separately so if you have substitutions you can easily add or subtract items in your daily log. I have been saving my popular meals more and more and like it way better.0 -
I think entering the number of grams as the number of servings makes most calculations of different size servings obsolete. I just weigh the serving that I am eating and the calories/protein etc is automatically calculated. For example, if my entire recipe weighs 1234 grams, there are 1234 servings. If my serving is 400 grams, that is what I enter for number of servings, bam all my macros are calculated. Next time I eat 365 grams, enter that as number of servings, and that is as much calculation I need to enter.p.s. I sometimes go back in the recipe and change the portion sizes. For example, if I freeze some, sometimes it's in bigger containers than others, so I change my recipe accordingly in order to log.
I don't know if this changes my past entries, but I'm not so worried about that since I never look at my food diary further back then for that week.0
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