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I need help logging smoothies

kathystrauss1
kathystrauss1 Posts: 142 Member
edited February 6 in Food and Nutrition
I like making fruit and veggie smoothies but I've kind of stopped since I've been logging my food. I keep a wide variety of frozen fruits and veggies and just toss a bunch of them in and blend away. It would be a hassle to weigh each item separately. Would it be fairly accurate to just make a generic fruit calorie count and generic vegetable calorie count. I would just weigh all the fruit together and add it as a group. Ditto with the veggies. What number does anyone think would be good for an average?

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  • LaLa482
    LaLa482 Posts: 82 Member
    I like making fruit and veggie smoothies but I've kind of stopped since I've been logging my food. I keep a wide variety of frozen fruits and veggies and just toss a bunch of them in and blend away. It would be a hassle to weigh each item separately. Would it be fairly accurate to just make a generic fruit calorie count and generic vegetable calorie count. I would just weigh all the fruit together and add it as a group. Ditto with the veggies. What number does anyone think would be good for an average?

    With the exception of spinach and cucumbers , I pretty much always measure. I usually prep our smoothies at the beginning of the week in sandwich bags, after weighing so it is easier for us to log.

    I would imagine if I wasn't so concerned with my carb intake, I'd estimate.
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    Save the recipe in your recipe section and you never have to enter it again.
  • RunsSober
    RunsSober Posts: 38
    Save the recipe in your recipe section and you never have to enter it again.

    Yeah this is what I do. I have 4 or 5 smoothies that I make regularly that I have saved in my recipes. It is a little burdensome the first time you make it weighing everything and then finding it in database, but after that it's easy.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Just put the blender on your scale and write down the weight of the stuff you put in as you put it in. Takes one minute.
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