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Homemade food How would you figure the calories ?

cheryl1727
cheryl1727 Posts: 8 Member
edited February 7 in Food and Nutrition
I made a chicken chili type meal and was wondering how do you guys normally figure calories on something like that ? I already threw out the cans and stuff with nutritional facts on it.

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  • TurtleTape
    TurtleTape Posts: 254 Member
    Next time, log in each item or put it in as a recipe. There's a recipes section that lets you input your own recipes and it divides it up by serving size for you, then you add as normal.
  • quiltlovinlisa
    quiltlovinlisa Posts: 1,710 Member
    Go to your food setting and click recipes. Input your recipe, input how many people your recipe serves and voila, no more guessing. :)
  • DonaGail
    DonaGail Posts: 190 Member
    I always wonder about that too, especially with soup/ chili type stuff. I know you add it all up and divide into portions, but is that it?
    I often try too find the closest thing to it listed already but that doesnt feel right either.
  • EmilyEmpowered
    EmilyEmpowered Posts: 650 Member
    I ALWAYS enter my foods as a recipe. Sometimes it is frustrating the first time you do it, but the next time you have the same meal everything is already figured out for you :)

    If you followed a recipe, you can look it up online for the nutritional info and entire it as "my foods" on here, too
  • grdnr03
    grdnr03 Posts: 547 Member
    I like the recipe feature for things I fix all the time, at any time you can adjust your ingredients amounts and still have a great calorie count.
  • lngrunert
    lngrunert Posts: 204 Member
    The recipes feature is one of the #1 reasons I was able to get on the MFP train. I love to cook, and without it I doubt I'd be tracking my calories nearly as well.
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