How to count calories when using a recipie.

klabritz
klabritz Posts: 17
edited September 18 in Recipes
Well, counting calories is easy when I am eating ready-made food. The nutritional information is right there on the box! It is also relatively easy if I stick to single item/ingredient foods (i.e., one 4 oz. baked skinless chicken breast - a snap!). What happens when I make a complete dish, however? How is everyone determining the caloric and other nutritional content of the servings? I suppose looking up the information for each ingredient and then entering each one separately as a "food" on the daily intake list is possible, but I don't think it is practical. Please let me know what you are doing out there! Thanks!

Oops! I mean RECIPE!

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  • klabritz
    klabritz Posts: 17
    Well, counting calories is easy when I am eating ready-made food. The nutritional information is right there on the box! It is also relatively easy if I stick to single item/ingredient foods (i.e., one 4 oz. baked skinless chicken breast - a snap!). What happens when I make a complete dish, however? How is everyone determining the caloric and other nutritional content of the servings? I suppose looking up the information for each ingredient and then entering each one separately as a "food" on the daily intake list is possible, but I don't think it is practical. Please let me know what you are doing out there! Thanks!

    Oops! I mean RECIPE!
  • lotusfromthemud
    lotusfromthemud Posts: 5,335 Member
    at sparkpeople.com, there is a fabulous recipe calculator.

    :flowerforyou:
  • mildrede40
    mildrede40 Posts: 159
    http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp

    You :bigsmile: are so right this calculator is great!!! Thanks
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