Is it the same?

Floricienta
Floricienta Posts: 209
edited September 22 in Food and Nutrition
Hey everyone. What do you do when you make something at home and don't exactly know the calories. I have been entering the ingredients separately, for instance, 0.5 cup flour, 1 egg, 1 tbsp oil, butter, etc. Would that be the same as finding the whole 'item' listed/cooked? I cook for myself only and everything I make is just one serving. I feel kind of dumb asking this but I find weird to list '0.5 cup flour for dinner' :blushing: If someone could check my diary and see what I mean, I would really appreciate it!

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  • mariasheehan
    mariasheehan Posts: 335
    Have you tried using the recipe tool? If you make the same meals often you only need to put them in once and then you can use it over and over. It works the calories out for you when you enter all the ingredients for your recipe, then you'll only have one entry in your diary for your 'meal'. Is that what you mean? :-)
  • Chillem
    Chillem Posts: 40
    Even if we both would make the same meal, it would stil be different in calories, just because everyone has a different cooking style. So the way you list the ingredients is the most accurate way I think.
  • ljbouse
    ljbouse Posts: 129
    recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator. u can go to this sight and enter your recipes and it will calculate everything for you. then you can come back to MFP and create your own food and enter all the nutritional info. :smile:
  • mariasheehan
    mariasheehan Posts: 335
    oh sorry I see what you mean, as Chillem said, we all prepare and cook food differently, so the calories could differ greatly. I always enter everything I cook in the recipe tool so it's accurate.
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